Chapter 23
why I feel like
I wake up not knowing what time it is of like I’m on a cloud. Why is there
“Good morning angel“, Luciano’s low, husky voice says.
“Good morning” I whisper back. “Are we on a mattress?”
“Mmhhmm” he hums in response.
“In a closet?”
“Mmhhmm” he hums again while drawing circles on my
y stomach slowly.
hand around my waist and a body against my back?
“How did you get a mattress this big inside a closet?” I say as I feel around both sides of us to determine if what I’m thinking is correct in that this is indeed that giant ass cloud bed I saw in his room last night.
1 enlisted Luca’s help, and a few disagreements on how to move it, we settled on brute force, and here we are.”
I giggle at the imagine of that in my head while I settle back down into the crook of his arm so he will hopefully draw those nice feeling circles on my back. Which he does.
“As much as I absolutely love having no idea what time it is and feeling like nothing but else in this world exists but us right here and now, I do have to ask….Why are we in a closet Angel?”
“Well..uh.. I do believe that you were the one that brought me into this exact closet and then yourself so…”
“Angel…” he says half pleasingly.
I let out a breath. Fuck it.
My father trained me to fight. From before I could even remember. He would show me moves, how to counter, block, all of that. He would spend every spare second he had teaching me. It was great, my older brothers of course hated it. Anyway, when I was six, my father brought me to the ring we had at our home, just like any other day. I took my stance ready to begin and he punched me right in the face as hard as he could. He didn’t stop. He beat me like man and told me that this was the next part of my training. My brother’s had to drag me from the ring when he was finished. They took me back to my room but this time my father had told them to put me in the closet. He had put a lock on the outside and he shut the door and told me that until I was able to hit him back, that would be my place“.
I told Luciano about the punishments or “training” I received. Leaving out the part about being trained specifically to be an assassin. He didn’t interrupt, didn’t stop drawing those circles on my back and when I was finished and simply said, “Thank you” and kissed my forehead.
“For what?”
“For telling me about that. I cannot begin to understand how much strength you have to be able to have
gone through that and still be here.”
“You look me to your place under the stars that night, Luciano and it was beautiful, so utterly beautiful…This right here, this is my place. I know it’s fucked up, but in here, the world is quiet, I am safe, I’m in control. This dark corner of the world is mine…and I will understand if you don’t want to be in it.”
He turned so that we were now face to face. Even in the pitch black I could tell. All of my senses were heightened here, and I could feel his breath tickle my face.
this world I would rather be than by your side. In the light, in the dark, it doesn’t matter, as long as I get to be in it
“Amore, there is nowhere in this with you.”
He glides his hands up along my face, finding my lips and bringing his to kiss me. He starts slowly, and heat between my legs resurfaces. I placed my hands on his chest and let him control me with his mouth…
knock knock
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Chapter 21.
“Uh. Don?” Lucas” voice comes from the other side of the door.
“This better be an emergency Lacal” Luciano crawls his way to the end of the mattress and opens the door.
“Oh fuck!” he says as he stumbles back. “Why is it so bright!?”
I giggle at his antics.
“Well this is cute, can I join?” Luca says
Luciano grumbles as he crawls out from the closet and stands. Luca going in close to whisper something in his ear I can’t hear. It must be important because Luciano immediately composes himself and looks back to me.
care of some business. I’ll send some food up for you. Why don’t you freshen up and relax for a bit?”
“Angel I have to take ca
“ch
um, what time is it? Because I actually have a shift tonight so I should probably get home.”
“No, no work today.”
nd a life to live thank you”.
“Uh..yes. I have bills to pay and a
He sighs and rubs his face. “The club was hit this morning. It won’t be open until we have it fixed up which means you won’t be working. So you will stay here.”
“What?… Well then, I need to go and find another job in the meantime. I need the money, Luciano,”
money and build up savings in
“No!” he yells, and I visibly flinch at the change of tone. What the fuck is his problem? Some of us need to earn m case we need to run for our life and start again. Wanker.
He sighs and looks to Luca who shrugs at him in some silent understanding.
“Angel, I apologize, but for your safety I need you to stay here. I have many enemies but the one who was and I have been trying for a long time to catch him. I need you here so that I have no distractions while I go out to look for him. If anything were
seen near the club is very dangerous to happen to you, I would never forgive myself. Please, just…just trust me. All of your bills will be paid, I just need you here.”
be expecting to
I sigh and internally roll my eyes. “Okay, go, I’ll stay put, but I’m marking this as an addition to our deal and in return I’ll be participate in the next fight night.”
“No.”
“Yes.” I cross my arms.
www
was a natural in the ring. Hell I’ll even plead with her just so I can watch the next one.”
“On come on Don, from what I heard from the guys Luca prins and winks at me.
uys she was anot
“Two against one! I win!” I say giving Luca a high five.
“Fucking hell, now you two are ganging up on me? We will talk about this later amore,” Luciano grumbles out and kisses my cheek before he leaves with Luca who gives me a quick thumbs up before the bedroom door closes.
