Page 57 of All the Dangerous Things

“What?” I squeaked out, and he loosened his grip.

“Here I come, princess. You'll take allof it. Every drop.”Hisbody tightened, and then he followed me right over the edge.

Gio threw his head back, his throat muscles clenching under his inked-up skin. He roared so loud I swore my brothers’ guards would hear.

After my orgasm faded, I stared at Gio, my eyes feeling huge. He seemed to come so long; his orgasm never-ending. He shot so much into me, still connected, that I felt his seed slip out from between my pussy and his cock.

It seemed like an eternity before he finally relaxed and exhaled a powerful breath. He let go of my throat when he started getting off, and now he had his hands on the mattress on either side of my hips. His head hung forward between his shoulders, and his chest rose and fell with his intense breathing.

“Fuck, Tatiana,” Gio breathed, and then he sat backandstared at where he had just been buried. He pulled out, and I gasped at how sensitive I was. He seemed transfixed as he watched his cum slip out of me. I felt his thick wetness slipping down the crack of my ass.

“So fucking hot.” Gio reached down and gathered up all that cum and pushed his fingers backinto me. “Gonna make sure every drop stays inside of you.”

“There must be something wrong with me,” I whispered, and he cocked an eyebrow, slowly pushing that finger in and out of me. “Because I find it hot too that you are pushing your cum back in.”

The grin he flashed me was… genuine. And then he chuckled, and I felt my heart skip a little at the sound. There was always an undertone of predatory fierceness, of bottled rage that he exuded. But right now, he seemed… happy.

And it’s because of me.

I felt the heavy weight of sleep settling over me.

That easy smile of his soon turned into one of male satisfaction, and I laughed.

I parted my lips, those three words I wanted to utter so badly right on the tip of my tongue. But when he lay beside me and curled his big, hard body around mine, I pursed my lips and closed my eyes.

Eventually, I wouldn’t be able to hold those words in any longer, and I was scared as hell that once I uttered them, it would ruin everything.

23

TATIANA

TWO WEEKS LATER

Ididn’t have to look at the results to know what my fate was.

I’d known from the moment I missed my period that my future was sealed. But I waited two weeks to sneak off—as in goanywherewithout informing someone first—to the store and get a test, terrified of seeing two pink lines staring back at me.

I procrastinated, telling myself my brothers would find out where I was going when their guard dogs followed me. Which they did. But I bought tampons, too, slipping the test into my purse after paying for both in cash. And I sure as hell made sure I dropped the plastic bag on the sidewalk as soon as I stepped out of the store, said tampons falling out, so I had to pick upthe box for everyone to see.

The guard dogs were always hidden, more or less, but I knew they fucking saw, and that’s all I needed to ensure my brothers had a satisfactory answer when they asked what I bought.

For long seconds, I just stood in front of my bathroom mirror, my eyes closed, my mind a whirl of uncertainty.

I’d always been a pawn, a chess piece for everyone else to play. My life had never really been mine. Not really.

Not until my brothers took over the Desolation Bratva had I seen what it felt like to actually have any semblance of freedom for the first time in my life.

And then I methim,and I’d gone against the rules and done whatever the hell I wanted to.

I felt a rush when I was with Gio. He made me feel alive and wanted and like there was no one else on the planet that mattered more to him than me.

Maybe it was my wishful thinking. Maybe I read way too much into it all. But I held on to that like I was in the middle of the ocean and it was my life preserver, or I’d drown.

“Stop being a coward. You already know the results,” I whispered as I forced myself to gaze at my reflection.

I grabbed the pregnancy test sitting on the counter and flipped it so that the screen was face down, and I took a slow, deep breath in.

I lowered my head and, with shaky fingers, flipped it over and stared at the results. The two lines that showed were bright pink.

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