Page 8 of The Mafia Husband's Loveless Marriage

He was used to being feared by everyone who knew him andofhim. And when they first met, this slip of a girl had been no different. The moment she had laid her eyes on him, and realized who he was, she, too, had been frightened.

But now?

It was as if the ring he had slipped on her finger had magically destroyed her fears. This time, when she looked into his eyes, and he looked into hers, he could see that she only saw him as Mykos...her husband.

"Can you believe it, Orion? He actually said he married me to scare the monsters away? Does he think I'm a Ghostbuster or something?"

And on and on she went, and when Mykos met Orion's gaze through the rearview mirror—

You picked the right one, sir.

Did I?

Yes, sir.

Mykos looked at his wife of less than an hour.

"Maybe you have a different standard for beauty in your world," she was saying huffily. "But I'll have you know, Mr. Ravensworth. I've got boys lined up around the block—"

Mykos's gaze narrowed.Oh, did she now?

Maika stopped speaking when she noticed the way the great Mykos Ravensworth was looking at her.Could she...did she perhaps...say a little too much than what was good?

"Um, you know what—ah!"

How in the world had she suddenly ended up back on Mykos's lap?

"What was that you were saying, wife?"

"Uh...nothing?"

"Is that so?"

Maika could only gulp at how his voice had suddenly turned silky. Why did she have this feeling that this was the tone he used to use...just before knocking bad guys unconscious?

"Because I can seem to recall..."

"I remember now," Maika blurted out. "I was saying I've got boys lined up around the block...but none of them could hold a candle to you!"

Silence.

Maika nodded vehemently. "I swear it's true!" And thank goodness she wasn't lying about this. "All of them were just...boys. While you're...you're not a boy, obviously. Instead, you're...you're a man. No, wait, not just any man, buttheman."

Mykos saw Orion's shoulders shaking at the way his wife was earnestly doing her best to lie her way out of the hole she had dug herself into.

Unbelievable.

With his wife still rambling, she didn't notice how he had pressed a button that had the privacy window sliding into place right behind the driver's seat. And as soon as they were out of Orion's view—

A gasp escaped Maika when her husband suddenly curved a hand around her nape. Her stunned gaze flew to where Orion was, and then she could only gasp again when she saw that the privacy window was up, and when her gaze swerved back to Mykos...

Ooooooh.

His kiss had her body melting against his in an instant, and because she was now his wife for better or for worse, she didn't even have to resist. Instead, she was completely free to kiss him back, her arms wrapping around his neck, and...oh, the kiss went on and on and on, and now his hands were on the bare skin of her legs, and...and...

His fingers traced a slow path from her knee to her thigh, and the sensation was so overwhelming that a sound escaped her, something between a gasp and a whimper that she would have been mortified about if she'd had the capacity to think. But she couldn't think. Not with his mouth moving to her jaw, and then to the sensitive skin just below her ear, andoh,she was gripping the lapels of his suit so hard she was probably wrinkling them, but she couldn't make herself let go, and she didn't want to, and—

His other hand slid around her waist and pulled her closer until there was nothing between them but the hammering of two heartbeats that had somehow become one.