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“I love you so fuckin’ much, Giselle. I searched for you. And never gave up. Even when you did. You escaped Sergio’s,” his voice lowered, “and you still didn’t come back to me. You were pregnant with my baby, and you didn’t even call.”
I stopped breathing. This was one of the billion things we’d never discussed.
Why I hadn’t at least tried to call Carlo when I left Sergio’s. That had always stood between us like a large elephant. But he’d never come out and asked it plainly before.
I wiped my eyes and took a few deep breaths. And then I told him.
The truth.
“I wanted to keep you safe.”
Carlo interrupted me, “By keeping my son away from me? Were you ever going to tell me I had a child out there in the world? What if I hadn’t found you? Would I have to wait twenty years to find out I had a son?”
Carlo was so angry with me. In his eyes, I saw the hate he held for me. And it stabbed me right in the heart.
I shook my head vehemently. “No, Carlo. No, I was finding a way to get him to you. I wasn’t keeping him from you. I was giving him,” I slapped my hand on my heart, “to you.” I moved my hand to the middle of his chest. His heart beat at a fast pace under my hand. At that moment, I felt a connection with Carlo that I’d never felt before.
Carlo’s hand covered mine. “You were going to give me our son.”
I nodded through my tears. “Yes, Carlo.”
I saw his shoulders relax as he looked down at the floor. I could tell he was thinking hard about what I’d just told him.
When he finally looked up at me, he said, “You weren’t going to keep him. And raise him yourself?”
I closed my eyes and felt more tears run down my cheeks. I opened my eyes and said, “I knew I couldn’t keep two kids safe. Away from Sergio. It was hard enough when Dani was a baby. If it weren’t for Eve and her siblings, I could never have done it by myself. And I knew I couldn’t stay on the run with a toddler and a newborn baby. We’d be too easy to find.”
Suddenly, his hands grasped mine and held on tight. “You would have given up your son? To me?”
I nodded and squeezed his hands right back. “Our son. I knew he was a boy the second I found out I was pregnant.” I smiled through my tears. “And I knew that you’d raise him to be strong. Just like you are. And I knew you could keep him safe.” My voice was nearly a whisper. “If Dani and I weren’t around.”
I could practically see the turmoil spinning around inside his head. And I could feel it, too.After a minute, his hands cupped the sides of my face. “I can’t believe you.” His voice came out like sandpaper. “I cannot believe you.”
Then.
His lips crashed down on mine. Relief flooded my body. My hands touched his hard, muscular chest, and I felt the desire ooze out of him.
For me.
He still wanted me.
“Carlo, I love you. I didn’t leave you. I was only trying to keep you and everyone else safe from us. And I knew Sergio would be watching you. If you had Dani, then he’d kill you. He’d kill you both.”
He panted into my mouth as he answered me, “Shut up, Giselle.” His mouth touched mine, and he kissed me again.
Fiercely.
“I love you. I should have left earlier. So much earlier. I’ve always had to keep ahead of Sergio. It was the only way to keep Dani away from him.” It seemed like once I’d started telling him the truth, I couldn’t stop.
“Shut the fuck up, Giselle,” he muttered against my lips, forcing me to kiss him long and deep.
“I didn’t want to leave. I stayed too long. I put everyone in danger because I was selfish. I wanted to stay. You made leaving too hard.”
He pushed me back on the bed, and his fingers opened my robe. I moaned at the feel of his rough hands all over my body. It felt so incredibly good.
“I love you, Carlo. I love you so much. I didn’t want Sergio to target you. And now that he knows about you—it kills me. This is all my fault. If I’d left sooner, he never would have known I was here.”
He shoved his hands under my armpits and moved me higher on the bed. Then he settled between my legs. “Let’s get two things straight.” He pulled his boxer briefs down just enough, so his huge cock came bobbing out. He laid on top of me and lined his cock right at my heat. “You don’t ever bring up that sonofabitch when we’re in this bed. And secondly, I’ll forever carry the guilt of him kidnapping you and Dani out from under me. And even though it fucking kills me—I can understand why you wouldn’t come back here after you escaped.”
