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ALEX
After the masquerade party,I saw Luca most days. Sometimes, he swung by Wellington Manor to take me to breakfast or dinner. Other times, he surprised me by sending clothing and jewelry.
Despite his kindness, I knew Luca was the villain in my story. He was never sweet or decent. Most of the time, he scared the shit out of me.
There was something off about Luca. It was like someone had taken all the good parts of him and then tried to sew him back together but stitched them wrong.
On Saturday night, hundreds of people crowded around the Olympic-sized pool at the Salvatore Estate. Couples were making out in the pool, while some played drinking games as others shouted commands from their chairs. Strings of fairy lights floated above us, dangling from the trees like stars against the dark sky.
Rap music cranked through the outdoor speakers, and as if the beat made everyone lose their minds, a group of girls in bikinis jumped up on the table where Luca sat with his brothers. They gyrated against each other, tugging on each other’s tops, showing too much skin.
Luca didn’t even look at them.
They could have been naked and sucking his cock, and his eyes still would have found mine. He bobbed his head to the music, his eyes shooting across the pool to me.
I’d been avoiding him most of the night, but I was all alone after Aiden left me to get a drink with two girls. He was as much of a manwhore as the Salvatore brothers. I figured I would not see him for the rest of the night while the Barbie lookalikes kept him entertained.
Luca raised his hand and beckoned me with his finger. I shook my head. Screw him and his demands. He owned everyone in Devil’s Creek, but the handsome prince would never own me. I only made himthinkhe could.
Luca was tall and handsome, with a perfect Roman nose, a powerful jaw, and a thick head of black hair he kept short on the sides and spiked in the front. Dark tattoos branding his chest peeked out from his open, short-sleeved shirt. He never showed his back to anyone but me. Apart from his brothers, no one knew about the secrets etched into his skin.
As I walked past Luca’s table, he hooked his arm around my thigh and tugged me onto his lap. He pulled my back against his chest, holding me down by my stomach. “Stop playing games with me, Drea.”
“I like games,” I taunted.
Luca’s hand snaked up my stomach, his fingers grazing the bottom of my breast. He tugged on the string of my bikini bottoms with his other hand. “We both know who will win this game.”
To torture him, I rocked my hips to the song’s beat, grinding my ass on his dick. He dug his fingers into my hips. “If you don’t calm down, baby girl, I’m going to whip out my dick and come all over your tits.”
I turned to face him and straddled his thighs, throwing my arms around his neck. My lips brushed against his, and he sucked my bottom lip into his mouth.
“You know the rules, Luca.”
“Fuck the rules.” He cupped my sex over the thin fabric. “Your pussy is mine.”
“Just because you claimed something doesn’t mean it’s yours.”
His fingers slipped beneath my chin. “That’s exactly what it means.”
A wave of heat rushed over my skin as I continued dancing, losing myself to the music, trying to ignore his massive cock digging into my thigh. He was so big I felt him everywhere. I wondered what it would feel like to lose my virginity to Luca. He wanted to be the only man to fuck me. Nothing excited him more than the promise of getting what he thought wasowedto him.
“What would you give for one night with me?”
“What do you have in mind?”
“What did you say your father promised you?”
“The most beautiful woman in the world.”
As the song ended, I slid off his lap and fixed my bikini top and bottoms. “Good luck finding her.”
Luca stood to his full height and hooked his arm around me, yanking me into his chest.
He cupped my breast like he wanted to rip it from my body, his other hand flying up to my throat. “I already found her.”
My brother stormed through the crowd, shoving Luca in the arm as he ripped me from his grasp. Aiden got in his face. “Stay the fuck away from my sister, Salvatore. She doesn’t want you. Get that through your thick skull.”