Page 20 of Days Of Valentino

“Ti amo, Papa,” she replies.

“Go back to sleep. Sorry I woke you.” I stop when I get to her door and turn back to look at her over my shoulder. She gives me another one of her smiles, and I force myself to walk out and close the door behind me.

I make my way into my own bedroom and find my wife reading in bed. When she notices me, she sets her book down. “How is she?”

“Sleeping like a baby.”

“That’s good. But why do you look like you’re about to be sick?” Savvy asks while climbing off the bed.

“Did you know Aurora was dating?”

“Well, yeah. She’s eighteen, Tao.” Savvy gives me that same smile my daughter had moments ago. I think they do it on purpose. They both know what their smiles do to me.

“She’s a baby still. I told her to be a spinster and live with us forever.” Reaching out, I wrap my arms around my wife. Her laugh is silent, but I feel the shake of her chest against me. “It’s not funny,” I grunt.

“It kind of is,” she says.

“I know I promised you to stay as clean as I could. But fuck, Savvy, I can’t just sit back and watch some punk-ass kid creep up on my little girl and not tear his fingers off.”

“Tao, you were a punk-ass kid once. I was there. I remember.”

“I was never a punk,” I correct her. “Or a creep.” I lean back, running my eyes along every inch of her exposed skin. Even after all these years, she’s still the sexiest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. “Although I could creep up on you right now.” I wiggle my eyebrows at her.

“Oh, yeah? Think you could handle all that I am, Tao?” Savvy waves a hand over the full length of her body.

“I know I can.” Reaching behind my back, I pull my shirt over my head. “The question is… can you?” I take a step forward, causing her to take a step back until the undersides of her knees hit the edge of the mattress. And my eyes land on the orange sheets. “You changed the bedding?”

“I was feeling nostalgic,” she says.

“Yeah? You wanna take a trip down memory lane with me, Savvy? Relive our first time?” I ask as I lean my body over hers.

“I want to relive a thousand lives with you, Matteo.” Her breath hitches as my fingers trail up the inside of her thigh.

“You can count on it. We’re soul mates. We’ll always find each other.” My lips slam down onto hers. This right here? This is home. Wherever Savvy is, that is where I’m supposed to be. I’ve known it since I was six years old.

Her arms wrap around my neck, holding me tighter against her, while her legs wrap around my waist. “Fuck me, Tao,” she whispers into my mouth.

“Ask nicely.” I grind my hard cock against her mound, wishing there wasn’t a layer of clothing between us.

“Please, Tao, I need you inside me. Right now,” she moans.

“I never have been able to deny you anything,” I tell her while sitting up. I drop my sweats and palm my cock before lifting the hem of Savvy’s nightgown. Finding her completely bare underneath. “You’ve been waiting for me?”

“I have,” she says.

“Are you ready for me, babe?” I ask her, lining my cock up with her entrance. Waiting for her nod before I push inside her slowly. “Fucking heaven.”

“Oh god!” Savvy moans, her nails dragging down my back.

This—being balls deep inside my wife—is my own slice of heaven. Something I’ll never take for granted. The fact that she’s mine, that she gave herself to me… I’ll always be grateful for that. I will always worship the ground she walks on. She’s not just my wife or the mother of my children. She’s my best friend. She’s my fucking everything.

Episode Nine

They say when you’re dying, your life flashes before your eyes. That didn’t happen for me. No, I only saw one face when I thought I was on death’s doorstep. Antonio’s.

I saw the life we haven’t lived yet. I saw him waiting for me at the altar of a big old Catholic church, filled to the brim with our families and friends. I saw him holding our newborn babies.And I saw him holding my hand throughout all of it. I saw a life I desperately wanted, a life I was going to fight to keep.

And then I saw him without me. I saw the devastation my death would cause him. I felt it deep in my soul and it broke me.

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