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"They won't, Nico." I'd make sure of it. "No one gets to touch you but me."
I thoroughly enjoyed the soft flush that filled Nico's cheeks at my words. I pulled him closer so I could press a kiss to the top of his head. "Ah, cuore mio, we're going to have so much fun together."
And I couldn't wait until we got home and could start having that fun. I'd been waiting a very long time to have Nico.
I gratefully noted when the other guards joined our little convey headed to the villa. The two black SUVs passed us, swung around, and fell into line behind us.
Even though we were driving fast, I still pointed out several landmarks to Nico as we passed them. Once we had dealt with his family and I knew it was safe, I planned to take him to each and every one of them.
When the vehicles started to slow, I made a quick scan of the area. Nothing seemed out of place and my gut wasn't twisted, or at least not anymore twisted than it had been since I stepped off the airplane.
The gate opened and we rolled up the driveway.
I smiled at Nico's soft gasp.
"That's where we're going to live?"
"It is," I replied. "This villa has been in my family since the sixteen hundreds. My family owned the land before then, but that's when the main house was built."
"It's beautiful."
I'd always thought so.
"You think you'll like living here?"
Nico glanced up at me. "I'd live at the bottom of the ocean if it meant we got to be together."
God, that was a fucking fantastic answer.
It always amazed me how honest and free Nico was with his feelings when it came to me. I think that was one of the things that had drawn me to him in the very beginning.
My parents weren't bad people, but we were not close. They wanted nothing to do with the mafia life and I had idolized my grandfather when I was a child. I knew they loved me in their own way, but I doubted they understood me.
All of that had created a lot of distance between us. Because of that distance, I had become closed off to people until a perky little blond haired boy had come into my life. When he stared up at me with those mesmerizing crystal clear blue eyes and fluttering eyelashes, I knew I was sunk. Two years later I handed him my whole heart.
I had never regretted that decision.
I still didn't.
Chapter Ten
~ Nico ~
I was a little stunned at the opulence of place Luca said we were going to live in. He had explained that it was a villa, but this looked more like a palace to me. It was bigger than a city block.
"I'm supposed to be in charge of this place?" Pure doubt laced my voice. "How?"
It would be impossible.
Luca chuckled. "We have servants, remember?"
I was not reassured.
"How many people live here?"
"Me, you, my grandparents, the servants, and the guards. There are personal suites for other family members in case they come to visit, plus several guestrooms, but that's about it."
That was a lot of people.
