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“What about the women?” I had to know

He tensed, before lifting up to look at me better “The women?”

“In Philly, you had so many women They’d come to your room I heard them, Raize Do you miss that?”

He stared atthe side of my face “I was a different persona then Had to be Carloni must’ve learned at some point I worked for Roman, but for a while, he didn’t know I needed to be a different person”

He hadn’t answered me “The women? Do you miss them?”

Hismy room”

It was the ht face, monotone voice for that monotone answer and I hit hi me?”

He laughed before lowering his head, pressing a kiss to the crook between my neck and shoulder “I don’t miss any woman except you, my sister, and my mom I never will”

Well

I ht let it slide then

Movingthe curve ofin a caress, I smiled at him

He looked down, grinning at me

“What do you think is going to happen with Marco?” I asked, knoe needed to talk about it

He held aze a bit and loosened his hold on ress into the US until he’s taken over the Morales Cartel That would require hi his father, and I don’t knohat he’d do to ht leave my mother alive”

“But if he did that? Took over the Morales Cartel?”

A darkness flared in Raize’s eyes, and he looked over my shoulder “Then he’d come for me, and since I’ainst the Marakov family”

“Will there be fallout for Roman?”

His gaze came back to me, softened, and he shook his head “No It’s him and his uncles now They’re in Russia Marco is here They’ll follow the stronger Marakov, and that’s Ro and everyone now He’s put himself and them in a position where they have to accept what he did”

“And if Marco comes for you?”

“Then I’ll go to work”

He pulled s

He said, “Enough war talk”

Rolling er into erin and out ofaround inside of o I only felt him, what he could do to my body, how he could make me feel

I was addicted to him

My mouth found his, and I yearned for him to be inside of me

This time felt different