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I dropped my gaze to the concrete floor and stared down at the gray surface.
“I’m going to her tonight,” I told him. I’d wanted to leave for Jia’s soon, before it got late. It was nearly seven now, she would have left work around six.
He smiled when I looked back to him. “All night?”
I thought about it and nodded. There was no damn way I was going to Jia’s house to sit and watch her and not touch her the way I wanted.
Kudos to me for trying to resist for the last week and one day. And for keeping the focus on my job.
“Well this is certainly different from the last time.” He pointed out.
It wasn’t true though. He was talking about Elena. She was a woman I’d met at a resort in Ecuador. I liked her but I never experienced the same thing I’d experienced with Jia.
I hated to admit this but I’d never experienced that with anyone. Not even Claire and she was the first person to make me open my heart.
Jia was the next.
Both in different ways. Claire opened it and guided me to who I was supposed to be. She’d helped me find the direction I wanted my life to go in. Set me on the path of good from a very bad life style.
Jia, however, felt like… redemption.
Redemption from wondering around in the dark for all these years. she was that breath of fresh air. Breath of new life breathed into me that made my heart start beating again. it felt like she’d set me on a path too, and it was something I couldn’t ignore. Nor resist.
Damn… I wanted her. I fucking wanted her in every essence of the word and I knew I was bat shit crazy for wanting a woman I wasn’t supposed to have.
The mafia princess.Jesus… I didn’t know what the fuck I was going to do to straighten myself out. all I knew was I was going to her place tonight.
“Xander…” Wes’ took me out of my thoughts. His voice held an edge of warning. “Be careful man. The woman is hot like sin but please don’t forget who she is. The mafia king’s daughter. It could get more messy in a way you don’t want. Remember she’s his price.”
I nodded.
What Wes didn’t realize was, she’d become mine too.
Chapter 23
Jia
I made chicken cannelloni.
Ma taught me how to make it.
It was one of the first meals she ever taught me to make. She said it was simple, but sometimes the simplest of meals were the hardest because it’s hard to get the flavor right.
People expected it to be simple and totally missed out on the flavor.
She taught me how to think of each part, focus on each part and then you’d end up with a meal fit for God himself.
Or in my case, the guy I was trying to impress.
I thought Xander would indeed like my cooking and be impressed by it.
Damn Frankie had liked the smell, but that was all he was getting.
He brought me home from the casino and was hell bent on staying for dinner when he saw me making the meal.
He’d said Pa told him to wait with me until Xander got here.
I was hoping to have a little time to myself to get ready properly, but Frankie was like a shadow. Thank goodness he wasn’t as overbearing as he’d been the other day. Instead he seemed to guess something saucy was up and it was more like he was messing around by being here.
