And I was so in love.
“Let’s give him a show, Piccola Fiamma. A nice farewell.” I winked in Coppola’s direction. I flipped her to her stomach, but when she tried rising onto all fours in preparation for me, I pressed my knee on her lower back, restraining her flat against the floor. “I want him to watch my dick coming in and out of you.” I unfastened my belt. My cock was ramrod straight and ready to plow into her, the tip glistening with the first drop of my cum.
“Watch,” I instructed Coppola, propping Tierney by the hip bone so her ass was slightly in the air and guiding myself into her one inch at a time. A shudder rocked through her body. I relished every second of sweet torture I handed her, knowing full well this wasn’t even the tip of what I’d been feeling for years, day in and day out, pining for her.
I leaned down and bracketed her with one hand on either side of her shoulders, then captured the back of her neck in a bite. “Watch how I hit her G-spot and fuck your little bride until she blacks out, Sangue Blu.”
She gasped when I lost the remainder of my self-control and started plowing into her like an animal in heat.
I couldn’t see straight as I rode her, fast and deep, feeling her walls milking the orgasm out of me. It had been too long since the night at my parents’ pool. I’d teetered on the edge of insanity the entire time, waiting for another hit of my favorite drug.
My bite on the back of her neck tightened, and I felt the warm pressure of my climax gripping the base of my spine. I needed her to come soon, or I’d embarrass the both of us.
Forever my guardian angel, Tierney’s gasps grew faster and more breathless. “I’m coming. Don’t stop. Bite me harder.”
I did, stopping just short of drawing blood. I couldn’t fucking do it. I could never hurt this woman, even if the future of the entire world depended on it.
Her insides quaked around my dick, squeezing my pleasure. We rode our orgasms together, and I was seeing goddamn stars it felt so good.
When I threw a glance at Coppola again, he was dead. His lips began to pale around the edges, and the look of horror in his eyes hardened into something lifeless.
I pulled out of Tierney slowly, smearing the side of my cock on her ass to clean it of our juices, and stood up. She stayed lying down, her hands still tied.
“Up,” I ordered.
She rolled to her back and pushed up. I grabbed my knife and cut the zip ties. Something inside me iced to a frightening degree. Now that the pleasure of the orgasm had faded, it reminded me that we hadn’t actually made love yet. All we ever did was fuck. We’d had no connection beyond the physical. Nothing to cement those words I’d told her before I boarded the plane. Words I doubted she could ever say back.
“What did you think you were doing?” I untucked my dark shirt, zipping up my pants.
“Saving you.” She massaged her wrists with a wince.
“I didn’t need saving.”
“Everyone needs saving every once in a while.” She circled her arms around my neck and nipped at the lobe of my ear. “And I’m glad I took a bullet for you, because now you know that this is a two-way street. That I care for you just as much as you care for me.”
Categorically impossible, but I wasn’t going to burst her little bubble.
“Care or love?” I demanded.
She blinked in response, taken off guard. “They’re one and the same.”
“If that’s the case, you wouldn’t mind telling me that you love me back. Because I, Tierney, love the shit out of you. Have been in love with you since the first fucking day I laid eyes on you.”
She physically recoiled, trying to step away from my embrace. I snatched her wrist, tired. Tired that we’d fucked instead of making love. Tiptoed around her feelings instead of forcing her to feel them.
“Say it,” I hissed. “Truth.”
She swallowed. Stared at me like prey caught in a predator’s clutches. She had nowhere to go. She had to face this. Us.
“I love you,” she whispered. Barely an audible rumble, really.
The satisfaction was immediate and maddening. Still, I didn’t let her off the hook.
“Louder.”
“I love you,” she grumbled between clenched teeth.
“Can’t hear you.”
