Page 277 of Mafia Kings: Valentino

To flee the heartbreak I knew was coming.

The part of me that wanted him was too strong.

I hurried down the lane, across the churchyard, and then stopped outside the door.

My entire body was trembling –

From desire or fear, I didn’t know which.

Then he said my name –

“Caterina?”

And it was the most beautiful music I’d ever heard –

Becausehesaid it.

I walked up the steps and paused, my heart beating wildly in my chest.

He turned. All I could see of him was a silhouette in the red and golden light of a stained glass window –

But I would have known that profile anywhere.

“Val,” I whispered, my heart both breaking and full of love.

He stepped forward into the light from the doorway, and I could finally see his face.

I put my hand to my mouth in shock.

The entire right side of his face was horribly bruised. Not only that, he had dozens of scrapes and cuts.

He gave me a lopsided smile. “Not so good-looking anymore, am I?”

Tears welled up in my eyes, and I dropped my hand and smiled. “I’d give everything I have to wake up to that face… exactly the way it is right now… for the rest of my life.”

He looked at me with a combination of pain and longing.

I stared at him with tears in my eyes.

And then I was running to him –

And he swept me up in his arms.

Before I knew it, his mouth was on mine, and his hands were all over my body –

And I gave in.

One last time.

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At first I looked around and panicked about where we were – a church, of all places! –

But when I felt his hard cock under his pants, I just moaned and closed my eyes.

His mouth kissed my neck, then went lower –

Until he slipped the top of my dress off one shoulder, pulled down one cup of my bra, and was sucking on my nipple.

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