Page 5 of Arwen's Rapture (Night's Bliss 2)

He breaks his mouth from mine, lifts himself off my body, and draws a whimper from my lips at losing him inside me.

“Don’t worry,cuore mio. I’m not done with you tonight.” He smirks, pulling me from the desk. “Let’s get you cleaned up, and then I’ll take you home.”

“Okay,” I whisper longingly. “Are you going to do what we just did? Um, you taking me the way you did.”

Cedric wraps his arms around my waist and grins. “Arwen,cuore mio, I intend to take you in a lot of ways, but until just now, you weren’t ready for hard. You needed what I’ve given you. Now I’ll show you even more. All of it, baby, I promise you’ll love.”

Well, okay then.

CHAPTERTHREE

CEDRIC

I move between Arwen’s bare legs and lean into snag a bite of the cookie she’s holding up to her mouth. It’s nearly two in the morning, and we’re in the kitchen since I forgot to feed Arwen before ravishing her for hours on end. After taking her at the club, I couldn’t help myself. I was gonna talk to her first, tell her about the conversation I had with her brother. But I didn’t get to it. Not when she kissed me the way she did, giving me the invite into her body. And that damn G-string she’d been wearing underneath the skirt.

“Back off, this is my cookie. Get your own.” She giggles and shoves at my chest but wraps her legs around my waist. Arwen knows I’m not going anywhere, but still, she makes it known without using words that she wants me right where I am.

My beautiful woman has come a long way in the short amount of time she’s been free of her family.

I chuckle, take a bite of her cookie and lean away. “Why get my own when yours is just as good.”

Arwen giggles and shakes her head.

A shadow out of the corner of my eye catches my attention, and I stiffen and look in the direction to find Eliya turning around and walking away.

Damn.

I swear something is up with that woman. Every time we’re at the table for breakfast, she gives Arwen a dirty look but also Eliya has tried to approach me several times.

I don’t know what she’s playing at, but I’m not taking the bait. I need to talk to Finley and Mara-Lee about it, I just haven’t found a chance.

“Are you okay?” Arwen asks, touching my cheek softly.

“Yeah,cuore mio. I was just thinking,” I murmur, giving her waist a squeeze.

“Was that Eliya that turned and walked away?” she whispers. “I don’t think she likes me.”

I sigh, knowing my woman is just as watchful as the others. “Yeah, it was her.”

“You know she wants you for herself,” she states cautiously, a look of worry entering her gaze.

“Don’t worry about her,cuore mio. I’m not going to leave you for anyone. Eliya especially. She’s just got it in her head, she’s supposed to be with me because her family made a deal with mine that she and I would marry.”

“Oh, well, um, okay.” She sets the cookie down on the napkin next to her. “Why didn’t you want to marry her?”

“Cuore mio, I don’t have anything to do with that side of my family. Those who are associated with the Gheata family are nothing good. I’d rather have my dick cut off than be connected to them,” I declare.

Arwen’s eyes widen at the dire methods I would go not to be associated with them. “You would do that to yourself?”

“If worst-case scenario called for it, then yeah, Arwen, I would,” I mutter, my grip at her waist tightens. “My half siblings are a piece of work, and because of them, I lost my sister. She was my world other than my mother at the time.”

“I’m sorry,” she whispers, sliding her hands up to cup either side of my face. “I . . . don’t know what else to say that could make the pain of losing your sister go away.”

“Nothing you can do,cuore mio. All I can do is live my life and savor the good memories I have with her,” I say, tilting my head to touch my forehead to hers. “We’ve both lived through some fucked up shit at the hands of our fathers, but I’m not them, and you aren’t either.”

“No, I’m not. To them I was a toy. One they could do as they pleased. Without Danti or Amer finding out, my uncle Stefano would punish me. His punishments included allowing his men to have me. The first time I was barely fourteen,” she says.

That last part kills me. How did her brothers not know what was going on? Wait, she said Danti and Amer, what about her other brother Benito?

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