Page 140 of His Cursed Heart

I open my eyes in alert at the assault. My vision meets my favorite green eyes and a tensed face that is ready to kill me on the spot. Everette brings my face close to his, breathing hard and irregular.

"You do that again and I'll fuck you hard with your head in the water until you faint. You understand?" I try to cover my gasp at his angry voice. His words make my pussy clench, almost begging him to fuck me underwater.

"You talk to me now?" I ask him with a raised eyebrow, my displeasure seeking out.

Everette smirks and his fist still in my hair, he lowers himself in the pool. His white shirt becomes transparent, his ripped muscles and tattoos on display. His other hand goes to his belt, unbuckling it to take off his suit pants.

I bite my lower lip at the sight of him, letting myself eye-fuck him. Everette sees me and he tugs my head back, forcing me to look up at him. He lowers his head until our lips are inches apart, throwing his soaked pants and shoes out of the pool.

"Did my little fox miss me?" He asks in a low voice, sending shivers down my body.

Fuck him and his control over my body. Yes, I've been like a wolf who lost his mate these days, but I hate how my body begs for him.

How my heart begs for him like he’s the only source

of its beating.

"Nah, it's been so quiet and peaceful without you." I say with a content smile, even though the lie feels heavy.

Everette growls and moves me until I'm in a corner of the pool, with him blocking every way out. I'm caged in his arms.

"Still lying I see," He whispers and massages my head where this fist was.

"It's not lying, it's a way of coping," I whisper back, tired of hiding my feelings.

Everette frowns, and I sign deeply. "I needed a way to convince myself that I don't need you. That this pull that attracts me to you it's just my imagination."

"And it worked?" Everette asks with a rough voice.

I take his face in my hands, smiling sadly at him. He looks lost. Tired. And it brings me a feeling of satisfaction that I wasn't the only one affected by this.

"You just caught me underwater, because the feeling of drowning it's the only one that makes me feel you. Because every time I'm around you I feel drowned in all these emotions, and your body is always keeping me above them. So, you tell me Everette. Did it work?" My throat hurts at the words I just said. The lump in my throat makes it harder to concentrate on him.

His eyes look haunted, and when his hand moves to my lips, I almost break. His touch only can make me die.

Everette makes a throaty groan that makes me frown, and them he captures my lips in a desperate kiss. He kisses me hard, his lips staying frozen on mine like he wants to feel my skin on his. I move my hands from the water, grabbing his hair in the same tight hold he had me.

I open my mouth and that all it takes for Everette to

snap out of his trance. He takes my tongue between his lips, sucking it and kissing it until I feel it sore. We swallow each other’s months like we haven't kissed in years.

Two days but it felt like an eternity.

Everette separates our lips, grazing my cheeks in his big hands. His forehead meets mine, and both of our mouths are open, trying to take even breathes.

"I was never mad at you, Althea. I swear I wanted to be, but I can't blame you for keeping this a secret. It hurts, but I don't blame you, baby. I'm angry at myself for not seeing it sooner, but again, I can't change the past if I'm angry at both of us."

"Then why?" I ask in a desperate tone. "Why did you distance yourself from me? Didn't you think that it would kill me? Because it did, Everette. It killed me to think that I lost you too." I feel tears forming in my eyes, and my body temperature changing drastically.

"Fuck, baby, I didn't put distance between us. Fuck, I would never do that." He curses and lowers his head in the crook of my neck, slamming his hand multiple times on the edge. "I tried to not go to war with the Famiglia, that's why I wasn't home."

My hands freeze in his hair. While my heart can finally beat properly after hearing that he never had the intention to leave me, my blood stops running in my veins.

"A war with Famiglia?" And then it hit me.

Cazzo, cazzo, cazzo!

Famiglia doesn't have a ruler anymore. Hanibal died and no one took his place. How the fuck did I forget this?

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