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‘Two times removed, my friend. As common as muck.’
‘Do you know where she is? I want to make sure she’s okay after last night.’ Not that I needed to lay eyes on her before they fell out of the bloody sockets.
‘Sure, I just loaned her a coat to go into the rose garden. It’s nippy out this morning. Let’s hope it warms up a little for the hunt tomorrow.’
‘Are you going to bid this year?’
‘If you don’t snap up that fine little fire bomb, then I might.’ Alfie met my eyes and let me know he was serious. He wouldn’t try to take Valentina from me, but if I discarded her, he’d happily scoop her up. The thought of her running from him through the woods, being caught and pinned beneath him as he fulfilled that fantasy for her, made me want to tear my friend’s dick off.
‘Noted,’ I said, rising to look at the garden through the window. The roses would wilt soon, with autumn quickly drawing in. Scanning the well-manicured lawns and pristine cut bushes, I spotted Valentina sitting on a bench, her legs tucked up into Alfie’s coat as she pulled it tight around her.
Alfie joined me, leaning his back against the wall and keeping his eyes on me.
‘You’re going to get yourself in trouble over this one.’
‘Already balls deep in it. But after this week, I’m going back to my life and going to pretend like it never happened.’
‘And what about her?’
‘She’s young. She’ll have fun. All she wants is someone to try some fantasies out with. It could never be anything more than a tumble in the sheets.’
‘I don’t think she’ll let you go that easily. She’s got that look they get. Stars in their eyes and hearts dancing about her pretty little cunt. She likes you.’
‘She barely even knows me. It’s just an infatuation. She needs someone her age, who is looking for what she wants,’ I said.
‘And what, pray tell, do you think she is looking for?’
‘Experimenting, fun, experiences. I’m not there anymore. I’m looking to settle down, to move on to the next page and fulfil my duties.’
‘To your dead arsehole of a father...’ I scowled at Alfie and he held up his hands. ‘It’s true. The only thing he cared about was being bigger than Harold Thompson, and look where that ended for them both. Six feet under.’
‘You took over from your dad,’ I pointed out, watching as Valentina tipped her face up to the morning sun.
‘Yeah, but I leave the bullshit serious stuff to other people. I focus on my first love.’
‘Well, I don’t have a decadent sex castle to keep me otherwise occupied.’
‘You’ve got a twenty-two-year-old practically begging for your cock, your own little sex demon, if I read her right. Who needs an entire castle full?’
‘You do.’
‘I do,’ Alfie said with a laugh. ‘What are you so afraid of? Go play with your shiny new toy.’
I’m afraid she’s going to blow my world to pieces.
Valentina looked up at me as I approached, the morning chill seeping around me as I smiled.
‘Morning.’
‘Good morning,’ she said, pulling the sleeves of her coat down over her fingers and wrapping her arms tighter around her.
‘I’m sorry about last night,’ I said. She narrowed her eyes and my stomach tightened.
‘Why are you sorry? Was I not pleasing enough?’ There was a hard edge to her voice that filled my chest with warning.
‘You were fucking magnificent, pretty girl. I’m sorry because I shouldn’t have crossed that boundary with you.’
‘I’m pretty sure I offered myself up on a plate, literally.’
