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My heart pounds in my chest.
“You wanted your own room. You got it. You want freedom, fine, you can come and go as you please,butwe still have enemies and you need a guard. I appreciate you taking Enzo with you when you leave.”
I open and close my mouth. He has more, I know it, there’s always more.
“I get that you want control over this because you had none in the first place, butthis,” he gestures between the two of us, “has already happened, we’re married, you’re my wife there is no time limit to when this ends. As for consummation, I’ll drop it.”
“You’ll—”
“Let me finish.”
I swallow hard and take a breath.
“I’ll drop it. You said you want to be the one who initiates then you will andI promise you will.”
I scoff.
He doesn’t blink.
“I’ll have you again Adriana,” he says, voice smooth. “You’ll see me for who I am—” He leans forward, slow and deliberate, until we’re eye-level. “—the man still obsessed with you. I let you go once.Never again.”
My stomach drops.
No.
My heart.
It leaps.
Damn it.
“I willneverinitiate it,” I blurt.
He leans back on the couch, smug. But then—he shifts. Casual. Slow. His hips angle toward me. His arm drapes over the back of the couch. One hand rests near his thigh, veins prominent, fingers flexing like he’s imagining them on my skin. His lips part, tongue swiping over the bottom one like he’s savoring something.
I feel it.
The heat creeping up my neck.
The flush I can’t stop.
His gaze drops, just briefly, to where my legs cross, like he knows.
“I told you,” he says quietly, “you’ll initiate it. You’llwantto.”
I swallow hard.
“You can’t be in a room with me for longer than ten minutes without getting angry. That feeling isn’t anger, Adriana. It’sfrustration.And I can help you relieve it.”
The audacity.
I snap.
“I’d rather fuck anyone else before Ievercome to you.”
It’s low. Mean.
And the second it leaves my mouth, I regret it.
