Her lashes cast a shadow down her cheeks, and then her sparkling green eyes held my gaze. “Then don’t leave us alone together.”
The way she looked at me, vulnerable, innocent, a little kitten in need of shelter, stretched a smile on my face. I loved it when she needed me, when she hid in my embrace, when she asked for my help. “Bene. I won’t.”
She smiled back. “Thank you, Tino.”
My smile turned into a grin. The things I’d give to kiss her right now.
Dark pink painted her cheeks. God, she was killing me. Her gaze dipped to my lips. She, too, wanted to kiss me. All she had to do was ask.
She cleared her throat and ripped her gaze off my mouth, but she wouldn’t leave my arms. That she couldn’t bring herself to do. “I feel like I need to apologize for last night. I was being…” She laughed nervously.
Naughty? Lovely? Breathtaking? “You were being what?”
“Inappropriate. Whatever that was, I think it’s because of the incident. I…I’m dealing with it all wrong. I mean, my whole feelings abouthimare wrong.”
Do tell.“What kind of feelings do you have forhim?”
Tears fell off her eyes again. “I never told this to anyone, but I feel like I can tell you. I want to tellyou.”
I took her hand in mine and kissed her forehead. “You can tell me anything.”
“He plays with my head, Tino. He makes me…want him.” Her voice shook. “I hate it. He’s the last person I should feel that way for, and I’m so angry and confused.” She stopped crying all of a sudden and stared at me. “I want to be with him so much.”
The heat in her words went straight to my cock. Fuck. I raked her from head to toe, my jaws clenched, the devil in me snarling.
Plunge your fist in her hair and show her how much you want to be with her, too.
Press her to your cock and let her feel what you have for her. Bend her over your desk and give her what she’s always wanted.
Take what’s yours.
NOW.
“But I won’t do it. I will never let him have me. I’ll never be with him. Ever,” she added.
I wanted to choke her. I should bend her over and spank the fuck out of her while choking her pretty neck. Let’s see if she’d say that shit again. If she’d be able to say anything at all.
“I…might have been looking for a replacement to get him out of my head, and my behavior yesterday was…that,” she said.
“You’re replacinghimbyme? Your desire and need forhim? You think I can give that to you?”
Her blush deepened, and she flustered in my arms. “That’s why I need to apologize. It’s inappropriate but completely not real. I don’t want things to be weird between us. I respect you so much. I owe you everything, and I don’t want you to think that I’m ungrateful or don’t know my place, Don Bellomo.”
Not real? Not fucking real? You don’t know shit, Angel. What you feel for me is the most real thing you’ll ever have.The only real thing she’d ever have. “Tino. I’m still Tino.”
“Sure. Do you forgive me, Tino?”
“No.”
“Oh my God. Please. I’ll do anything.”
Don’t say things you don’t mean, Angel.“I said no because there’s nothing to forgive.”
She sighed in relief. “Oh God. Thank you.” She hugged me tight.
I shifted a little so she wouldn’t feel my erection. I didn’t want to beinappropriate. I’d show her what was inappropriate tonight and every night to come.
“Can you please forget what I said about Nicky, too? It was a joke, and I was being weird,” she said.
