“You’re a lucky woman, Mrs. Toscano,” she said before vacating the table.

Ritchie gripped my jaw with his other hand. He winced a little, but that didn’t stop him from devouring my lips.

I knew he was hard as a rock. My hand slid over his cock.

Pulling back, I grinned.

“I’m going to miss tasting your sweet pussy.” He took my lips again.

My lips brushed his. “That was mind blowing, Ritchie.”

“I needed to get you off as much as you needed to get off,” he admitted.

Susie returned briefly with wine and appetizers.

Ritchie poured red wine into our glasses. “Promise you’ll be careful while I’m away.”

“I will.” I curled my arm around his and sipped my wine.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t concerned about Tyra. She tried to blow me up. Ritchie would’ve just been her consolation prize.

“Ritchie, do me a favor?”

He gulped down his wine. “Anything.”

I smiled. “When you pick up your cat, wear a camera. I’d like to see how your neighbor behaves in your presence.”

“Baby, she’s harmless. I promise to tell her I’m practically a married man.”

He kissed my lips again. It was like he couldn’t get enough of me.

I loved it. My heart banged in my chest. Being without Ritchie was going to destroy me.

“I’ll wear the camera. You won’t have to lift a finger.” His big hand gripped my thigh.

A part of me wanted to wrap up our dinner and take it back to the hotel. But I’d see our date through. We hadn’t been on a date since our second one at the hotel. Which was so fucking nice.

“Ritchie, I get it. She performed domestic tasks for you. The woman did those things in hopes of becoming your woman. I promise when I step into the picture, she’ll show her claws. Which will make me reveal mine. She really doesn’t want that because mine are sharper.”

“You can’t stop all the women from flirting with me. I’m well known in Jersey City. So it happens often.”

I peered up at him. “Oh, so there are a lot more?”

I wasn’t naïve. Of course, there were women who wanted him to be their man. Hello, when I laid eyes on him, I wanted the same thing.

“Tori, I’ve been single for a long time. It might take several of them a moment to get over the news that I’m not a single man anymore.”

“Several,” I repeated his words.

He nipped my lower lip. “You’ll be my wife. Women will always want a piece of the big bad wolf.”

I darted my tongue out, running it across his lips. “Little Red Riding Hood won’t let them have her big, bad wolf.” I grinned. “Oh, what big teeth you have, Mr. Wolf,” I stated in a seductive tone.

“Tori, you’re playing dirty.Keep it up and I’ll make you my wife in less than an hour.”

My smile withered. “I don’t want to take away from my best friend’s day.”

“Catch and Bianca are together only because my cousin came looking for me. Remember, I asked him to watch over you?”