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Didn’t stop until I was ten blocks away.
With every step, I remembered moments between us.
The way he had kissed me.
The way I gave myself to him freely, without reservation.
The way I’d shared parts of myself that I’d shared with no one else.
“So stupid, Molly,” I said.
“Don’t be so hard on yourself,doll.”
I didn’t have to look to recognize the voice.
I looked at Fabiano and the two huge men flanking him.
The meager breakfast I’d fought to hold on to came out in a rush. Fabiano looked like he wanted to cut my tongue out when my puke splashed on his shoes.
And to think I’d been sure this day couldn’t get worse…
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Enzo
“So areyou going to take my advice?” Nico said.
I licked my lips. “I’ll consider it.”
“You should. You can make her understand,” he said.
“Thanks, cousin,” I said, patting Nico on the shoulder. “Let’s go.”
Before we left the private dining area, Nico scanned the room and then the hallway. He had always been alert, ready for anything. But now that he had found Hope, he was even more so.
“Hope,” he said when we entered the main dining room.
He smiled when she looked at him, and I wasn’t even sure if he realized it. I wondered if Molly did that to me. Wouldn’t be surprised if she did.
This thing with Molly was…wild. She was like a storm, beautiful, dangerous, incapable of being contained.
That was the only way to describe it.
Describe her.
Molly was everything I never knew I needed, everything I never knew I wanted. But now that I had her, I was determined to never let her go.
If I were a good man, one worthy of her, I would have let her go live her life.
But I wasn’t a good man.
I never had been.
She was mine.
There was no denying it.
No reason to try to fight it.