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“Anna! Language!”

“Gloria! You’re in no condition to tell me to do anything. And I am sick and tired of missing you.Worryingabout you. Can’t I stay?”

“Of course you can … I just?—”

“Want to make sure that you know what you’re in for if you do,” I add, gently taking Gloria and lifting her into my arms. “Things might not be very normal for a while?—”

“Why? Cause you’re some sort of secret agent? Or a mafia hit man! Ew, or some kind of sicko? I bet you have serial killer trophies all over your—” She narrows her eyes at me, jutting out her jaw and skewering one finger at me.

“No! Golly, kid. I mean, sometimes, I’ve had to—you know what? I’m not telling you this. And no! I’m not a sick?—”

“Sheesh, relax, you’re going to give yourself a heart attack.” Anna rolls her eyes like I’m the one freaking out. “Anyway, if I’m going on the run with you two, I’m picking the music. And the first destination. Can we go to Bali? Ooo! Or Istanbul! I don’t really know much about it, but the name sounds?—”

“Anna!” Gloria snips, giving her sister a look as I carry her toward the exit.

Oh boy. It’s like Ciro and Ero wrapped up in one fifteen-year-old package of attitude.

Looking back over my shoulder, I nod to Weller. “See you around.”

“Not unless you want me to arrest you.”

“You still owe me a drink!”

“And you still owe me a story or two.”

EPILOGUE

Gloria

“Adriano, wake up,” I whisper, placing my lips on the middle of the ripped, chiseled back next to me, watching the muscles tense and twitch.

“I know you’re awake…”

I kiss my way around, up onto his shoulder, his neck, drifting my hand over the top of the sheets. I feel him harden through the smooth satin.

And then flex as I moan a soft breath into his ear, licking his earlobe.

Right as I grip him tightly through the covers.

Adri lays back, his eyes smoldering.

“My God, Gloria, you’redeadly.”

“You make me feel dangerous…daring.” I take his hand, guiding around my waist, down around the curvature of my bare cheeks, wiggling my butt and arching my back for him.

“Oh, do I, now? I thought we were done with danger for a while…”

“But a little dare every now and then never hurt anyone.”

In a heartbeat, he’s on top of me, flipping me onto my back and pinning my wrist. His eyes ravage my naked body, feasting on my heaving chest, my writhing hips beneath him.

“I think you’ve bitten off more than you can chew.”

“Oh, I certainlybite.” I lunge for his bottom lip, snapping at him playfully.

He pulls back just out of reach before leaning in again closer, letting me get to him this time as I nibble on his lips, sucking and running my tongue along the dent my teeth left.

When he bites me back my body zaps like a bolt of lightning, shivers tingling out into my fingertips and toes.

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