Page 44 of Wild Ace

Straightening, I look down at her sprawled out on the table and her heavy eyes look back up at me with unfiltered wonder in them.

I lick my lips. “Thank you, dolcezza.” Lexi bobs her head in a lazy nod, and I smile. “Do you want to know why?”

She shakes her head and I step around the table. Tracing her jaw, I lean down and kiss the corner of her mouth and then whisper in her ear, “Thank you for giving me the pleasure of pleasing you.” She shivers. “I can’t wait to do it again. Maybe on our date tomorrow night.”

Lexi gasps and tugs at the hem of her dress, pushing me away to sit up. “I only agreed to that because you weren’t going to let me come otherwise.”

“Ah, ah, ah.” I shake my head. “It still counts. No takebacks. Now, if you’re not too spent” – I wink – “I’ll walk you to your car. I can always carry you, though. I’d love the chance to get you over my shoulder.”

Lexi’s eyes narrow. “You’d carry me over your shoulder through the casino for everyone to see?”

“Of course not. There’s a back way out of here that leads to the garage.”

“Of course there is,” she grumbles. “I can walk.”

“Hmm, I guess I didn’t do my job, then.”

Lexi slides down from the table and wobbles on weak legs, reaching back to brace herself on the table.

“I take that back,” I say close to her ear, twirling her long hair around my finger. “Just think… If you’re losing your balance now, I wonder how you’ll be after I fuck you.”

I kiss her neck and she gasps, pushing off the table to get away from me.

Smiling, I open the door for her and we walk in silence through the back halls that lead to the parking garage.

It comes in handy when you’ve worked a guy over for cheating and you don’t want a casino full of people to see him busted up and kicked out.

When we reach her car, I open the driver’s door for her and brace myself on the frame when she’s seated. “I’ll pick you up at your apartment tomorrow at six. Dress warm.”

Before she can argue or protest, I close her door and walk back the way I came, grabbing the briefcase I left behind in the holding room on the way to my office.

I pour myself a hefty glass of whiskey and take a large gulp, typing out a quick text to Lindsay to tell her to return to the deli in the morning, and then toss my phone on my desk.

Lexi’s sweet scent still lingers in my nose and I pull her thong from my pocket, bringing it to my face to breath her in.

I told her I was going to use them to fuck myself tonight, but I know it won’t do. I won’t be satisfied until I fuck her or she fucks me with that sassy mouth of hers.

I need her.

Which means a cold shower is all I have to look forward to tonight.

Chapter 15

Lexi

Damn Vinny.

Damn him and his sexy, talented mouth that had me an incoherent mess that gave him everything he wanted. I was too far gone to know any better.

I’m not used to being so out of control, and it scares me.

He says all the right things and it scares me that I believe him when he does. At least, I want to believe him.

Just like I want to see him again.

I want something for myself.

I want to feel something other than worry. For my nonno, the deli, my future, school. Everything.

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