Once I filled out, started hitting the gym between college classes and work, I had more women than I could keep track of.
My mom always told me my eyes were the clincher. I had blue-gray eyes and dark hair, and she thought it was a killer combo.
But I was pretty sure it had more to do with my thick dick and my appetite for pussy.
Not that I’d even looked at another woman since I saw her.
My Lupina.
Ellie Maxwell was a fucking goddess.
She had a body I could get lost in. Hell, I fucking dreamed about it night after night.
Thighs I could wrap even my large hands around, breasts perfect for sucking, and an ass that would not quit.
Fuck.
One taste. That was all I’d had, but I was a goddamn addict now. Even putting in stupid long hours couldn’t stop my mind from drifting off at any given point.
The thing about it was I wanted her to come to me. To acknowledge this mutual attraction.
I wanted her to want me.
And yeah, I heard the Cheap Trick song in my head every fucking time I thought about it.
I mean, it went against the whole alpha male nature thing, right?
Like I knew everything in me was telling me to hunt her down and not give her a choice.
To make her my woman any way I could.
But that was too fucking close to how her soon-to-be-dead-if-I get-my-way ex treated her.
And I wouldn’t do that to Ellie.
Not now. Not ever.
But I couldn’t walk away either.
There was just something about her. Something untamed and wild behind her eyes. Something I recognized.
They said like attracts like, and I understood tenacity.
How else did the bastard son of a low level Bratva soldier reinvent himself the way I had?
I mean, come on. Even I had to admit, I had grit.
Yeah, I took my Hispanic stepfather’s name.
Hell yeah.
The man raised me, and I was proud to be a Ramirez. As for my sperm donor, well, that had been weighing heavily on my mind as of late.
I had yet to tell the Volkov brothers about our familial relationship. They didn’t know my birth father was their uncle, their father’s youngest brother whom I wasn’t sure they’d ever even met.
He’d come to America with the crew he was involved with. Knocked up my mother and left her before he got himself killed.
I suppose that was for the best. My mother knew his name, and that was pretty much all she knew about him.