Page 123 of Ruthless God

“What was that?” I asked when I heard her mumbling something against my chest.

“You love me,” she breathed out, her animated gray eyes telling me she couldn’t believe it.

I frowned. “You seem surprised?”

She shook her head and shrugged, not saying anything.

“Then I must not have been doing a good job of showing you just how much I fucking love you,” I said. That had been a mistake on my part. One I wouldn’t be making again.

Her bottom lip trembled as tears filled her eyes.

“Baby,” I said, feeling my heart shattering at the sight of her sadness.

“I love you too.”

“Fuck,” was all I managed to get out, feeling all the air depleting from my lungs. I leaned down and pressed a hard kiss on her lips, reveling in the feel of her in my arms.

“I’m sorry,” she whispered against my lips when I pulled away.

“Why are you sorry?”

“For inviting Lina into our home and putting you in a position of having her harass you.”

My eyebrow rose over her words. I wouldn’t quite put it as harassment. More like an annoyance.

“Doesn’t matter,” I said, pressing my finger to her lips when it looked like she wanted to say something to that. “It really doesn’t. All that matters is you and me. Understand?”

She smiled softly at me, making my heart beat heavily in my chest. “Understand.”

30

MASSIMO

Her confession made me weak.

It also made me feel like I could take on anything, no matter what.

But fuck, did it make me weak.

I already had my siblings as my weakness.

But Luna?

This was completely different.

I wouldn’t survive losing her.

I knew it. I had wanted her love, but how had I not known just how weak it was going to make me? How terrified?

I needed to act to protect my family.

Peace wouldn’t be possible, not as long as the Bratva still ruled the East. I knew that.

So how was I going to make sure this war didn’t take away all that I held dear?

I was sitting in the office of one of my clubs, thinking this over, when Romeo called.

“Yeah?”

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