Page 121 of Made for Sinners

He loosened his tie, letting it hang around his neck. “The only kind I know.”

I swallowed, my pulse quickening.

He leaned in, his mouth brushing my ear. “Tell me something.”

“What?”

“How should I do it?”

I blinked. “Do what?”

He pulled back just enough to meet my eyes. “Kill Rocco.”

My breath caught.

“I—” I hesitated. “I don’t know. That doesn’t seem like a decision I should make.”

“It affects you just as much as it affects me,” he said. “Grand execution at Sunday dinner? Or something quieter? A warehouse. A bullet. No witnesses.”

I stared at him, my heart pounding. “I’m too drunk to have this conversation.”

He chuckled, low and dark. “Liquid lunch?”

“Liquid lunch and dinner.”

He sighed, brushing a strand of hair from my face. “Then let’s talk about something else. What do you want to eat?”

I blinked. “What?”

He kissed the corner of my mouth. “Food. You need it. What do you want to order?”

I smirked. “I’ll have to think about it.”

He dropped to his knees.

“Well,” he said, sliding my panties down my thighs, “think quick.”

“Why?”

He grinned up at me, wicked and beautiful.

“Because I’m about to have an appetizer.”

I blinked down at him, the kitchen lights casting a golden halo over his dark hair as he knelt between my legs like it was the most natural thing in the world. Like he belonged there.

And maybe he did.

The marble counter was cold beneath me, a sharp contrast to the fire blooming low in my stomach. My thighs were already parting for him, my breath catching as his hands slid up my calves, slow and deliberate, like he had all the time in the world.

He wasn’t in a hurry.

He was savoring this.

Savoring me.

“Dante,” I whispered, my voice barely audible over the hum of the refrigerator and the steady drip of the faucet still running pink in the sink.

He looked up at me, his eyes heavy-lidded and dark with intent. “You said I could get on my knees,” he murmured, hishands sliding higher, fingertips grazing the sensitive skin behind my knees. “I’m just following orders.”

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