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Realization finally settled on his features, then he ss?”
I glared I wasn’t in the mood for jokes “This is useless”
“No, don’t” He turned my face back to hiet it Fordeal, or at least it wasn’t for the men I know”
“When was your first time?”
“I was thirteen and ht it was time for me to become a real in and a killer’ That’s what he said” Luca smiled coldly “He paid two noble prostitutes to spend a weekend withthey knew”
“That’s horrible”
“Yeah, I suppose it is,” Luca said quietly “But I was a thirteen year old teenage boy anted to prove hiest member in the New York Familia I didn’t want the olderdeal when the weekend was over I doubt the prostitutes were overly impressed with my performance but they pretended that I was the best lover they’d ever had My father probably paid theure out that not all woive you a blowjob”
I wrinkled h “Yeah,” he lide over his finger I wasn’t sure why he always did that “I was really worried tonight”
“Worried that I’d let someone have what’s yours”
“No,” he said firs with the Bratva are escalating If they got their hands on you…” He shook his head
“They didn’t”
“They won’t”
I shifted away from his hand that had moved on frohed “You’re going to make this really difficult, aren’t you?”
I stared
“I’m sorry for what you saw today”
“But not sorry for what you did”
He looked exasperated “I rarely say I’m sorry When I say it, I mean it”
“Maybe you should say it more often”
He took a deep breath “There’s no way out of this e for you, neither for me Do you really want to be miserable?”
He was right There was no way out And even if there hat for? My father would marry me off to the next man Maybe a man like Bibiana’s husband And no ine developing feelings for the Luca I saw in the restaurant It wouldn’t have hurt sohim with that woman, if I didn’t When he’d touchedthe night, I’d feltto fall in love with him I wished I could hate him with all my heart If Gianna had been inher husband and beinghi to care for him “No,” I said “But I can’t pretend I never saw you with her”