Page 76 of Aching for His Discretion

Levi

Entering my penthouse, I leaned my head back and cracked it to the side as I turned on the lamp. I felt the cat walk by me as he purred, and I bent down to pick him up. It had to be around two in the morning, and I had some things to take care of. I was able to get Tesoro mio to sleep a bit earlier, but she’d cried a bit when she woke up.

I did my best to calm her after removing her work clothes and getting her into something more comfortable, and the second she hit the pillow, she was out like a light. When she’d fallen asleep around eleven, I left the penthouse and sped over to one of my clubs.

Entering the building, I ran my hands through my hair, agitated as I headed for the basement. There, I found a shirtless Nico in a separate room with a doctor who owed me quite few favors.

“How’s he doing?” I asked.

Enzo, or rather Dr. Lombardi, who was wrapping the final bandages around his wound, replied, “He’s okay. The bullet caused a puncture wound but did not fully exit the body.Hemorrhaging is minimal, and no critical structures appear to be compromised. In other words, he’ll be fine.”

I nodded as I looked over to see Nico hunched over, oddly reminding me of when I got treated by Teegan.

“How is she?” he asked me sincerely, and I sighed.

The man had a bullet in his arm and was asking about Teegan. As if I wasn’t the only one obsessed with her, these guys would literally take a bullet for her.

“She’s fine… sleeping now,” I muttered, and he nodded.

I heard a knock at the door, and Micah signaled me to follow with his head. I patted Nico on his other shoulder, and exited the room to walk farther into the basement. There Elliot was cleaning a few of the… tools, if you will, and I noticed the four men I had tied up were asleep.

“Wake the fuck up!” I yelled furiously, and Alec, his father, and Theodore slowly opened their eyes. John, on the other hand, had a bit of a hard time, considering the blow he took from Elliot’s foot, but he was fine. We weren’t going to do anything to him now. As for the others…

Walking into the middle of the floor, I smiled as I placed my hands on my knees, looking down at the ground.

“I just don’t fucking get it,” I muttered and took a deep breath as I looked up at the silent men tied up in a row. “Did you think I wasn’t going to be… upset with how you treated my sweet Tesoro? How you all have made her suffer mentally, emotionally… physically?” I looked up at them in question, and they remained silent as their mouths weren’t exactly free to speak.

“I feel like putting a fucking bullet through all of your skulls… But I can’t, fuck, I can’t. I promised my sweet Tesoro that I would change to become a better man. I have to keep my promise… I can’t lose her again. And look at me: I was tryinghard for her, and you all had to go fuck it up!!” I yelled as I had the urge to pull out my pistol, but I stopped. I couldn’t.

“If I broke my promise to her… then where would that leave me? Hmm? I won’t be able to let her go, but I also can’t let you all just get away with this. You’ve terrorized her, you know? And I… I don’t appreciate that much.”

Dr. Harrington tried to speak, and I nodded to Elliot to remove the tape over his mouth. He ripped it off, and the man spoke.

“So what the fuck are you going to do? You want to kill us, don’t you?” he asked, and I nodded.

“Of course I do… but I’m not going to break my promise to my sweet Tesoro and kill you three. No, no, no, no. I’ve left you unharmed as I told her… But do you know who didn’t make any promises and is going to kill you all?” I asked, and they remained silent as my face darkened.

“Her new fucking brothers,”I seethed, and Micah and Elliot both walked to stand beside me. I smiled on the inside as I heard another pair of footsteps, and Nico approached us as well.

“You not only pissed me off… but I think you pissed them off just a bit more. I mean, you tell me how you’d feel if your littlesisterwas being terrorized by three fucking low-life men.”

Turning around, I walked to the steps before I looked over my shoulder to see their angry and pleading eyes looking at me in utter hatred.

“Have fun.”

Going into my room, I placed the cat on the bed as my sweet Tesoro’s eyes shot open. She looked over at me, and her bottom lip wobbled as I approached her. Sitting beside her, I sighed as she wrapped her arms around my neck.

I was responsible… I was the one who couldn’t fucking stay away, and now that I was obsessive and possessive over her, I couldn’t let her go or be free.

And after seeing everything as close as she did… I knew I had broken something inside of her.

“Tesoro… amore mio?” I said.

She didn’t say anything. I wanted to lay with her and tell her everything would be okay, but I was filthy and needed a shower. I knew she felt all over the place as she didn’t even get to do her nightly routine either. Grabbing her hand, I walked over to the bathroom and turned on the water as she simply waited.

I helped her take off her clothes and let her step in as I did the same and got in as well. I washed her hair for her as she slowly washed her body. Washing myself, I watched as she silently let the water run over her.

Slowly, I brought her into my embrace, and she wrapped her arms around me. It was silent. She wasn’t crying. She didn’t seem upset anymore… just tired.

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