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“Good morning,dormiglione[8].”
“How long was I out?”
“Only an hour.” I kissed him again. “It’s morning. Time to get me home or they might send out a search party.”
“Yeah, in a second.”
“Since when is it hard for you to wake up? You go to the gym at six in the morning.”
“It’s not, I just like waking up with you.”
God, this was torment. He was making an impossible situation a million times harder.
Looking down at him, I knew one thing – it didn’t matter where we’d end up, my heart would never recover from Salvatore Fiori. There won’t be anyone else like him.
“Don’t even think about getting handsy with me. I need to get home and my back hurts from sitting on the ground all night.”
“Isat on the ground, you sat on me.”
“Well, your chest is hard as a rock, so same thing.”
“Fine.” He got up, pulling me along. “Let’s go,Tesoro.”
I followed him in silence and climbed in the car. He held my hand the entire drive and I let him, memorizing the way his skin felt on mine, wordlessly vowing to never forget that feeling.
“I’ll stop here.” He said when we made it to the corner of my street. “The guards at your house are gonna change soon and they might be patrolling around.”
“Right.”
“Be good, Grazi. Don’t do anything stupid when I’m not around.”
“Kiss me.”
He pulled me to him over the console and filled my mouth with his commanding tongue, going as deep as he could. I was overwhelmed by the force radiating from him and when we broke it off, I caught his lip between my teeth. The bite was not meant to be playful and I tightened my jaw until I felt the taste of blood on my tongue.
Salvatore didn’t make a sound, but when I pulled back, he took his fist to his mouth to wipe the blood.
“Why so rough,Tesoro?”
“So they know you are mine.” I lied.
“They?”
“The women drooling over you.”
That mark was not for them, it was for me.My goodbye.
Chapter 7
I walked into the house to find it completely silent, no soul in sight. There were guards out by the gates and walking the grounds, but I couldn’t hear anyone. It was rare to see this place so peaceful, between all my associates and the medical staff that came in and out to look after my father.
Walking up the stairs, I took my hand to my nose and inhaled the last traces of Grazia’s sweet smell. I had to hop in the shower and whatever was left of it would fade until next time. Fuck if I wasn’t so damn tired of this shit. Every time… I had to let her go every damn time, drop her home, and pretend she wasn’t in my life and for what? The ego of an old man and the broken heart of another? I was sick of it.
I let the spray of the Turkish shower fall down on me and quiet the angry roar. There was always rumbling in my chest when Grazi was away – worry, longing, frustration, the lines between them got blurred. Grazia had a father, yes, and seven brothers that were not to be jerked around, but I couldn’t trust any of them to watch her – toprotecther – the way I would. We had enemies, maybe not here on the island, not in the borders of our city, but everywhere else. Our families were feared, but we were also hated. The underworld, the lawmen, the people that we screwed, they all wanted a piece of us. I didn’t trust anyone else to shelter Grazia from that.
I turned the water off and wrapped a towel around my middle, ready to jump in bed and let this day pass when I heard the polite knock on my door. I didn’t need to open it to know it was Totto. He was a butler in this house since before I was born. I could recognize the way he walks, breaths, or knocks at any time.
“What is it?” I asked through the cracked door and he looked at me with a solemn expression.
