Page 161 of Mafia Don's Secret Twins

I’m barreling down the road, barely around the corner of the turn, when I slam my foot on the brakes.

There’s another car.

Heading up the road.

Just as fast.

And I recognize the driver.

Slowly, I get out.

Dino mirrors my movements. We walk to the front of our respective vehicles, eyes locked, drawn to each other.

Like the moon and the sun.

Except Dino and I are like the sun and the earth. The moon and the stars.

We belongtogether.

Always.

He has just waited to see if you love him too.

Dino opens his mouth. “Marisol…”

“I love you,” I blurt.

Dino reels like I slapped him.

“I love you. I love you so much that I’m afraid you’ll take this and just walk away from me. That you’ll abandon me and the girls. I love you and I don’t know how to handle it because my mom loved my dad and he turned out to be… him,” I gasp. “And I want you and I to have so much more than they did, and I love you so much and I don’t…”

I stop talking when his lips cover mine.

Dino and I have kissed many times. So many times that I remember all of them. Each one feels unique to me, special in a way that I’m sure I’m never going to forget.

Before this, each kiss felt like a treasure. Something to hold onto when I felt lonely.

Not now.

We’ve never kissed like this.

This kiss is life. It’s all the promise of a future. All the passion that we’ve kept for each other, everything that we haven’t been able to say.

It’s here.

When it finally ends, I pull back, gasping.

Dino smiles. “I love you, Marisol. I’ve loved you since the second I met you on that fuckin’ beach.”

“So why did you wait?” I laugh.

“Because I didn’t think I deserved you. You deserved to be happy, and I’m…” he stops at my look.

“I’m the man who loves you, and I’m going to make you happy,” he finishes.

My smile feels like it stretches across my entire body. “That sounds about right.”

Dino presses a kiss to the top of my head. “I love you, Marisol. Will you please come to Greece with me?”

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