I bite his lower lip and pull. His eyes filled with so much desire my skin heats. I feel like his gaze comes with its own pressure. I flick my tongue against his lip.
“Good thing I’ll let you do both,” I purr as I keep my eyes locked on his.
He growls and crushes my lips with his. I lock my fingers in his hair and grind my core into him. He nips and sucks at my lips, making me whimper into his mouth. I can taste that he’s been drinking.
He breaks the kiss and searches my face with those gorgeous hazel eyes. There’s a war happening within his gaze. I stay silent as he processes whatever is going on in his head.
“I don’t think you understand how much I love you. Gio was wrong for sending you there. I would have handled it.” He shakes his head. “But I can’t deny how amazing you are.”
He runs his nose up the bridge of mine. I start to pant with anticipation. He kisses my nose then stares at me as if in awe.
“You’re everything I ever wanted. If I knew you were out there, I would have waited for you,” he breathes against my lips.
“We’re right where we should be.”
He releases my throat and allows me to slide down the front of his body. Silently, he laces his fingers with mine and starts upstairs. He’s taking this a lot better than I thought.
It’s as if I can finally breathe. After months of worrying about how he would feel about me being an assassin hired by his brother to become a part of his life, I can finally relax. Although, I know Gio does nothing without a purpose and a plan. I can’t help wondering what his endgame is here.
We make it to the bedroom and Dante silences all my thoughts as he drops his sweats and reaches for my hoodie to unzip it. He lets it fall to the floor and reaches for my tank top.
I reach to unclasp my bra as he works my panties and leggings down my legs. Once I’m standing before him completely naked, he lifts me onto his waist as if I weigh nothing. He grasps the back of my neck and brings my lips to his.
This kiss is different. It’s filled with passion and something else. His tight hold on me says so much in itself. If I didn’t know before this man loves me, I have no doubts in this moment.
He carries us into the bathroom and steps into the shower where I had plans to go when I tried to sneak back in. I sip from his lips as he devours mine.
He slams my back against the shower wall and tugs at my ponytail, tilting my head back. He dives in to kiss my throat as he turns the shower on without turning away from me. I moan as he sucks at my flesh and places a trail of open-mouthed kisses along my neck down to my breasts.
“You’re mine to protect. Mine to keep safe. I never want you to place yourself in danger like that again.”
With that, he thrusts inside me, causing me to cry out as I bow my back away from the shower wall. His thrusts are rough, almost frantic. I cling to his shoulders as he bounces me on his hard length. He feels so hard.
“I love you, Liz. I can’t lose you. You’re everything I wanted and a ton of shit I didn’t know I needed.”
He squeezes one breast as he continues to fuck me hard into the shower wall. I reach for the wall behind me as if I can find purchase. My hands slide against the wet wall. Needing something to anchor me, I reach to lace my fingers in his hair.
He groans and takes my mouth. I lock my legs high on his back, but they fall apart as he shifts, causing my lower half to pull away from the wall. He places a hand on my stomach, and I swear he’s massaging his dick inside me.
“Dante,” I scream.
“Yes, baby. Call my name. Let me know you know who you belong to. This is my pussy. You answer to no man but me.”
His words reach through my sex-fogged brain. Suddenly, I understand some of his anger. I don’t think it’s so much what I do. It’s that I do it for Gio.
I cup his face and look into his eyes. However, my orgasm hits hard and all thoughts are lost. I try to note to come back to this later, but my head fills with the fact that I can’t stop coming while he continues to thrust until he fills me with his cum as he roars his release.
I’m spent as he pulls out and washes me before carrying me to bed.