Page 29 of Bones

Taking a seat across from her, I watch her continue to eat. “We’ll be doing things differently. It’s clear you cannot be left alone.”

She glances at me and trembles slightly. “I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.”

I scowl at her. “No it won’t, because I won’t allow it. You could have hurt yourself, Butterfly.”

“If you aren’t leaving me alone, then what’s going to happen to me?”

Smirking at her, I say, “You’ll come with me wherever I go. It means you may see things you don’t want to, but there’s no other option.”

Setting her fork down, she gazes at me. “I’m full.”

I nod. “Come here.”

Standing up, she walks over to me and I move my chair back, and pull her onto my lap. Placing my hand on her chin, I tilt her head back, forcing her eyes to meet mine. “Are you having flashbacks, Butterfly?”

“No,” she whispers, and it’s obvious to me she’s lying. Whatever this Manny asshole did to her must have been worse than I knew. Eventually she’ll open up to me and tell me everything, but for now I’ll let it go.

“I’m mad at you,” she breathes.

“I know, Butterfly.”

Wrapping my arms around her waist, I pull her into my chest. She’s reluctant at first, but eventually lays her head on my shoulder. With a long drawn out sigh, Athena says, “How can you miss someone you hate?”

I chuckle softly. “You can’t. Wife, you don’t hate me. You only wish you did.”

“Something is obviously wrong with me,” she says, and I feel the warmth of her breath on my neck, causing me to grit my teeth. I’m trying to not act like an animal, as she calls it, with her tonight but she’s making my cock so hard, sitting on my lap like this.

“Why?”

She giggles softly. “You forced me to marry you. Kept me in a cage, then chained me to the wall, like someone does a pitbull they’ve grown tired of. Had sex with me whether I wanted it or not. I am nothing more than your captive. You don’t care about me, but then I miss you when you’re gone. I don’t know what mental illness that is, but it’s definitely one.”

I grab her face in both my hands, and my voice comes out in a far more threatening growl than I intend. “You think I don’t care about you? I was fucking terrified you were going to get hurt.” I swallow hard. “Or worse. You are nothing more than my captive? You’re my goddamn wife, and I’d lay down my life to protect you, without a second thought.”

A tear rolls down her cheek, and I pull her closer, running my tongue up her cheek to taste her beautiful tear.

“Why do you do that?”

I groan quietly. “Because I’m obsessed with you, Butterfly. I want to take everything you have, including your tears. When I’m deep inside you, I want more. If I could crawl into your soul, I would. If you cry, I’ll consume your tears. If you bleed, I’ll take that too. There is no part of you I won’t devour. Everything you have to give, I now own. I don’t deserve it, but I’ll take it anyway. Every man who has ever harmed you, dies. Anyone that considers it now, dies. Protecting you is the only thing that matters to me now.”

I run my hand down her body until it settles on her stomach. “And our baby, that I have every intention of putting inside you.”

CHAPTER NINETEEN

ATHENA

Turning around on his lap, I straddle him while he watches me curiously. Leaning forward, I run my tongue up the side of his neck, thoroughly enjoying the groan it elicits.

“Bones,” I moan, and he immediately corrects me.

“That’s not my name for you, baby. The rest of the world knows me as Bones, but my wife calls me Luca. Always.”

Dragging my fingers through his hair, I press my lips to his skin as his scent surrounds me. It’s everything Luca. His heat. His smell. His hands digging into my hips.

My husband is everything I shouldn’t desire, but do.

I scrape my teeth down his neck, and he growls as he grabs my hair. “Wife, you better stop if you don’t want to be fucked.”

Leaning forward, I whisper in his ear, “Luca, show me you missed me too.”

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