Page 93 of Diavolo

His mysterious smile only stretched wider. "Nothing."

This didn't sound likenothing. This definitely sounded likesomething. It worried her. Before Elyse could gather her wits to further interrogate her husband, however, Alessandro began to kiss her in earnest. His lips engaged hers in a sinful push and pull that battled sweetly between too much and not enough. Hands began to roam. He palmed her tits and rolled her nipples. Elyse moaned softly. He kissed his way down to her chest, worshipped the swells of her rose-peaked breasts with his mouth and lips and tongue. Nipping, teasing, swirling. Sucking hard enough to leave deep red markings all across her flesh. A minute later, she felt him position his cock between her thighs. A stab of alarm shot through her fog of lust.

"Wait," Elyse protested breathlessly.

"What?"he groaned back. Alessandro was already rubbing the tip of his shaft along her lower lips, prepping for entry.

"Do you have protection?"

He froze slightly. "Why?"

She cast him a pointed look. "Because."

Earnestly, he declared, "Do not worry. You know I am clean from my physicals with you. I know you are clean from your physical."

Oh, yes.The same physical where he had a nurse swab her cheek for DNA. She vaguely remembered peeing into a cup and having some blood work done as well. It was maddening to realize howthoroughlyAlessandro had invaded her privacy back then, but she didn't want to get sidetracked from their current discussion. Elyse growled with irritation, "I know we're clean. That's not the issue here."

Alessandro looked genuinely perplexed. Impatiently, his cock twitched between them. "But we did not use protection earlier."

"Exactly."

His cock continued to jerk and throb against her pussy. He blinked at her with a blank expression, repeating, "So?"

"It was an oversight," Elyse mumbled, "that can't happen again."

Understanding finally clicked for him. "You do not want a child?"

She countered with a flabbergasted expression, "Doyouwant a child? It feels like everyone's trying to kill you right now."

He frowned slightly. "You have a point. The timing is not ideal."

It suddenly hit her. Alessandro had no problem with impregnating her tonight. Panic jumped through Elyse. If she gave birth to a Vitale baby, it'd become impossible to disappear without abandoning her child. "What would you do if I got pregnant?"

"I was not thinking that far ahead," he admitted sheepishly. "I-I was overcome by passion! It is difficult to think when the blood has left one's brain."

Elyse rolled her eyes in a sharp circle.Typical man.

"We can use protection from now on," he offered, "if you wish."

"Thank you."

Alessandro cast a curious look in her direction. "May I ask you something?"

"Yes?"

He grimaced. "Are you insisting on protection because you do not want a child right now? Or is it because you do not want a child... ever?"

Elyse had never experienced a strong desire to have children, but she wasn't opposed to the idea, either. Under the right circumstances. With the right man. Sadly, these weren't the right circumstances, and Alessandro wasn't the right man. She answered indirectly, "I wouldn't bring a child into this world unless I could provide a safe and happy life."

"I would never let our child suffer."

"But our ties to the Vitales and Gravianos can never be broken. Our children will be trapped the moment they are born."

"If you became pregnant," he expressed, "I could send you both away. A place where no one could find either of you. No one would know about our child. I would never want my son or daughter to grow up in the hellish way I was raised."

He presented this solution as though it was possible. As though he was actually planning to start a family with her. Elyse demanded, "Doyouwant to have a child with me?"

"You are my wife," Alessandro returned gruffly, "is it not natural for a husband to also see his wife as the mother of his children?"

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