Page 116 of The Woman in the Hollow
“Have I mentioned how much I love how you love my family?” he asked, making my heart go melty.
He did mention it. Constantly. And it never failed to give me the gooey feeling.
What’s even more important, they were starting to feel likemyfamily too.
Was it still a little new for that? Yes. But also, we were heading there. At least, it seemed that way.
“Ew, you’re all sweaty,” I grumbled as his arms went around me and his back pressed to mine.
“We can fix that by getting you sweaty too…”
And, well, I was never going to turn down that offer.
“You can have me for half an hour,” I told him as his hand slid down my belly.
“Why do we have a time limit?” he asked as his hand pressed between my thighs, making me immediately start to second-guess giving him one.
“Because you got home late,” I reminded him. I didn’t bother to ask where he was. Family business was Family business. Which, in a way, meant it was none of my business. In a good way. In a way that meant he was protecting me from it, both in a literal way but also in a legal way. If I didn’t know, I couldn’t be compelled to tell the police.
So when there were meetings with the other men, or when Dante got a call in the middle of dinner and had to leave, or when he was woken up in the middle of the night, I knew not to question him and to trust that he and his Family were doing everything in their power to keep their loved ones safe and provided for.
That was what mattered.
That said, sometimes the Family stuff did put a crimp in our plans.
“And we don’t want to be late to dinner,” I reminded him as his fingers started to toy with me.
“Fashionably late,” he told me as he yanked down my pants and panties.
Yeah, we ended up being just a little bit more than fashionably late.
But everyone else had been in our shoes before. They understood.
Even the matriarch shot us a knowing smile as the new man in her life patted her hand on the table.
Giulia had found herself some love.
Which in no way impacted her very plans to hook up Domenico, who was just as reluctant as Giulia was relentless.
It was a diabolical plan.
And I was loving every second of it.
Takethatfor invading my privacy.
And, what’s better, Domenico only respected me more because of it.
Win/win.
“Now that everyone is here, can we order?” Valley asked. “I’m starved.”
“Not everyone is here yet,” Giulia said in a voice that we all immediately knew not to trust.
Since Domenico wasn’t joining us, it was Valley’s face that fell.
“You didn’t,” she groaned.
“Oh, there he is now! Over here, dear!” Giulia called to the man who just entered the restaurant.
