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All fucking mine.
I move over her, cover her body with mine and thrust into her before she can even gasp.
She cries out, loud and raw, eyes flying open as I bottom out in one sharp, deep stroke.
“Angelo—!”
“Shh,” I soothe, breath ragged. “I couldn’t wait.”
She moans, arms pulling at the ties, wrists twisting.
“I need to touch you,” she begs, voice breaking.
“Not yet.”
I drive into her again, harder this time. Her head falls back, lips parted, eyes fluttering shut.
“Please—”
Her voice is so soft, so fucking desperate, it breaks something in me.
I reach up and tear the silk free, her arms falling down instantly grabbing my face, my back, my hair, like she can’t decide which part of me she needs most.
She clings.
And all I want is to claim.
I thrust hard and slow. Every thrust fueled by the nights I spentachingfor her, the years I spent without her. Her nails rake down my back and I don’t stop. I want her to leave marks. I want to feel them when she’s gone from this bed, if she ever dares to leave. She said she’ll stay, but what if—what if I’m not enough?
Her mouth crashes into mine, messy, frantic—and then she breathes it against my lips, like a promise ripped from her soul:
“I’m yours.”
My thrusts falter.
Her forehead presses to mine.
“I’ll always be yours. Youhaveme, Angelo,” she breathes again. “No one else… no one ever could.”
I snap.
My hand fists the sheets beside her head as I drive into her one last time and come hard, groaning her name, her praise, everything I never say but feel in every goddamn cell of my body.
She holds me like she’s never letting go.
And for one perfect moment, I believe her.
Chapter 55
Adriana Scarlet
The sun is just beginning to rise, streaks of gold and soft pink filtering through the curtains, casting a warm glow across the bed.
Angelo’s arm is heavy across my waist. His body, wrapped around mine, is a cocoon of heat. His breath ghosts against the back of my neck, steady. Soft. Safe.
And for the first time in my life… I feel calm.
Even with the war still looming, calm is over me because this man is mine.
