Page 38 of Charity's Redemption

I wrapped my arms around his neck, pulled him in tight, and let go. My muscles locked in place as my long overdue orgasm crashed over me, causing my ears to trill and my thighs to shake. Luca tipped his hips as my orgasm locked me in place, then plunged deep inside me, seeking his own release, and soon met it with a grunt.

Warmth flooded deep inside me as he held me down in his lap, forcing my clenched inner muscles to take everything he offered.

Our heavy breaths clashed against the silence of the room. I kissed him, a small peck on the lips, savoring his flavor. “I love you, Luca.”

Beaded sweat rolled down his chest as he inhaled. “And I love you, my beautiful pain in the ass.”

I laughed against his corded neck. “Can I have a shower now?”

His rumbling chuckle tickled my nipples pressed against his tattooed chest. “I’m not finished with you yet.”

Luca stood from the window bench and carried me to the bed, where he ravished my body relentlessly until the sun cracked through the clouds.

My used and abused body lay like a puddle on his bed—useless and soggy—with his arm draped over my waist. My skin sang with vitality as I stared at the ceiling.

Luca laid on his belly, his silent form rising and falling with his even breaths, his face turned away from me. It took all I had not to run my fingers down his skin. Instead, I placed my hand over his resting on my belly and massaged his knuckles while recalling our discussion.

Did Luca agree with me? Had I convinced him somehow to see from my perspective? It couldn’t have been so easy.

Luca didn’t make things easy. He dragged it out, made you toil in the mud, and just when you were about to break, only then would he consider it.

The thunder and rain stopped, letting the sunlight burn through the haze that made up the morning sky. Morning doves and song birds welcomed the day with song and flight, landing on the windowsill, their beaks tapping on the glass as they battled their reflection.

The smell of sex lingered in the air, but mostly on my skin and sticky thighs. I needed a shower because Luca claimed caveman's rights and rubbed his scent into my body like I was his prized possession.

After lying in bed with a barrage of overlapping ideas, I lifted Luca’s hand off my belly. His hand pressed back down around my waist, wrapped around my side, and with a roll and a grunt, he pulled me into his chest.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

I sighed. “I need to take a shower and get started.”

“On what?”

“Finding out how to get access to Zoe, the girl he keeps seeing.”

Luca placed a kiss on my shoulder, then hovered his heavy frame above me. His lips trailed towards my neck, laying kisses along my collarbone, then bit the pulse in my throat. I gasped from the shock as my pulse trembled between his teeth. Luca released me, then stared deep into my eyes.

“You may protect this family, but it’s done via orders from me.” His hand traced down the side of my breast to my waist, and hips until finally dipping down, seizing a firm hold on my sore ass, and squeezed hard. “If you go behind my back again, I’ll flay the skin from your supple ass.”

I winced as I pressed my hips up and away from his hold. “You’re such a romantic.”

A grin slid across one side of his mouth, creating a deep wrinkle beside it. “I’m serious, Charity. If you were anyone else, you’d be in a lye bath with a bullet between your eyes. You just don’t do that shit.”

“I’m sorry.”

He released his hold on me and slid his hand up my body, his fingers pinching my nipples as they passed by. I gasped and moaned as his fingers wrapped like a vice around my throat.

“You do as you're told, and nothing more.” His lips pressed down on mine, his teeth biting into my swollen bottom lip as my hands slipped up and wrapped around his arm. “There are intricate workings going on in this organization, and if you go off on your merry way, thinking you’re helping, you could fuck something up.” He squeezed a little harder, his words sinking into me like a weight. “Stay in line, Charity. Everyone has their role to play.”

He turned my head to the side with his thumb, then nibbled my ear. “Although I don’t mind the little things that get you on your knees before me. I love welting your ass just as much as I love you.”

His quick change of tone, from lecture to profession of love, sent heat coursing through my veins, warming the apex of my thighs.

“I love pushing your buttons as much as I love you.”

Luca groaned in my ear. “That’s a beautifully dangerous combination, baby.”

He laid wet kisses along my cheeks, his hand still firm around my throat.

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