I brushed her face with my hand. “Are you sure?”
She smiled. “I’ve never been more sure.”
It wasn’t as if I needed to be told twice. Philippa was all I dreamed of day in and day out. With the shock of her arrival wearing off, I was slowly realizing that she was there. My skin was on hers, our lips were able to find each other without obstacle. To say that I was over-the-moon would be an understatement. If she was okay and wanted me, I was in no position to deny that request.
“Fine, but I’m going to take care of you,” I said.
“Yeah,” she replied, a few tears breaking loose from her eyes and sliding down her cheeks. “Take care of me.”
Philippa was still in her maid uniform; a tan dress that stopped just above her knees, with a white apron on the front, and her hair pulled back into a ponytail. My father must have snatched her while she was right in the middle of working. It killed me to think of how afraid she must have been, so all I wanted to do for the rest of the night was cater to her and make her feel safe and secure.
I slid my way down the length of her body until I was at the base of her dress. Slowly enough to feel every inch of her skin as my hands slid up her legs, I rolled it up. I placed gentle kisses inside her thighs and at the base of her stomach as I continued to work my way upwards, finally pulling her dress over her head and throwing it off to the side. I grabbed her waist and rolled her over onto her stomach. I made short work of unlatching her bra and underwear and then grabbed an oil from my bathroom that I liked to use after showers.
Dropping a healthy amount of it onto her back, then I began to smooth it into her skin. Though it was soft already, the oil glistened off of it and made it even gentler. With as soft movements as I could, I started to massage her back. I gave extra attention to shoulders that must have been inordinately strained by the hogtie, along with her legs which must have suffered the same. When I’d covered her back well enough, I moved her to her back and repeated the process.
Rubbing her breasts, I dipped my head in to lick them each, loving the mewls of pleasure I got in response, and when I finally got down to her waist, I dropped to my knees in front of the bed. I dragged her towards me and pulled her legs over my shoulders then ducked between them and placed a firm lick up her slit. She was already wet from the massage and I lapped up as much of it as I could while journeying her heated sex. Her knees clasped my head as I worked, even harder when I poked a finger into her waiting entrance.
What started slowly at first, quickly ramped up as Philippa rolled her hips up to meet my mouth. I crooked my finger up, targeting a sensitive spot and she let out a moan and came, shuddering and drenching my hand.
“Gianni,” she whispered through a breathless moan and it was the sweetest sound.
“Yes, my love?” I kissed the inside of her thigh. My hand was already at the hem of my pants, undoing the belt and zipper. “What do you want? Tell me and I’ll do it for you?”
She combed her fingers through my hair, pushing to bring my gaze up to hers. “I want you inside me.”
“If that is what you wish,” I said.
Philippa’s eyes stayed trained on me as I got to my feet and began to undress. She was a body blusher, and everything from her cheeks to her stomach had a faint, red hue to them. Whether she was doing so on purpose or purely out of instinct, her hand went to her center to rub while she was waiting. How could one woman be so intelligent, so kind, so brave, and at the same time so unbearably sexy? It wasn’t fair. People weren’t supposed to be perfect, but Philippa was.
“Hurry,” she whimpered. “I need you.”
I gave my excited length a few strokes that I knew wouldn’t save me. Stepping up to her, I twitched in my own hand, and when I popped myself into her hole, the heat that found me sent a wave of chills up my spine. Two months it’d been since we were last together, and my body was very aware of it. Philippa’s was as well, as tight as she was the first time we were together, and I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I didn’t want it to be over. Not yet.
But it was going to test my resolve.
I blanketed myself over her, wrapping my arms behind her head and hugging her close to me as I burrowed deeper inside. Philippa’s lips were at my ear and she let out a quiet moan and then bit down on my earlobe, something she’d learned drove me insane. She rocked up against me and I rocked down against her, and it felt like we were both floating on top of the gentle ebb and flow of waves. I imagined taking her far away from Chicago, hopping a boat overseas, and leaving all of the nastiness behind. Maybe we’d be able to do it one day.
No. Wewoulddo it one day.
“Gianni,” she moaned. “I’m gonna come.”
“Me too,Bellissima,” I huffed back to her.
She clenched down on me and though I’d gotten into a practiced rhythm of not releasing inside of her, all of that got thrown away when she held on. I had to pray that we got lucky.
I pressed my lips to hers and swallowed up her moans as I let go and emptied myself inside. The world faded away and there were only Philippa and me for that moment. More than anything in the world, I just wanted to take her and steal off into the night, but I still had my siblings to think about.
There was a vicious cycle that needed to be broken before we could all be free.
14
Philippa
Unfortunately, neither I nor Gianni knew what was up Angelo’s sleeve at any given time, so when his men showed up the next morning to tie me back up and drag me back home, we had no choice but to go along with it. We had no idea if I’d be brought back or not, so out of the view of Angelo’s men who came to collect me, we shared a few long, passionate kisses, and then I was sent on my way.
Thankfully, Gianni was at least able to convince the men that all of the hogties and such weren’t necessary because I wouldn’t fight or run, so a bag was shoved over my head instead of having my entire body stuffed into a sack, and I was loaded into a car driven by Angelo himself.
He chuckled darkly as I got in and hissed, “Aren’t you glad you get to continue to fulfill your purpose?”
