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What he doesn’t say but rings just as loud is that he won’t meet my deadline.

I sigh, palming his chest. His strong beating heart anchors me. “What will we do, then?”

“Kill Adamo?” he suggests, as if it’s that’s so easy.

I shake my head. “And then I would have to investigate his death.”

His jaw sets in a hard line, looking at a point fixed as if it’s a target he wants to annihilate. “And we wouldn’t want you to lie to your precious Augustus.”

His name alone conjures his presence like a thorn poking at our frail bubble. Enzo refuses to understand my duty.

“We have no future,” I murmur and stand up, giving him my back.

That’s a bad idea. He yanks me to him by my elbow and grips my chin, making me look into his eyes.

He digs a finger into my temple. “I am there, Luciana. And I’ll make sure I stay.” Then his fingertips slide down my face and he sticks two fingers in my mouth, making me gag on them. “Mine to kiss and fuck. This mouth that challenges and provokes me, moans and screams my name.”

I am a hot mess, and he isn’t done, wanting to make his point clear.

He cups my neck, squeezing lightly. “Your life is in my hands.” He palms my chest and the organ behind kicks up, as if aware of its owner—clawing at the walls to flee to him. Then he moves to my breasts, he gropes just because he can.“Also fucking mine for now, because in the near future they will nurture my kids.”

I think I come a bit if it’s possible. Overcome with emotions, tears gather in my eyes. I don’t even try to hold on to them because he has this uncanny ability to unravel me.

He moves to my belly, palming it. “In here, you’ll grow my children, and I can’t fucking wait to see you all swollen, carrying my offspring—my lovely assassin. With us as parents, they will be undefeatable.” Then he moves to my pussy, cupping it. “This I made bleed for me, broke her in, and I will fuck this hole of yours for the rest of my life. Fill her again and again.”

I am soaking my bikini bottoms so much, caught in this sexual trance.

“Every inch of you from the inside out is mine. Deny, lie, refuse, but it won’t change facts.”

I shake my head, biting my bottom lip so hard to keep from telling him the undeniable truth. That in such a short amount of time, he took everything in me apart and made me love him so much. I don’t want to lose him or this beautiful dream of our future.

With dexterous moves, he removes my bikini and pushes me on the lounge seat. Whiny, needy sounds burst out of me, echoing around us.

Rocking his hips, he drives into me, filling me up with one brutal stroke. He fucks me like a savage, thrusting inside of me again and again. My poor pussy gets battered, his balls slapping against my ass in a wild thump.

I dig my nails into the cushion, and my head hangs. He’s on a mission, knowing exactly what he wants from me, and hewon’t stop. Wouldn’t it be ironic if he were the one to kill me with too much passion? This man is all fire and intensity that I can only light up for him.

His feelings are in the open. I am the one hiding.

“Tell me what I want to hear, Luciana,” he growls, rutting into me.

My pussy makes these squelching sounds while pleasure ravishes me.

I can’t think straight and when he holds himself inside of me, I think I might die. Too much rapture. Too much ecstasy. Too much fullness. He’s too much to take, but either I pledge my loyalty, confess my feelings for him, or he’ll fuck the soul out of me in his quest to make me surrender.

A stuttered breath follows a shaky “I love you.”

I can’t believe I said that, and I’d take it back if I could. I could have said anything, yet the bomb rolled off my tongue and exploded between us.

I thrash, wanting to get away, put some distance between us.

He overpowers me, making me take him and accept the truth of my words.

“You do, don’t you? Isn’t it better now, with no secrets between us? Neither of us hiding.”

He pulls out of me, and I swear my pussy is a damn masochist because it clenches, wanting the monster to fill her back up.

Sitting on the chaise lounge, he waits for me to go to him of my own accord.