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“I never said that it was. I just stated what would happen if you chose to make a move to fuck me over and renege on our deal. I didn’t say I’d want to or would enjoy doing it. It’s just a promised consequence if it comes to that.”

I keep eye contact with Leo, never wavering, and not letting him find a single doubt in my gaze.

“As you know, Katarina is taken now.” Leo’s eyes flick to Nico and Vinny, and I have to hold back from smirking like an asshole.

“I know.”

His brows twitch. “It seems you have someone in mind.”

“I want Mia.”

I can feel the glares of Nico and Vinny, her brothers, but my deal is with Leo, not them, so I keep my eyes on him.

“You want Mia,” he states, his eyes narrowing.

“Yes.”

“Why her?”

“Why not her? I saw her at your wedding. She’s beautiful.”

When I saw Mia six months ago at Leo’s wedding, I was fucking awe struck. She’s fucking gorgeous. I spent the entire night watching her laugh, smile, and talk to her family. And when she got up to dance with her cousins, I had to hold back the urge to walk right up to her and wrap my arms around her waist and have her grind that sexy ass of hers against me.

She wasn’t hiding any of her curves in that silk bridesmaid dress she had on. My cock was hard as fucking steel from the moment I saw her walk down the aisle to the time I got home to jerk off, picturing everything I wished I could do to her.

Everyone watched Leo and Abrianna get married, but I watched Mia Carfano. The way her hips swayed, the way she smiled when they said their vows, and the way she teared upwhen they kissed as husband and wife. She blinked away her tears before they could fall, and I could see the mix of joy and envy in her gaze as she followed them back down the aisle.

Mia never once noticed me that night, but I noticed everything about her. And since then, I’ve learned everything I could find out about her.

“She is.” His jaw ticks. “I could arrange for you to meet her.”

I can’t help the slight upturn of my lips. “Perfect. But it’s her or there’s no deal.”

Leo’s jaw flexes again, no doubt in an attempt to not tell me to fuck off. Vinny, though, isn’t as adept at keeping his emotions in check, because he grunts his opposition and I finally let my eyes flit over to his and Nico’s. Leo is able to school is emotions for the most part, but these two are showing nothing but anger and flat-out contempt towards me.

I know I should care what they think because they’re Mia’s brothers, but I can’t bring myself to at the moment. They can hate me all they want, but if they want this deal to happen, then I’m going to marry their sister and they’re going to have to accept that.

“We’ll talk to Mia and then we can all meet next Friday. And considering how the meeting of you and Katarina ended last year, you’ll come here,” he says forcefully, his pointer finger touching the table to punctuatehere. “Same time.”

“Sounds perfect to me.” Standing, I make eye contact with each of the men around the table. “Until then.” I nod, and take my leave, waiting until I’m out of sight before letting my smile spread across my face.

She’ll soon be mine.

Chapter 2

Mia

“What are you saying?” I ask my brothers, my eyes darting between Nico and Vinny. I know what I’m hearing, but I’m hoping by some miracle I’ve lost my faculties and I’ve imagined they just told me I was going to be marrying Santino Antonucci.

“You’re marrying Santino,” Leo, my cousin and the head of the family, tells me instead of my brothers.

“Why? I know Katarina was supposed to last year, but I thought that was all resolved or whatever.”

“What was resolved?”

“I don’t know!” I say, throwing my hands in the air. “Whatever the reason was that you needed her to marry him last year. Can’t you just negotiate whatever business deal you need to make with him without marrying me off?”

“He wants you,” Leo says through a tight jaw, like it was difficult to say.

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