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"I didn't mean to read your messages," he says tautly. "But I want you to know that I meant it when I said you are safe with me. I will only be your husband in name. I give you my word."
I think I'm in shock again.
Because I've just realized that it's not my husband's word that I want but his body.
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Lorenzo's staff is so extraordinarily nice. And charmingly insistent that I dress up for my first dinner with their master. Honestly, all that's lacking is for Be My Guest to play in the background, and it would seem like we're roleplaying Beauty and the Beast.
Only...the Beast already looks like a prince.
So how else is he cursed?
Am I just reading too much into nothing?
Or is there something I'm missing?
"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING me?"
Lorenzo had just stepped out of the shower, and the first thing he saw was how his entire wardrobe had been ransacked.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
When Teo had suggested he dress up for dinner, Lorenzo had only given the older man a look.
Why the hell would he dress up in his own home?
Teo had simply nodded, and Lorenzo had thought that was the end of that.
But he was wrong, obviously.
Teo was no war hero for nothing, and the older man had easily won this battle by getting rid of his clothes.
Or almost all of it rather, except for his suit.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Teo knocked on the door. "Do you need anything, signore?"
Lorenzo flung the door open. "Damn you."
"You have ten minutes to dress up, signore."
"Is that another fucking threat?"
"Would you like me to play some music while waiting? Something like Fifth Dimension's Last Night I Couldn't Sleep—-"
"I'll be down in fucking five, damn you."
Teo allowed himself a smile. "Grazie, signore."
Lorenzo's teeth gritted against each other as Teo walked away, and he actually heard the older man start whistling.
And of course, it had to be that song about losing sleep, which Lorenzo wasn't guilty of.
He just happened to need only a few hours of sleep, but that didn't mean he had been nervous about meeting his wife.
Because he hadn't been.
