Inside, I’ll be a step closer to the captivity of his kisses, and one step further from freedom.

Not just outdoors, but my existence outside the boundaries that have been set for me without me even knowing. I am suddenly hyper aware of every sound in the front yard. He smirks, then steps just outside the door, holding his hand toward the entrance to our home. “You can’t make this go away by kissing me.” “That mouth.” His voice rumbles and breaks like a wave. He’s calmed me with a kiss, and now he’s going to bring a sweet, docile wife into his house. “This is how I make you calm down.” He leans past me and punches a code into the door’s keypad, then he pushes it open with his foot.

It won’t undo this obscenity of a life.Īnd yet, like a guy looking at a stolen artifact, I want to believe. He can’t just kiss me and make this disappear. My knees are weak and I’m so close to being a boat adrift. The mental voice screaming for me to stop and grab Gia, run for the border grows silent the more Santino reins in his kisses from firm to soft, from commanding to offering. Eventually, I’ll hate myself for yielding, but not yet. I want to bite him, but he’s too strong and I’m too weak. His mouth presses firmly against mine, prying it open. Santino takes my palm and puts his handkerchief in it before closing my fingers into a fist. How can you miss the entire point?” I push him away, lose my footing, and grab onto a trellis of thorns. “Jesus Christ on the One True fucking Cross. “I won’t let anything happen to you,” he says. Out of the car, I make my way to the front door, but Santino grabs me and presses me against the rough stucco of the house, between two trellises tangled with rose vines. MAFIA KING from New York Times Bestselling author CD Reiss is coming soon! Get ready for book 2 of THE DILUSTRO ARRANGEMENT! Genre/Trope: Arranged Marriage/Mafia Romance MAFIA KING (The DiLustro Arrangement #2) by CD Reiss

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