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MAEL

I came to the location. It was remote, empty, and, as I had already guessed, nowhere near where the fucker was holding the women.

The only people around were Tacchini himself and a handful of guards. The fucker wasn’t stupid. He came prepared. And he wouldn’t be easy to kill.

I threw the head down at his shoes. He looked down at it and smiled a little before bending down and unzipping the bag. The ugly mug of Salvatore Gallo came out.

“I did as you asked. Your turn.”

The fucker laughed. I resisted pulling out my knife and plunging it deep into his heart.

“Not yet. You thought a couple of heads would get you in the door?”

I crossed my arms over my chest casually and looked at him. “What would get me in?”

“Patience, Beckett. Why don’t you do me a few more favors, yeah?”

I narrowed my eyes at him. I hadn’t thought it was going to be easy. But the fucker was really testing me.

“Fine, a few more favors.”

His smile widened, and I imagined plunging my knife into him over and over again, ensuring it would hurt right before he took his last breath. He was damn lucky he wasn’t who I was after.

I walked away first, leaving the head there for him to deal with. Even if they decided to leave it there, there was nothing that could tie me to it anyhow.

I made the small walk out of there and to where Theo was parked, hidden from view. He had insisted on coming along in case I needed backup.

“What happened?” he asked when I entered the car and closed the door behind me.

“He wants a few favors.”

Theo didn’t say anything for a beat. Then, “We never thought this was going to be easy.”

I nodded. “I know. I just didn’t realize how annoying it was going to be.”

“So what are you going to do?”

“See what these favors are that he wants and do them. We’ve come this far. No point in turning back around now.”

“We always have a choice to turn back around.”

“What about all those women you insist on me saving?”

Theo was quiet. I let out a small sigh. “Yeah. We can’t walk away. You would be thinking about that for the rest of your life. Sometimes, being soft will get you killed.”

Theo shrugged. “You would never let that happen.”

Damn right, I would never let that happen, but fuck if I didn’t wish he wasn’t so soft.

“Let’s go,” I said.

Theo nodded and pulled the car out, driving away.

* * *

I came home to Lia.

I didn’t know when Tacchini would be calling in his “little favors,” so for now, I was going to spend as much time with my girl as possible.

When I entered the apartment, she was sitting on the couch with a laptop in front of her. I walked over and saw she had a movie on. I playfully poked her. “What are you doing?”

“What does it look like I’m doing?” she said sourly. “I’m watching a movie.”

“I can see that.” I paused the movie and pulled the laptop away from her, setting it down on the coffee table. She narrowed her eyes before bringing her gaze back to me. She did not look happy with me. I held in a smile. I could guess why.

“Go away. You’re annoying me,” she grumbled.

I let out a small chuckle. “I just got here.”

“I’ve been annoyed.”

I crouched down so that we were at eye level with each other. “What’s got my girl so annoyed?”

She crossed her arms over her chest. “You know what.”

I did.

I came inside her. And if she was waiting for an apology from me over that, she would be waiting forever. I sat on the floor and reached over, hauling her with me and seating her on my lap.

She let out a squeal in surprise over the sudden move, and I grabbed her hips, pushing her down until she could feel my hard-on pressed up against her. She gasped, her nails digging inside my biceps.

“Fuck, but when are you not hard?” she gasped out.

I laughed, moving her up and down my length. Her nails dug in a little deeper.

“Mael,” she mumbled. Suddenly, fire flashed in her eyes. “We’re not doing this until we talk properly.”

I nodded in agreement and lifted her up. It took some work, considering I was still seated on the floor, but not impossible as I got her up high enough for me to pull the baggy shorts she was wearing, along with her panties, down those miles-long, shapely legs of hers.

I threw those across the room before it registered in her mind what had happened. She was wet. I could smell her.

How fucking addictive.

I pushed my hand in between her legs, playing with her a bit and getting her ready for me.

“Mael!” she screeched, making me wince, her legs shaking from the sensation. I pulled the zipper of my jeans down and freed my aching cock before pushing her back down on it.

She clenched down on me automatically, making me see stars.

“Fuck, kitten,” I gritted out, my hand grabbing one tit and playing with her nipple through her shirt. She wasn’t wearing a bra, allowing me to feel everything, even with the shirt in the way.

She let out a small moan before she struggled to get away. I grabbed her hips and held her still. “If you don’t want me to come inside you, I suggest you don’t move, my beautiful girl.”

She slapped my chest, but at least she wasn’t moving anymore.

Fuck, but this was like the sweetest kind of torture.

“Okay, let’s talk.”

“Can you even concentrate?” she asked snarkily, the effect a little lost considering I could hear the tremor in her voice.

I laughed. “Don’t underestimate me, baby girl.”

“I would never. I should have thought you would do something as crazy as this and hide from you. Or at least, wear something that wasn’t so easy to take off.”

Her words made me laugh. Fuck, but she was an amusing little thing. I didn’t think I would ever get bored. Good thing, too, considering I planned on spending a lifetime with her, and if reincarnation were a fucking thing, I would find her in the next life and the next and the fucking next. She would never be able to escape me, no matter what.

“You really think that would help?” I asked. “You really think there would ever be a place for you to hide where I won’t find you?” I cupped her cheek. “I will always find you.”

I could see her softening up a bit from my words.

She let out a small sigh. “Don’t you think we are a little too young, too new for kids? We’re not even thirty yet!”

“Young and new,” I repeated, wondering if this was what she was really worried about.

She nodded. “Yes, new. I know it doesn’t feel like it, but we haven’t been together all that long.”

I shrugged. “When you know, you know.”

“That shouldn’t be how this works.”

“I don’t think there are any sets of rules we’re supposed to follow when it comes to things like this.” I shifted, jolting her a little. She gasped at the sensation, making me smile.

She glared at me and squeezed my dick once more. Fuck, maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all.

I pinched her nipple in retaliation.

“Mael!” she yelped from the sharp pain.

I chuckled, bringing her in closer to me. “Do you think I would ever be capable of leaving you?”

She looked down at my chest, but I knew she could hear the truth of my words. I knew this was what she was worried about when she said we were still so new.

“Do you think there would ever be another woman out there who could turn my head the way you do simply by existing? Who could drive me this crazy half the time?”

“You got the crazy part right,” she mumbled. “But I don’t think it’s because of me.”

I smiled. What a cheeky little girl.

“Do you?”

She let out a small sigh. “Doesn’t it scare you? These… feelings you have for me?”

“No,” I answered without any hesitation. “It is something I had already accepted as reality. As for the young part, I don’t think it matters.”

“Of course it does. What if we fuck up our kids?”

I nodded. “Maybe with me as their father?—”

She shook her head and cupped my cheek. “I didn’t mean it like that. You’ll be a great father. You’ll be protective and indulgent. And you’ll love our child with everything in you.”

I narrowed my eyes, and she pulled her hand back. “You think you’re going to be the one to fuck them up?”

She shrugged. “I wouldn’t have thought so before, but with everything with my dad…”

“Fuck him. Don’t let him affect any future plans. And it’s almost laughable that you think you’re going to be the one to fuck up our children. I would laugh if I wasn’t so fucking pissed off.”

“Mael…”

I shook my head and cupped her cheeks with both hands until she looked at me. “You’re not going to be the one to fuck up our kids. It’s just not possible. Not when you are everything good about the two of us. I just want a child who is as good and as perfect as you are. I know that can’t be possible with my genes in the mix, but I’m selfish. There is just something about knowing a perfect little child in this world is half mine.”

She didn’t say anything. I could see her softening up to the idea. “I like the thought of it just being the two of us for a while.”

I shrugged. “Perhaps so. We can just let nature take the lead.”

She shook her head. “Not with your libido. We would be fucking every day if you had it your way.”

I laughed and moved my hands down to her hips, rotating them against me.

She closed her eyes and let out a small groan.

“You wouldn’t call it making love?”

“Not the way you do it,” she mumbled, moving her hips against me on their own accord.

Fuck me. Pleasure shot up and down my spine sharply.

“Then fuck me, baby,” I said.

Her hips moved faster.

I reached down for the hem of her shirt and pulled it up and off her, baring her tits to my gaze. I licked my lips, my mouth watering at the sight. I leaned down and covered one pebbled tip with my mouth, sucking it in and rolling it around with my teeth.

Her back arched, and she fucked me harder and faster, pushing up and down my length with enough force that it was taking everything in me not to spill my cum inside her right then and there.

I bit her nipple.

She let out a small yell and slapped my arm. “Mael!”

I let go of her with a pop of my mouth and moved on to the other nipple. Wouldn’t want it to feel neglected.

I fondled the other one with my hand, playing with her a bit as she used my body to get herself off.

I let go of her and pulled back to take in the sight of my girl. Fuck, but she was like a goddess.

I reached down for her clit, circling over the bundle of nerves a few times before I felt her convulsing against me.

Her mouth opened in a silent scream, her body shuddering violently as the orgasm crashed through her. I watched her come undone, fucking loving everything about the way she looked, from the sweat gathering in a light sheen over her skin, the flushness of her cheeks and chest, and down to the glazed-over look in her eyes as the pleasure held her captive.

“That’s it. You’re such a fucking good girl, coming for me like that,” I murmured close to her ear, my thumb still working over her fat clit, trying to get myself under control. An almost impossible feat, considering I could feel a gush of wetness seeping out of her.

I pushed her back until she was lying flat on the floor and pulled her hips up until her pussy was close to my mouth.

She shook her head, already knowing where I was going with this. “I’m still sensitive.”

I smiled wickedly at her. “Good.”

I covered her entire pussy with my mouth, playing with her tight entrance with my tongue. She let out a scream as I ate her out with more vigor.

“Fuck, Mael, please.”

I pulled the lips of her pussy in between my teeth, playfully nipping on them, before moving over to her clit. Her legs jerked as she tried to kick me away. Luckily, I saw that coming and pushed them out of the way and continued to work her clit over.

Tears clung to the corners of her eyes, her back twisting from side to side.

She screamed out my name when she came.

I didn’t give her a chance to recover when I laid myself on top of her, pushing her legs apart and shoving my dick deep inside.

I closed my eyes as blackness took over the edge of my vision.

Fuck, but she felt so good, and I was just moments away from losing it completely.

I pressed her body down on the floor.

I fucked her with long, hard strokes of my dick, pushing against her until I was sure she could feel everything.

Tears rolled down the side of her face, her walls clenching around me, milking me. I buried my face in her neck, biting hard on the skin there as I came.

My orgasm triggered her own, and she soon followed me, her body struggling against mine as if she were trying and failing to hold on to her own bearings.

“Fucking hell,” I gritted out when I expelled all my cum inside her, feeling the wet, messy heat between our skin as a result.

And everything seemed to calm down after. I didn’t move. And she didn’t either.

I didn’t know how long we stayed like that, savoring the moment, before I could feel my arms going numb from trying to keep my weight off her.

I pulled back and lifted her up. She wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed her face close to my chest.

I didn’t say anything as I brought us to the bathroom, placing her on the counter. She gasped a little when her bare bottom touched the cold surface. I smiled and took her in for a bit before I leaned over to the bathtub and turned on the water.

It took a while for the tub to fill. I added in some of the bubble bath shit that I knew she favored before shutting off the faucet and going back for my girl.

“We’re taking a bubble bath?” she asked, sounding surprised as I sat down in it with her in my arms. I leaned back and took her with me.

“Yes,” I said, holding her close.

She let out a small sigh. “Okay.”

I tightened my arms around her, feeling contentment hit me. And like how it always was with her, feeling all those loud voices and loud sounds in my head silenced for once. Feeling my monster lie down in rest, even if it was just for a while.

“Okay.” And that was all that needed to be said.