“I hate you, you know.”
“Keep telling yourself that, Susanna. But if you really hated me, you wouldn’t have let me go down on you.”
“Like I have a choice.”
“If you had said no, I wouldn’t have. I know my word doesn’t mean much to you but it’s the truth.”
I stare into his eyes and I know he means what he says. He truly wants me to come to him of my own accord. And I’m afraid to say that it’s sort of working.
“Don’t put me back in that cage. I won’t run. I promise.”
“I’m not sure I trust you.”
“We have to trust each other. If you want me to give myself into you, you have to trust me not to run. And I have to trust you to not treat me like a prisoner.”
“But you are going to run and we both know it.”
I can’t say he’s wrong. The first moment I get to escape, I’m taking it. But… deep down, I know I’ll miss Gabriel more than I want to admit.
“So for now, you’re going back in the cage for the night. My men are gone. They won’t bother you again.”
“What’s going to happen?”
“That all depends on you, doesn’t it?”
His words shake me to my core. Why does it have to be my decision? This would all be easier if Gabriel just took me. Was the villain I need him to be.
But he’s not. At least, not as much as he should be.
With no other choice, I get back into the cage and Gabriel shuts the door behind, locking it. Then I have to watch him leave like what we shared didn’t mean anything to him.
Because it meant something to me.
Gabriel
I can still taste Susanna’s pussy on my lips as I sit in the back booth of my restaurant I own. It’s a classic Italian place. I am an Italian man after all.
I can’t stop thinking of her, in my cage, ready and waiting for me to return to taste her again. She liked it even if she pretends she didn’t. I know she wants it again which is good because I desperately need to make her mine. Somehow.
The bell over the door jingles as someone comes inside. It’s the middle of the day. The restaurant isn’t open yet.
With a glance up, I see that it’s Luca Moretti himself. He’s flanked by Alek Morozov and Dimitri Ivanov.
I smile. This is exactly what I wanted. A confrontation. They’re finally getting worried enough to come into my own restaurant. I have multiple guards around the place, all with guns and Lucawill know this. He won’t try to kill me here. He can’t. He won’t put himself at risk just to save his sister-in-law.
“Hello, gentleman,” I say, sitting back in my seat. “Do you want to join me?”
They remain standing before my table, all of them glaring down at me.
“Give us Susanna back,” Luca says.
“Now why would I do that?”
“Before we blow up this restaurant of yours,” Alek adds.
“You could. But you’re in it too. And none of you will risk blowing yourselves up. Not to get to Susanna. Do you actually care for her? I mean, truly? She’s just your sister-in-law, Luca.”
Alek steps forward. “But she is like a daughter to me. And I do care. So give her back to us.”
