Page 26 of Vow to Me

How thefuckdid I miss something like that?

I quickly mask my shock and offer Alec a smile while trying to calm my racing pulse.

“Nice to meet you,asshole best friend.”

“Best friend is right, love. Me and you are gonna be besties,” he says with a grin, making Luca slap him on the back of his head and Alec laughs.

“Like fuck you are!” Luca growls, which only makes him laugh harder. I can tell from the way they act with each other that they’re close.

Hell, Luca probably had Alec investigate me before we got married, and he clearly didn’t find much as neither of them have mentioned my online presence.

“Oh fuck, it’s so easy to mess with you, man.”

Shaking his head, Luca takes my hand and leads me to the bar to escape his friend, who just follows.

Luca and Alec start talking about something in hushed whispers, not purposefully excluding me, just trying to avoid being heard by anyone else stood at the bar. I rise on my toes and whisperto Luca that I’m going to use the bathroom. He gives me a nod and kisses my temple before letting me hand go.

I walk through the room, narrowly dodging people in attempt to avoid anyone stopping me to chat. Apparently, being the woman who managed to wear down the elusive Luca Romano in such a short amount of time is no small feat, and women around the room have been bursting at the seams to know what ‘tricks’I used on him.

No tricks here, honeys.Just a good old contractual agreement between our fathers.

We’ve been getting along well, and Luca is everything I didn’t know I needed. It’s comfortable, but I have no delusions of us actually falling in love.

Chapter Twenty-Three

Luca

Iwatch Izzy’s hips sway as she walks away, the silk material of her dress clinging to her curves that beg me to grab onto them and never let go. The evening has been a fucking nightmare, all I want to do is get home and sink my cock into my wife’s hot, wet, cunt while she cries out and begs for more. I shake my head, trying to clear my mind of the unadulterated lust that I keep getting lost in and I watch Izzy until she’s out of my view.

When I can no longer see her, I turn back to Alec to resume our conversation, except he’s staring at me with wide eyes and a look of utter shock on his face.

“What’s wrong?” I ask and glance around me to see what his problem is.

“Dude, I’ve been keeping it together until now, but would you care to explain what the ever-loving fuck has happened to you? Are you sick? Are you being blackmailed? Have you just lost your fucking mind? I’m worried man,” he says, utterly bewildered. That makes two of us.

“What the fuck are you talking about?”

“OhJesus,”he says with a burst of laughter. What the fuck is wrong with him?

“You realize you’re in love with your wife, right?”

Oh,that.

“Yes, I’m aware. My father made me realize that this morning,” I grumble, not wanting to have this conversation with the king of non-commitment.

“Oh goodie, just making sure you were aware. I’m loving this. Big, bad, scary, Luca Romano has been turned into a fluffy marshmallow, is this the part when you start waxing poetic, telling me to find myself a woman and settle down, that it’ll be good for me? Have you fucked her yet?”

“Fuck off,” I growl.

“I’ll take that a yes, then. You know…” he continues but I’m not paying attention. Izzy has been gone for at least ten minutes, I’d expect any of the other women in this place to take that long to use the bathroom, but not Izzy.

Izzy isn’t high maintenance, she’s not the type to stand in front of the mirror gossiping or whatever the hell those women do, so where the fuck is my wife?

Something’s wrong.

I walk away from Alec, where he’s still in the middle of rambling about my love life and make my way towards the women’s bathroom to find Izzy.

I swear, if something has happened to her, or if someone’s hurt her, I’m g—

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