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“Which meansyouowemea massage later tonight,” she adds.

Plus, how could I pass up the opportunity to have my hands all over my girl’s oiled up body?

“Oh, I guarantee you the best massage of your life tonight, baby.”

“Oh yeah?” She wiggles her brows at me. “Will it end in a happy ending?”

Grabbing her around the waist, I pull her into me so her back is against my chest. I wrap my arms around her, and we continue walking in unison around the corner into the kitchen. Isabella lets out a giggle while I whisper in her ear, “You bet your fucking ass it does.”

“Oh, yay, the two lovebirds are here,” Enzo says in his chipper tone, but it’s laced with sarcasm.

“Oh, shut it, Vincenzo,” Isabella says while spinning around in my arms. She gives me a quick peck on the nose before saying, “I’ll leave you to it.”

I reluctantly let her go, and she looks at her brothers. “If anyone needs me, I’ll be getting in a pole sesh with Lux and Char.”

My gaze follows her as she leaves the room, and the anxiety that seems to find me each time I don’t have eyes on her, rises within. It’s what that night did to me a month ago. She was taken away from me so easily, and that’s permanently marked me.

“I get it,” Matteo says, and I’m about to ask him what, but he continues. “After Lux was taken by Mancini, I struggled with not having her near me twenty-four seven. If I didn’t have eyes on her, then I didn’tknowshe was safe.”

“Does that feeling ever go away?” I ask.

“Not really,” he laughs out. “But I think that’s just who we are as men in our world. We’re always going to be protective over the women we love. That’s not a bad thing. It’ll keep us prepared whenever the next threat comes. We need that.”

He pauses for a moment as if he’s trying to figure out how to continue. “But the worry will start to lessen as time goes on, Nicco. It’ll never go away, but you’ll learn to trust that just becauseyoudon’t have eyes on her, doesn’t mean she’s not safe.”

I give him a small nod. I’ll never stop worrying about my girl no matter what, but hopefully, Teo’s right. Hopefully, the anxiety when she’s not with me will lessen as time goes on, because right now, my mind gets thrown back to when Mauricio took her.

“I promise she’s safe here,” Teo says, then nods toward his office. “Come on.”

I follow Teo and Enzo to the office, and we all take our seats—Teo behind the desk and me and Enzo directly across from him.

“So,” Teo says, “to what do we owe this pleasure?”

“Let me guess, Izzy’s already driving you nuts?” Enzo says. “Because you claimed her, and there aren’t any takebacks,” he adds with a chuckle.

“Enzo, I really like you as a future brother-in-law, but am I going to have to beat the living shit out of you for speaking about my woman like that?” My tone is playful, but still with a hint of seriousness because I will defend my girl to the ends of this earth. Even to her own brothers. The protective instinct comes out strong and heavy with her.

“Damn, you two go and fall in love and now no one is fun anymore. It’s all overprotective assholes now.”

Teo chuckles. “You’ll understand when you’re in our position, Enzo.”

“I highly doubt that. I’m not looking to settle down. I happen to enjoy my sex life, thank you very much.”

Giving a relaxed shrug, Teo responds, “Hey, I fucking love my sex life. It’s just with one woman instead of… what is it now, a different chick every week, Enzo?”

Enzo shrugs off the number. “Enough to make me not get backed up if you must know.”

“I’m with Teo on this one. Me and Isabella’s sex life is fucking phenomenal. It always has been,” I say. Just when you think sex can’t get any better, Isabella pulls something out of her bag of tricks, and I’m a fucking fiend for it all.

“You took it too far,” Teo says at the same time Enzo says, “That’s fucking gross.”

I chuckle to myself, remembering I can’t talk about my sex life with these guys since it’s their sister.

“Alright, enough of that. What’s going on?” Teo asks, getting right down to business.

I texted him on my way over here asking if we could have a chat. Leo and Dante learned some interesting information today I know Teo and Enzo will want to hear.

“Remember how my dad went down to Miami to meet with the cartel?”

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