Her tight, wet channel closed around me like a warm leather glove.
I moved slowly, almost lazily. Pulling almost all the way out before sliding home again, and that’s exactly what she was, even when I didn’t want to admit it. She was my home.
The only place in the entire world where I could be me was with her.
“Matteo, please,” she begged and wrapped her legs around my waist, drawing me in closer and meeting each of my thrusts with her own. “I need you.”
“I need you.” Loosening my grip on her, I slammed home again and again. “I need you to need me.”
Losing control, I let myself feel everything. How her body felt under me, how her pussy felt pulsating around me as another orgasm began to take hold.
We came together, our lips crashing together to muffle the moans and screams that flowed from her lips. I swallowed them all down. I ate them like I had just eaten her pussy.
Until she went liquid in my arms and completely spent, I fell to the side and pulled her with me. My lips never left hers, even though it felt like I would never be able to catch my breath ever again.
“I need you to need me,” I murmured again into her mouth.
And there it was: my ultimate truth. There was only one thing in the entire world that made me vulnerable, and it was my need to be wanted and needed by her.
Not just loved, that wasn’t enough.
Slowly, lazily, she lifted her hands to my face and traced it with her fingertips.
“I do need you, Matteo,” she whispered. “You will never know how much I need you. How much I want you.”
I closed my eyes, leaning into her hand. “Do you mean that?”
“Open your eyes and look at me,” she said softly.
Taking a deep breath, I did what she asked, and the air got stuck in my throat. She was looking at me with such tenderness.
She was looking at me with…dare I say it? Love.
“I mean it,” she whispered. “I’ve always wanted and needed you, Matteo. Before you even knew I existed.”
Tracing her lips with mine, I let the happiness roll over me. “I’ve always known you existed, Sophia,” I said against her mouth with a smile.
“Okay.” She rolled her eyes. “Even before you realized I was a woman and not just Gio’s annoying little sister?”
I pulled away. Gio. Fuck Gio. Especially if what I had heard earlier was true.
Sensing my sudden change of mood, Sophia let her hand fall down into the space between us. “You’re mad at me again.”
Wildly, I looked at her. A million thoughts scattered in my head when I did.
It didn’t matter if Gio knew or even suspected we’d had feelings for each other all those years ago. It didn’t even matter that I knew he told everyone that it had been my family and me specifically who had called for that hit. I knew he didn’t have proof, but he had gone after my family as revenge anyway.
Gio had started this war between our families. Not me and not Sophia.
“I’m not angry at you.” Gathering her up in my arms, I held her close and nuzzled into her throat. Even after wild, sweaty sex, she still smelled like all the good things in the world.
Letting out a sigh, I relaxed against her. “I’m not angry at you, Sophia,” I admitted. “I’m angry at the entire world.”
Brown eyes widened. “Why?”
Laughing, I shook my head. “Why am I angry at the world?” Reaching out, I caressed her face. “Because it took you away from me for six years. Because even now, you are not really mine.”
“I am yours,” she said in a rush, and there was no pause in her voice. She wasn’t lying. I felt myself smile. And this time, I didn’t even try to hide it.
