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“No!” He looks shocked. Poleaxed. Like he really never even considered the fact. “No, Lucia, I’m really not.”
“You’re not listening to me, Alessio.” My voice is hardening. My hands clench. “Yes, you really are. If you do this, you’re breaking up with me.” I pull both my lips in and bite. “Worse than that, you’re hiding behind your uncle, and getting him to land the blow.”
His eyebrows rise in a steeple, pleading, “It doesn’t have to be this way. Lucia. What we’ve had…”
Had…
“Now you’re not even listening to yourself. I cant believe that you’re doing this. To me. To us.”
His hand stretches out again. His face twists in a storm of anger and confusion.
“Listen…”
“No, you listen, Alessio.”
My chair scrapes as I stand up. I’ve had as much of this as I can take. My blood pulses, hard. My heart pounds.
Alessio stands to face me. “I just want to do what’s going to be best for the family.”
“Don’t try to give me that.” The smell of him near makes me want to rip his clothes. To shove him to the ground.
“The family and all of the families in the region.”
“Oh, right. You want to do all of this as a self-sacrificing public service. It’s putting back into the community. But on a big scale, right? Only, for the good of everyone, you will just have to take the hit, bear the burden, and be in charge.”
I have a raging urge to grip his hair. To slap him and jam my pussy in his face. I want to see his eyes as I saw my wet wings in his mouth.
His arrogant snarl rises to the surface. I want to sit on his head. He says, “How is that different from what you want?”
“It’s different because I know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it, Alessio.”
My panties are drenched. “I have the power in my hands, and I know how to use it. I have the strength to do it, and the guts and the ability to make it all work.”
I would give anything to hold him down and gush into his mouth. To watch his eyes when I do. I don’t have his size or his strength, but I have my rage, and that closes a lot of distance.
I tell him, “I am working for us, Alessio. For you and me. For the family. Bruno and Carlo and everybody in our little corner. But I am doing it because I want it. I’m not pretending it’s all for some greater good.”
We’re getting closer. I don’t know how. Or why.
I can’t stop. “Yes, I want the power. But it will do so much good for everyone. You don’t see that because you don’t want to see it. You have everything the way that you want it, and you don’t want anything to come along and upset your applecart.”
His eyelids dip. Then he looks back at me.
“I want the power, I don’t deny it. But it’s mine. It belongs to me. It’s my right.”
AT LAST.
He let it out. He’s told me the truth. Finally.
“There it is.” I hold his eyes with mine. Why couldn’t you have talked to me, Alessio? Why bury it all this time. “Why wait for this, Alessio?” my eyes are pleading with him. “Now the ground has cracked open between us.”
“No…”
“We were so tight. Now we’re on opposite sides of a canyon.”
CHAPTER NINETEEN
My Alessio is having secret negotiations. He’s plotting with someone else to take everything away from me. And he couldn’t even come to me and face me with it.
