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He smiled at me, and it was like the most glorious sunrise I’d ever seen.

Then he brushed aside the wet hair from my face…

And he whispered, “I love you.”

I was absolutely overwhelmed.

The pleasure from just a few moments ago?

No matter how amazing it was…

It couldn’t hold a candle to what I was feeling now…

Because I realized I felt the same way.

I was so overcome with joy that tears welled up in my eyes.

“I love you, too,” I whispered.

The voices immediately began yammering.

What about the mafia thing?

What about –

I pushed them aside.

It was easy to do.

No matter what happened from here on out, he loved me –

And I loved him, too.

We kissed…

And everything else faded away, leaving just the two of us… together.

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We got back to the Summit without encountering the cops.

I was shivering from my rain-drenched clothes, so we took a hot shower and fucked in bed.

As we lay there afterwards, we talked…

And I opened up to him in a way I never had with anyone else.

He asked me why I’d freaked out when he’d told me he was in theCosa Nostra…

And I told him about my father.

About being kidnapped.

About my father finding out I was into BDSM…

About him shaming me… slapping me… and disowning me.

Things got lighter when I revealed I’d known he was stalking me from the beginning.

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