“After everything I fucking did for you, you’re going to betray me like this?”
I almost laughed out loud. “Betrayyou?” I asked incredulously. “You’re about to turn me over to my father.” I practically spit the words at him. “When you promised me…youpromisedme… that you wouldn’t. So, who is betraying who here, Enzo?”
He pulled my hood from my head and pressed his cheek to the side of my face that wasn’t against the tree trunk. I could feel him trembling. His entire body shook against mine, and instinctively I wanted to try to soothe him. But then I remembered why we were in this position.
Frustration filled me as I tried to buck him off of me. I’d been so close to freedom. So fucking close. “Why are you still here?” I gritted out. “Why aren’t you with Luca?”
“Because I can’t stand to be away from you,” he whispered. “Not now.”
Kind of hard to believe when I hadn’t seen him since that afternoon when he fucked me into exhaustion. “Then where have you been all night?”
“Watching you.”
Maybe I should’ve felt more surprised than I did. Maybe I should’ve felt angrier that I was caught before I could get away. But I didn’t feel either of those things. Instead, as the tension drained from my body, I felt such an overwhelming sense of relief that I could’ve cried.
But what I felt didn’t matter. What I wanted in my heart of hearts didn’t matter. I couldn’t stay here with him, no matter how much I wanted to. To stay would only be delaying our inevitable separation. It might buy us a few more days together, but in the end, we’d still be apart, and I would be back at my father’s. A prisoner. And there was no way I’d escape him a second time. “Just let me go,” I told him.
Instead of answering me, he pushed his hips harder into my ass. I closed my eyes as my body responded with a rush of moisture between my thighs. I wanted to turn around in his arms and let him take me back to the house. But even as my body vibrated with need, my head screamed at me to run. To get away.
He rolled his hips into me again, and his breathing quickened, becoming fast and harsh.
“No,” I lied. “I don’t want you. I don’t want this.”
I felt him stiffen against my back, and I continued on, knowing I was hurting him, but also knowing I had no choice. “The only thing I wanted from you was your money so I could buy my freedom.” I paused, waiting to see what he would do. But he didn’t ease up the pressure of his weight against me. “I don’twantyou,” I gritted through my teeth. “Just let me go, Enzo.”
Seconds ticked by with agonizing slowness. I started to worry I’d gone too far. But then, suddenly, he pushed himself off of me. I sucked in a deep breath of cold air and braced myself to face him. To make him believe the lies that were coming out of my mouth.
I never got the chance.
His arms came around my waist, and before I knew it, he had my jeans unfastened and was tugging them down my hips along with my underwear. Cold, wet air hit my bare ass, and I grabbed ahold of the front of my jeans, trying to stop their descent. “What are you doing?” Panic made my voice higher than normal. “Enzo. Stop!”
He shoved his hand between my legs and cupped me from behind, sliding his fingers between my folds. “You don’t want me?” he growled when he felt how wet I was. “You’re a fucking liar.”
My strength was no match for his, and soon my pants were down around my knees, and I was once again pressed against the tree with his hand on my head to hold me there as he opened his slacks. I struggled against him with everything I had in me, feeling the bark scrape my cheek and the front of my thighs. I tried to hit him, but my punches were ineffectual. I couldn’t land anything in the position I was in. And my legs were trapped in my jeans. Now I was starting to get really pissed off. “Stop!” I shouted, louder this time. “I’ll scream!”
“Go ahead and scream,” he told me. “I’ll let them fucking watch.”
No, he wouldn’t.
“Try me, baby girl.”
Sucking in a breath, I screamed as loud as I could as he chuckled in my ear and shoved his thick cock between my thighs. I pushed my hips forward against the tree as much as I could to try to escape him, but he only groaned as he slid out before he pulled my hips back again. I gasped as he worked his way between the folds of my sex until his cock was as slick as I was.
I heard men shouting from every direction and I froze, realizing what an idiot I’d been. “Enzo, please. Don’t do this.”
“You think it would really be this easy to escape from Luca’s property?” he asked me as he continued to rock his hips back and forth, sliding his sex in and out of the folds of my pussy.
Through the haze of lust taking over my body, the truth came crashing over me. He’d told them to let me go. While he hunted me himself.
Running footsteps drew closer, and I tried again to play off his possessiveness. “All of Luca’s soldiers are about to see my bare ass.”
But he only said, “All of Luca’s soldiers are about to watch me fuck you.”
I renewed my efforts to get away just as six men came upon us from different directions. The ones I could see froze, lowering their weapons when they saw what was happening. “Help me!” I screamed at them, but not one of them stepped forward to do so. Stone faced, they waited for orders from Enzo.
Tired of my games, Enzo yanked me away from the tree and threw me forward. Caught up in my jeans, I stumbled and fell, landing hard on my hands and knees. One hand slipped in the wet grass, and I barely caught myself before I face planted.
“You and you. Turn around,” Enzo growled, and at first, I thought he was talking to me, but he was talking to his men. “But don’t leave. Keep an eye out. The rest of you can watch.”
