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Dazed, I nod.

And then she's gone.

I throw myself at Miceli. "Thank you!"

"I want you to be happy, Róise."

Sudden emotion chokes my throat. "I am happy. With you."

Miceli's reaction to my words leaves us sweaty and messy.

Draped half over him, I trace a heart on his chest. His hand lands over mine and holds it in the center of the invisible heart.

I didn't think I could luck out and have what my parents did, but I'm starting to think that I should buy a LOTTO ticket.

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That night, Miceli tells me he wants to put a tracker on me. "All the women and children in our family are fitted with them."

"Is that why you got me the meeting with the agent, to make me compliant?" I ask suspiciously, not impressed by the everyone else is doing it line.

"If I wanted to make you compliant, I would drug you." Like you did your guards lies silent in the air between us. "I want your permission."

"And if I refuse to give it?"

"Don't."

"Do you have a tracker implanted on you?" Fair is fair, right?

"Do you really think having a record of where I go would be smart?"

I narrow my eyes at him, but he's got a point. "I guess not."

"This is for your safety and my sanity, me dolce fiore."

"No fair pulling out the Italian endearments," I grumble, but we all know I'm getting the tracker.

Which I do.

After three orgasms and gelato from my favorite shop on Long Island.

Chapter 71: MICELI

"What the fuck does this mean?" I bend over Brogan's desk and indicate the text I received from him the night before.

BS: Keep a close eye on our girl. GL still wants her to marry his lieutenant.

"What it says. Róise's grandfather is one of those old-school guys who thinks the fruit of his loins as he calls it, belongs to him." Brogan sounds fed up with the man.

My feelings are more violent. "That doesn't sound old school. It sounds psychotic."

"Whatever you call it, once the wedding happens, he won't be a problem anymore."

"You said the engagement would take care of it." Not that I trusted that it would.

But there has to be a reason Brogan is more worried now than he was right after we announced the engagement.

"I thought it would."

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