Page 75 of Darkest Desire
“He’s here? Why did any of you let him near my house?”
“He didn’t seem like a threat and he wanted to speak with your wife.”
My head whips around to stare at my house. “So he’s inside right now?”
“Yes.”
I’m going to have to kill Tony for his incompetence but first, I need to deal with Giovanni. Fuck this fucker for thinking he can come talk to my wife after the shit he pulled.
I rush inside and slip on something on the ground. It takes my eyes a second to see what’s happening. Blood. On the ground.
My heart pounds in my chest, worried that it’s Sasha’s, but then I see that it’s one of my guards, Aldo. He has a neck wound that’s still gushing blood despite the fact that he’s clearly dead.
It’s then that I hear Sasha scream.
I turn towards the stairs and see a horrifying sight. Giovanni on top of Sasha. She’s lying there, frozen, while he tries to push her dress up.
Fuck this.
I storm over to Giovanni and wrench him away from Sasha. He slips in the blood but rights himself before he falls over.
“You thought you could rape my wife in my own home?”
“Rape? She clearly has never been fucked. I was just going to show her what a man can do. What you clearly cannot. It’s not rape. She wanted it. She invited me in.”
“No,” Sasha whispers. “No, I didn’t.”
“I’m going to kill you for this,” I growl and lunge at Giovanni but he runs for the door. My foot slips on the blood and I crash to the ground, landing hard on my knees. They’re going to be bruised after this.
By the time I get back up, Giovanni has run out of the house. I rush after him, grabbing my gun but he’s gone. I don’t see him anywhere.
The backside of a car is just visible down the long road from my house. He’s getting away.
I run to my car to chase after him – nothing is going to stop me from killing him – when I hear Sasha say my name.
I turn to find her standing in the doorway. “What?? I have to go after Giovanni.”
“Nico, please. I don’t want you to go after him. Just come inside. Just… be with me.”
“But he needs to die.”
“You’re always so quick to kill but I’m frightened right now. I need… I need to feel safe. And you running off to kill Giovanni isn’t going to make me feel safe right now. What if he manages to kill you?”
I scoff. “Me?”
“You’re still only human. You can be killed. You’ve been shot before.”
I remember the intense pain in my back from where Mikhail shot me a year ago. I still have the scar to prove it but none of the other side effects. Still makes me pissed at Mikhail for doing it though.
“Sasha, I need to go after him. He needs to die.”
Slowly, she approaches me. Her hands shake as they reach up to touch my face. “I was almost raped by him. I froze because I was so afraid. If you go right now, I’ll never forgive you for it.”
“Don’t you want me to kill the man who just tried to rape you?”
“What I want is a husband I can depend on. A husband who makes me feel safe. That’s what I need right now. Please.”
I’ve never seen Sasha so vulnerable with me before. It’s disorientating. It’s also heartwarming.
