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I’m getting a good view of her profile from here. Her long thick lashes flutter each time she blinks. She licks her lips and heat zaps to my cock. She’s beautiful. More beautiful than any other woman I’ve come across.

She must’ve noticed me standing there because she slowly turns her head to me and smiles, then she gently places her MacBook on the bed and removes her earphones. “How long have you been standing there?”

I lean out from the door and prowl to her. “A few minutes. Maybe more.”

Elena stands up from the bed and hugs me, she’s peppers my cheeks and lips with kisses before she buries her head in the crook of my neck and takes a breath. “I missed you so much.”

I kiss the top of her head and allow my lips to remain there seconds longer. “I missed you more. How was your day?”

She pulls away and helps me out of my clothes. “Normal. How was yours?”

“It was the same,” I lie. I’m dying to share how terrible today has been. I’d lost men, brothers in every way except blood, and money. But I don’t want to trouble her with mafia problems. I don’t want her to be part of anything that involves my dangerous world.

She stops unbuttoning my shirt for a second and squints at me. “Are you lying to me?”

I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her closer. “I’m not.”

She heaves a relieved sigh. “I was worried since you left in such a hurry this morning. I thought something had gone wrong.”

I’m seething on the inside, but I keep my mask in place. Everything has gone wrong today, and I have a feeling nothing will go right until I take down Kirill, still, I don’t let my worries show. “Trust me, everything’s fine.”

She grins, her eyes sparkling. I’m completely captivated by this woman. “I’ll get the chef to make you something to eat.” She starts for the door but I grab her wrist and pull her back, then I hug her tight.

“Don’t. I just want to go to bed wrapped around you.”Because you’re the only good in my life, Elena. You and Lucas.

“Dominic, are you sure you’re okay?”

“I am. Just exhausted and a little needy.” I break my embrace and place a finger under her chin, tilting her face up to mine. “Don’t I have the right to need you?”

“You do.” Her smiles fade a little. “Can I ask you something?”

“Shoot!”

“What happens when all of this is over, Dominic?” she asks quietly.

My chest constricts and suddenly feels too small to contain my heart. I want to give her an answer, but all I can offer is my silence.

Chapter Nineteen

Elena

“That doesn’t sound good, babe,” Moira says, her voice shaking with anger. She’s scowling, her arched brows knitted as she frowns. She’s fucking pissed, not that I can blame her.

I’m not mad at Dominic, but I’m not happy either.

Last night, I’d mustered enough courage to ask Dominic about our future together. Then I’d know what to expect, but what I got wasn’t anything like it. Silence and a kiss on the head before he walked off to the bathroom, was the answer he gave me.

Asshole.

My chest aches as if I’ve been stabbed. I can’t say that I have been stabbed, but a stab wound would probably hurt less than this.

“You should move out once all of this is over and never see him again.” She slams her fist on the desk and bites her lip, her nostrils flare. “I should go to his office and teach him a thing or two about treating a lady right.”

Elena tries to stand but I rise to my feet and grab her hand. She flicks her eyes to me and I swear I see fire in them.

I shake my head. “Don’t, Moira.”

My best friend will go through hell and back for me. She would fight a scary man like Dominic even if it meant she would die from it. She’s been that way since we met in college years ago.

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