Page 48 of Sin & Secrets

The sensation courses through me like a freight train. Every molecule in my body feels like it’s on fire, and he licks and licks and sucks and sucks.

The pleasure within me builds and builds with every filthy lap of his tongue. It’s almost too much, but then it’s suddenly not. I squirm in desperation as my pleasure begins to plateau.

“More,” I cry out as I try to chase my pleasure. “I need you.”

“You mean here?”

That cruel, spiteful tongue licks the entire length of my sex before plunging into me.

I must scream because a hand clasps around my mouth. I take his fingers between my lips without thinking as I rock up and down his tongue, riding the newfound wave of pleasure coursing through me.

“Yes, yes!”

Suddenly, his hand disappears from my mouth. His two spit-soaked fingers encircle my entrance, and within seconds, he buries them inside me.

The pressure building within me finds its release, my orgasm bursting from my lips as his fingers work me harder and harder. That cruel, cruel tongue never gives my clit a moment of respite as he coaxes my pleasure on and on until I’m completely and utterly spent.

By the time I come to my senses again, I can barely breathe. With shaking hands, I prop myself up on the bed to survey the damage.

Just as the bedroom door closes behind Rocco’s retreating figure.

13

ROCCO

Iwould be lying if I said I wasn’t avoiding Cassandra.

True, my duties to my work prevent me from staying longer than a few hours at my brownstone. But I remain locked in my room and have Donatella deliver my meals.

I had been a fool to think that taking Cas that night would somehow satiate my hunger for her. That had been a good enough excuse in my near-possessed state of lust.

But if anything, that desire seems to have expanded tenfold. And the creature I will surely become in her presence is not one I care to inflict on anyone.

Especially her. She did not ask for my affections, willing as she was to accept them. And God, did she accept them…

But that does not condemn her to a life trapped in my bedchamber for me to pursue her body at my pleasure… as delightful as that might be to my baser instincts. I am still very much a coward when it comes to them

“Are you sure you don’t want me to accompany you?” Teo says at my side.

From the way Martino glances at me in the rearview mirror, I imagine he shares Teo’s sentiment.

If anything were to cleanse my mind of Cas’ tender breast between my teeth, it would surely be today’s meeting.

In the week since the fake contract between Lazzaro and I was concluded, he has remained infuriatingly uninteresting.

Sure, he has been spotted in the private rooms of theElectrixalmost every night, indulging himself in drugs and women, if Alessandro’s reports are to be believed. But there is still nothing from his contact with the rat.

“And subject you to Giuliano’s torment?” I brush Teo off. “Believe it or not, I know you well enough to surmise that one of you will not leave that conversation alive.”

Teo’s fists clench, and I have to look away from the man I would happily call brother.

It had been the worst request on my father’s list. Being asked to protect the family that had killed Teo’s had been torture. Likely, he only included it to torment us both, but it still weighed heavily that I had accepted. Even Teo himself had implored me to do so.

“I’m still not convinced you will gain anything valuable from him.” Teo diverts the conversation to safer, more well trodden territory.

“It is in his best interests to protect the Guild, even if it means answering to me,” I say, despite my own reservations.

But at this point, any insight into the identity of the rat would be valuable. Even to just to cross my father off the list of potential suspects.

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