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“Then why suggest it?” I bit out as I made my way towards her.
When I had escorted her into my office, all the men had been standing, and so not wanting her to feel inferior, I had placed her on my desk. Though she’d been sitting down, and the men had still towered over her, my desk was a place of significance, so sitting her on top of it had made a statement. I hadn’t been lying when I’d said that her position as my wife would come with a great amount of power.
“Because if I can help end this, then I want to,” she answered. “I don’t want to be looking over my shoulder all the time, Avgust. I don’t…as long as Nikel Ovchinnikov is running around loose, I don’t imagine that I’ll be resting easy.” She let out a deep sigh as she added, “I just…I just want my life back, Avgust. That’s it, that’s all. I just want my life back.”
“Well, you are not going to get it, vozlyublennaya,” I informed her. “However, you will not need to look over your shoulder as you continue on. You will be well protected, and so will your sister.”
Her blue eyes stared at me intently. “Even if I did agree to marry you, I do not want to be a prisoner, Avgust,” she said. “I want my life to have meaning, even if that means working at a gas station, restaurant, or bar. I have no desire to sit in this giant house all day, doing nothing.’
At that, I stepped in between her legs, then placed my hands on her hips, careful to avoid her injured leg. Coincidentally enough, Louie had chosen to brand her on the same leg that was still recovering from the cuff, so it really was a mess.
“Then give me babies,” I told her. “If you don’t want to be in this house alone and doing nothing, then give me babies, Samara. Give me as many as you want, and then stay home and raised them to not be assholes like the rest of us.”
She let out a hollow laugh. “You know just as well as I do that the first son that I give you will already start his bratva education before he even knows his alphabets.”
“That’s untrue,” I semi-lied. “I will not care if our firstborn is a son or daughter. They will both know the ways of the bratva, no matter their gender.”
“I’m serious, Avgust.”
“So am I, Samara,” I assured her.
“I can’t marry you,” she said, and it would bother me if her words mattered. “No matter what we had when we were younger, there’s still fifteen years between the kids that we were then and the adults that we are now. I don’t even know you, Avgust. I know nothing about you, except for who you are.”
“I’m the same person, vozlyublennaya,” I replied seriously. “’I’m just older.”
Her eyes began to well up a bit. “This isn’t the life that I wanted, Avgust. If it was, then I never would have ended things between us back then.”
Letting go of her hips, I cupped her face with both of my hands. “But do you want me?”
“Avgust, that’s not fair,” she whispered softly.
“Perhaps not,” I conceded. “However, I will do whatever it takes to make you my wife, and if I have to play dirty to make that happen, then I will. I will not let you go a third time, Samara.”
“This is happening too fast,” she said, still trying to hold on to her pride.
Removing my hands from her face, I placed them back on her hips as my face nuzzled her neck. “It’s not happening fast enough, baby.”
“You’re not playing fair again,” she said weakly, her head automatically tilting to the side.
“You’d lose respect for me if I played fair,” I pointed out.
Her hands grabbed onto my forearms as my lips tasted her skin. “Avgust…”
“I love you, Samara,” I told her. “I have always loved you, and I will always love you.” She let out a low moan as she tilted her head back to give me more access. “I loved you fifteen years ago, I love you now, and I will love you fifty years from now. I will love you for as long as there is breath in my lungs, and even then, I’ll be waiting for you in the afterlife.”
It was true.
From the moment that I first laid eyes on Samara, I couldn’t recall a time when I hadn’t loved her. While she claimed that we were moving too fast, had she not walked away from me fifteen years ago, we’d have at least five kids by now. Had I not let her go, we’d be celebrating our anniversaries, not picking out a wedding date.
Straightening, I looked down at her as I ordered, “Lay back.”
Those blue eyes of hers flared with dark need, but she wasn’t so far gone that she’d lost her senses. “The door, Avgust.”
“No one would dare to walk in here without permission,” I assured her.
“Not even Maksim?” she asked as my hands reached for the hem of her dress.
“While Maksim is allowed to enter freely, he knows better than to come in here while you are in here with me, vozlyublennaya,” I smirked. “Besides, he’d see my head between your legs, then immediately leave.”
