Page 93 of King of Obsession

She slid her hands around my collar, and I lowered my head, capturing her lips, sliding my tongue in an unholy caress.

Before easing it into her, tongue fucking her until she squeezed my neck so hard, its imprint left a mark.

I kissed her with intensity, demanding, suckling on her lower lip till she whimpered against my mouth.

My cock pulsed, and I almost entertained stripping her clothes off right there and then and making her scream out here in the wilderness.

We’d work to do, my logical brain told me.

I pulled away from her swollen, wet mouth and brushed her cheek with a finger, chest heaving.

‘You are pure, fuckin’ beauty,’ I rasped into her ear before tapping her ass and pushing her out in front of me on the path.

Tugging me forward, she stalked ahead, and I let her, drinking her in, her lush, tight behind, her hips, that waist, the small of her back and nape.

I couldn’t wait to fuck her senseless.

The sun beat down on our backs, the air heavy with the scent of earth and a rich biosphere.

Cleo took the binoculars from me at the fence line and studied the compound below.

‘I can’t see any of the Contis, just worker bees, majority of them on the hemp fields.’

‘See that?’ I whispered, pointing somewhere above one of the barn structures. ‘The last of the night’s frost is rapidly turning to steam, which means they have massive amounts of heat inside.’

‘Machinery?’

‘Some large operation that gives out massive energy. I plan to check it out. Tomorrow morning.’

Cleo’s lips pursed, and her hand tightened on my arm, her tone urgent. ‘Alessio, we need to be careful. What if one of the Contis catches us snooping around?’

My mind was made up. ‘I have to go in, Cleo. Maybe how we bring down Franco and his sons is by exposing the shit they’re up to.’

Her eyes searched mine, and I tagged the fear and uncertainty warring with her fierce drive to end her nightmare. ‘Alessio -’

‘Woman, I know the risks,’ I growled. ‘But I also know that I can’t walk away.’

‘I -‘

‘You need me to do what no one else wants to,’ I grunted, this time with a hard, unyielding edge.

Sei la mia vita.

She was rapidly becoming my hope of a fuckin’ incandescent life, and I would never let her stop at any chance of bringing her happiness.

Cleo closed her eyes for a moment, taking a deep breath.

When she opened them again, she nodded.

‘Okay,’ she murmured. ‘But we do this together. No rash decisions, no unnecessary risks. We go in smart, and we get out fast.’

I jerked my chin at the incredible woman beside me.

‘Tomorrow morning. I’ve a plan for how all this shit will play out.’

CLEO

It was early evening, and I took a much-needed shower in the outhouse.

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