My Husband Called Me a Trophy Wife, So I Saved the Mafia Don Instead novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Terms of Surrender

"Name them," Luca said.

We stood in the hall of the Bay Ridge house at two in the morning, with the gala still on my skin.

"Term four," I said. "When the poisoner is named, I'm free to go, and nobody follows."

His face did not move.

"The poisoner is named," I said. "She's in a federal cell. I can walk out that door right now, and you'll stand here with your hands at your sides."

"That was the deal."

"That was your deal."

"Then go," Luca said.

His voice was perfectly steady, and a muscle jumped in his jaw.

I looked at him for a long time.

"You'd really let me."

"I wrote it into the new terms myself. You decide, and I don't send anyone." His hands closed and opened. "I'll stand here all night if I have to, Audrey. I won't stop you."

"Good."

I took off my shoes and held them in one hand.

"I'm going upstairs," I said. "Not to my room."

He stared at me.

"Don't follow me," I said. "Wait to be asked."

I climbed the stairs with my heart going hard, and I did not look back.

I got as far as the door of his room.

I had my hand on the knob when I heard his steps on the stair behind me, slow and deliberate.

"You said wait," I said, without turning around.

"You haven't asked."

"Luca Fontana."

"Yes?"

"Come here."

He crossed the landing.

I turned, and he was already there, a hand's width away, with his breath unsteady.

"Say it again," he said.

"Come to bed with me."

"Is that an order?"

"It's a request," I said. "I'm free to make them. I'm making one."

He lifted me off the floor, and I wrapped my legs around his waist.

The door slammed behind us.

He did not kiss me hard this time.

He kissed me slowly, his hand cupping the back of my head.

I tasted champagne and something sweeter, and I made a sound in my throat.

He carried me to the bed and set me on my feet beside it.

His fingers found the zip of the green dress and drew it down my back, one inch at a time.

The silk slid off my shoulders and pooled at my feet.

"Turn around," he said.

I turned, and he kissed the back of my neck, and my shoulder, and the line of my spine.

I shivered.

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