Page 20 of The Prizes We Win
Enzo’s eyes light up with glee, like a kid on Christmas morning. “Fuck yeah, I do.”
In one fell swoop, he gets us both up off the couch, throws me over his shoulder, and takes off in a near sprint up the stairs.
“Hey!” Luca calls. “Don’t we have some shit to figure out?”
“Talk amongst yourselves and fill us in in the morning,” Enzo calls back, not bothering to stop for one second. And I don’t try to get him to either. “We have important sleepover business to attend to.” He smacks the globe of my ass as we enter his room. “Don’t we, Sweetheart?”
I giggle as Enzo throws me onto his bed. Looking up at him, I bite my lip and answer, “Fuck yeah, we do.”
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Enzo
Throwing off my black T-shirt, I move to crawl onto the edge of the bed, but Josephine’s foot in the center of my chest stops me in my tracks. Wrapping my hand around her ankle, I bring her foot to my mouth and take her toe between my teeth. I give it a sharp bite and she shrieks. “Is there something I can do for you, Sweetheart?”
“I just wanted to look at you for a second,” she beams up at me.
Playing along, I drop her foot, take half a step back, and hold my arms wide. “Well, by all means, look away.”
Joe laughs as she moves to a kneeling position, and I can’t help but puff out my chest in pride as I watch her eyes eat up every inch of me. “God, you really are hot as fuck,” she says before climbing off the bed and standing in front of me. Grabbing the hem of her shirt, she pulls it over her head. But I couldn’t tell youwhere the hell it went after that because my eyes remain glued on the way her hair drapes over her breasts.
In a matter of two seconds, it feels as if all the blood in my body is sent straight to my cock. “Right back at ya,” I groan.
Joe grabs the waistband of my sweatpants and pulls me to her. “You wanna fuck me, Lorenzo?”
I thought it was obvious, but maybe not.
“Yeah, I wanna fuck you, Sweetheart. I’ve wanted to bury myself inside of you since I watched you pin that asshole to the ground in the middle of the street.”
Joe bites at her lower lip, and her gunmetal eyes dance between mine. Using the hand that’s not still holding my pants. she reaches up and grabs at my jaw. And with the most sultry voice I’ve ever heard spill from her perfectly full lips, she says, “Then fuck me. And I meanfuck. Me.”
Oh, fuck yeah.
Joe releases her hold on me as I move my hands to her ass and scoop her up. Her legs immediately wrap around me, feeling my throbbing erection at her center. She moans deep in her chest, and the sound feels like it instantly recenters everything that has felt off-kilter for days.
I may not know exactly where I stand in my relationship with Luca and Seb, and I sure as shit don’t know what is going to happen with Dante and me, but one thing I know without a shadow of a doubt is that this woman is the prize I’ve been waiting for my whole life.
Everything I have or haven’t done has led me to her.
And just when I thought she couldn’t get any more perfect, she lightly slaps my cheek. “I thought I just told you to fuck me. Not stand there and gawk.”
“Jesus fucking christ,” I growl, more turned on than I thought possible.
“That’s more like it,” she replies.
I crash my mouth to hers. Her lips open for me beautifully, but she doesn’t let my tongue search her mouth, and instead, she fights me for dominance of the kiss.
So that’s the game we’re going to play?
Letting go of her ass with one hand, I reach up and wrap her hair around my fist, and give it a sharp tug. Joe moans into my mouth but still won’t let me in. I take her bottom lip between my teeth and give it a gentle nip. “Let me,” I groan.
She kisses me again, but a moment later, she tugs my lip between her teeth. Only, unlike my gentle warning, she bites down hard, causing me to hiss. And when she finally lets go, and I lick my lip, the tangy taste of copper coats my tongue.
“No,” she replies.
We stare at one another for a moment, seconds suspended in time, before our lips collide once again. Only this time, we both know the game.
In a few long strides, I’m crossing the room and slamming her against the wall. Knowing she’s not going anywhere, I plant my palms flat against the drywall on either side of her head. Joe tips her head back, and her lips part open when mine come in contact with her neck. I nip and suck along the sensitive skin, savoring the way her hips involuntarily move against me.
