Page 21 of Dark Desire

I scrubbed my hand down my face. “Fuck.”

“What is it, Boss?”

“Nothing. I’ll call you later. If you find anything, you call me. And remember, my brothers don’t need to know about this.”

He sighed into the phone. “Sure. Are you alright?”

“Yeah. I gotta go.” I tossed my phone onto the table in the kitchen and leaned against the counter.

How had I missed this? I was a fucking Anastasi. This shit didn’t slip by us and yet… the woman sitting in my room had managed to infiltrate our private lives completely undetected.

“Vincenzo.” Her soft voice filled the kitchen.

Turning to her, I folded my arms across my chest. She was standing in nothing but one of my shirts. One I assumed she took from my closet.

“What do you want from me, Riley?”

“Look. I know this looks bad, but you have to understand…” She bit her lip as she spoke. “Everything has changed. I was going to tell you.”

“When exactly? Were you going to say something as you arrested me or after you arrested my brothers?”

“Please. Listen to me. I didn’t mean for this to happen. You were just supposed to be a job. I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with you.”

“Are you telling me you haven’t provided your department with information about my family?”

She nibbled at her lip, anxiety pouring off her in waves. “That’s exactly what I’m saying.”

“I don’t believe you, Riley.”

“I know you don’t, but I swear I’ve told them nothing. I couldn’t.” I stepped toward her, causing her to step back out of fear.

She backed into the wall and froze as I crowded her in. “Why didn’t you? You know enough information to do significant damage to not just me, but Massimo and Antonio.”

“I told you. I couldn’t. I see you for more than what’s in the file I have on you. Everything you do is to help others—even if it’s illegal.”

I shook my head. “You wouldn’t say that if you knew the real me.”

She reached up and brushed her palm across my cheek. “Yes, I would.”

“Really? You’d still say you love me if you knew how many people I’ve killed? You’d love me knowing I was the man everyone called to clean up their problems?”

Tears pooled I her eyes, the sight gutting me when it shouldn’t have. “I don’t care. That was your past. Please… don’t push me away.” Her quick intake of breath and the whisper from her lips had my cock hard as a rock.

“You don’t care?” I laughed as I wedged my knee between her legs. “A woman of the law doesn’t care that I’ve killed people for money. That I was the man people called when no one else could do the job.” Her eyes dilated as she watched my lips move closer. “Being with me could end your career. Are you alright with that?”

“I don't know.”

I fastened my mouth over hers in a searing kiss. Her hands fisted my hair as I fucked her lips with mine. Gripping her ass in my palms, I lifted her up and pressed her back into the wall. She winced slightly, but her legs wrapped around me. Her warm center pressed against my stomach. Even through her panties, I could feel her heat.

“We can't do this, Vincenzo.” Her words were telling me no, but the moans against my mouth told me otherwise.

I should have sent her on her way, but I couldn’t. I wanted to teach her a lesson—but more so than that I wanted to own her fucking soul. Lifting her from the wall, I walked her back to my room and threw her down on my bed. I stripped off my clothes and then ripped the shirt she was wearing and tossed it aside. My tongue traced the redden skin, eliciting a huff out of her. Pinning her legs to the mattress, I snatched the dainty lace material from her core and buried myself between her legs. My tongue licked the seam of her pussy, dipping in and out of her folds.

Her body thrashed beneath me as she tried to pull free of my assault on her wet hole. "Don't move." I growled against her cleft, biting down hard on her clit as she screamed out her release. I slurped every last drop of her cum before crawling up her body and pinning her arms above her head.

"I take what I want, Red. Does your file tell you that?" I leaned down and captured one of her lace clad nipples in my mouth. Even through the scant fabric, I could taste the sweetness of her flesh. Just as I bit down on the pert tip, I speared my cock inside her. She cried out from the forceful intrusion, stilling beneath me before finally adjusting to my girth.

"You can pretend to be the villain, Vincenzo. But I know it's not who you are." Her body contorted beneath me as she speared my cock inside her deeper.