My hand slid around to the back of her neck until my fingers dug into her flesh. “I know that you hate that you love me,” I told her. “I also know you hate the fact that your body craves mine. But you’ll either get over it or you won’t. Either way, it doesn’t change anything. You and I will be married by the end of the week, Frankie. We’re going to be married and you are joining the Benettis.” I leaned down and used my teeth to tug on her lower lip. “You’re also going to spread those creamy thighs for me every fucking night, baby.” My teeth nipped at her jaw. “I don’t care what you do with your day, but every night you will be in our bed with your thighs spread wide, waiting for me.” She moaned and I almost sank to my knees. “Whether I’ve just come home from the office or just walked in after blowing someone’s brains out, you will be on that bed, your sweet, tight pussy presented to me for the taking, Francesca. Am I clear?”
I was about to slide my other hand up her shirt when she pushed me away. She no longer looked angry, but she didn’t look quite overrun with passion either. Her eyes searched mine as she said, “There can only ever be me, Phoenix.” Shock rendered me still. “I…I know it’s customary for…some men to take mistresses, and that’s acceptable among The Family, but…but that won’t work for me.”
Was she fucking serious?
“That’s my only concession,” she went on. “If…if I have to give in, then I need to do it on my terms, as well.”
I stared down at the stunning beauty in my arms and wondered at what point in time had she lost her goddamn mind. “Are you fucking serious, right now?” I asked, mad as fuck.
“Phoen-”
And just like that, I went from kissing her to shaking the shit out of her. “I haven’t touched a woman in six fucking years, Frankie,” I said, in-fucking-furitated. “You were, and still are, the only female I have ever touched, much less fucked.” Frankie’s eyes glossed over as I ranted at her. “Do you honestly think that, now that I have you back, I’d seek out some random pussy on the side? Are you out of your fucking mind?”
“Phoenix, I-”
I stepped away from her, grabbed the first thing that was handy, and threw the lamp across the room with enough force, it shattered against the wall in a waterfall of glass and ceramic. “What don’t you fucking understand, Francesca?!” I was beyond livid. “It’s you! Everything is fucking you! In all these years, I never even tried to fill the void you left by fucking another woman. I can’t stomach the idea, Frankie. So, instead, I tried to fill the void by murdering as many motherfuckers as I could. I tried to fill the void by devoting my every waking breath to whatever I had to do to benefit the Benettis. I will never, ever touch another woman, Frankie. Never.” Before she could respond, I stormed over and snatched her by her arms again. “And, I swear to God, if you ever think to go to another man, for anything, I will fucking kill him and unleash a hell on you so brutal that you’ll wish you were dead.”
The fire in her eyes was back. “If I haven’t gone to another man in these past six years, I’m not about to start now, Phoenix,” she threw back. “Unfortunately for me, my love for you outweighed just how far I would let myself go in life.”
I crashed my lips down on hers and I didn’t care how sore she was or if my dick was still raw. I was going to prove to Frankie what she meant to me. I was going to honor the fact that there’s been no one else for either of us in six years. That meant something. No one in their right mind goes without sex for six years unless they are insane or so helplessly in love with someone else, it just can’t be done. Frankie and I fell into the latter category, and that meant something.
She also wasn’t fighting me. No. Her lips and hands were just as desperate as mine. I ripped her t-shirt over her head and her hands immediately went to my belt as she fumbled with freeing my dick from my slacks.
I was tearing off my dress shirt when her soft, delicate hand wrapped around my hard dick and I had to stop, close my eyes, and just savor her touch. Last night had been me taking everything I needed from her, but Frankie wrapping her hand around my dick was her giving herself over to me, and I wanted to shout to the fucking Heavens. It didn’t matter that my dick was, indeed, tender either. I just didn’t fucking care.
My knees almost buckled when I look down and Frankie was already on her knees before me. She didn’t give me a chance to even appreciate the sight before her lips were wrapped around my cock, and she was taking it down to the back of her throat. “Holy fuck,” I hissed, tangling my hands in her hair.
We looked like a couple who couldn’t wait to attack each other as I stood there in my pants only and Frankie was before me in her jeans and pink bra. The scene looked desperate, but then, I suppose that’s what we were.
We were desperate for each other.
“Fuck, yeah, baby,” I groaned. “Suck my cock deep.” Frankie immediately slapped her palms on my thighs and opened wide, so I could fuck that pretty little face of hers.
And I did.
I tightened my hold in her hair and started fucking her mouth with
