“Yes.But first, you have to release me.”
I have to make this work.One way or the other.
“Okay,” I say as I smooth my skirt down one more time.Why do I still feel naked in front of them?I’m barefoot and haven’t put my tights back on, but I’m hardly cold—not with the underfloor heating.
I sit down, then stand up from the chair and speak as clearly as I can, despite crumbling to ash on the inside.“Given my uncle’s character, I’m a fool to think he’ll just accept the hundred thousand dollars from me and give me our farm back.It was stupid of me to believe otherwise.”
I bite my lip before I continue, surprisingly calm when the last standing bit of my life is going to come crashing down on me.
“As your bride, I want to be afforded certain privileges.One of those is that you help me get my farm back from my uncle at any cost and under any circumstance.”
“Done,” Nico says.
“Okay.”If I bite my lip any harder, I’m going to pierce my skin.“Okay, then.”
Did I make a pact with the devils themselves?Yes, yes, I did.What’s that saying about when you’re in hell?Keep going.Vincenzo pressed a hairbrush to my pussy.Nico spanked me really hard.And Luca wanted me to accept that I’m their bride.I have nothing to lose, but I could gain the farm back, and that’s all that matters.
My gaze mistakenly locks on the three men who just upended my life, but at the same time, could also help me save the farm.I meant what I said about doing whatever it takes to make sure we didn’t lose Twin Orchid.Surely my uncle won’t mess with me now if he knows I’m the Falchi bride.
I realize instantly that I can’t screw up this opportunity.The longer their eyes are on me, the greater the chance they might change their minds and annul the marriage anyway, and I’ll be back where I started.
“Thank you,” I say.“When can we leave?”I’m anxious to get back to Gianna now.I need this matter with the farm resolved.I know the stress of the unknown is eating at my sister, and that’s not good.
“We specifically chose this time period so we could be snowed in with our virgin bride for the next three days at least,” Luca says.
“We won’t leave the cabin until we’ve taken your virginity, your blood on our cocks, our cum anointing your womb, and our gods appeased as dictated by the ancient Falchi La Regola,” Vincenzo adds.
My heart beats so fast and so hard that it echoes around the room with a thunderous roar, and I’m sure they can hear it, too.Images of these three men, nearly twice as big as I am, supremely powerful, with their black hair and dark, smoldering eyes, their bodies chiseled to masculine perfection, towering over my nakedness, flood my mind.
I struggle to breathe, sure I’m going to pass out at the thought of them guiding their cocks inside me—I couldn’t even take one of Vincenzo’s fingers—spreading the most private part of me open.I’m ready to start hyperventilating.I don’t think they realize how sheltered I really am, how I know absolutely nothing about the human male body or what sex with them would entail and feel like except that A goes into B.
I turn blood red from head to toe and flee from the room, but I’m stopped short by Nico’s words.
“You will also no longer be taking the pill, Alessia.”
I spin around, stunned.“How did you know?”My virginity is the bane of my existence and since love and romance is not something that is bound to happen to me, I decided a one-night stand would solve my problem and then I’ll be done with it.I went on the pill for that reason.
“We know everything about you,” Luca says, smiling.That they know I’d been buying contraceptives is utterly insane.
“You have one hour,” he adds before I make a more successful escape
***Chapter Thirteen
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Alessia
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As if I have a playliston repeat for freaking out, I start my mental meltdown from the top all over again.I pace the length of the room Eileen had taken me to before, up and down, until I’m sure I’ll kindle a fire with the fibers of the thick carpet and set myself on fire.
I’m certainly hot enough already and whip my sweater off, leaving me in my bra.Well, I can’t pace half-dressed, so I put it back on again.
Their words beat down on me.They knew everything before I even said a single word.Who I really am, how my uncle was going to trick them into getting me pregnant, and then flaunting the union between our families so he could revive the Passero name.
I tell myself to calm down.I have to think rationally.This worked out even better than I expected.I have more power over my uncle now than that two hundred thousand dollars would have ever given me.He would have found a way to take the money and still keep the farm.I was a fool to think otherwise.
But I have to get back to Gianna.I can see the cracks in the messages I found on my phone.She’s worried and stressed and even said maybe it was time we just left the farm.I knew how much that took out of her to say.I know she died a little on the inside for writing those words.
