You Will Be Mine(18)

“Why the hell not?”

He smiled. “Because I am.”

“The hell you are, buddy!”

He flicked my nose. “The hell I am, beautiful.”

I scooted a little further away from him on the bed. “Don’t try to seduce me Mr. Belatoni; I’m not easily seduced.”

“Really?” he asked, his eyebrow curved up in a challenge.

Oops, did I really want to do that?

He closed the distance between us, and when his lips lightly brushed my neck I realised that—hell yes—I did in fact really want him to do just that.

“Clara.” My name was a whisper on his tongue making me shiver.

“Y-y-y-yes?”

“Do you like your neck being kissed?”

I moaned involuntarily at the feel of his soft lips at the nape of my neck. I found myself wondering what it would feel like if he gently grazed it with his teeth. The thought made me shudder.

“Clara?” he whispered again, running his hands up and down my arm. “Do you like it when I touch you?”

“Oh God, yes—I mean, NO!” I shot off the bed as quickly as possible and tried to control my breathing. Luca just looked highly amused—and obviously aroused.

“Why are you staring at my crotch?”

I wasn’t just staring; I think I had my mouth wide open. I knew the expression, ‘The Italian Stallion,’ but he took the biscuit. It looked like a monster was trying to escape his trousers. “You’ve got to be kidding me, right?”

Why did I just say that?

Luca smirked again. “What’s the matter?”

I briefly looked up towards his cheeky grin, but I couldn’t seem to pry my eyes away from the elephant in the room. And, boy oh boy did this elephant have the biggest goddamned trunk I had ever seen in my life!

“Bu-bu-but, it’s huge!” The minute I said it, I clasped my hand over my mouth, causing a rumbling sound from Luca.

“I’m sure you could take me baby. Do you want to try?”

I shook my head. “No fucking way!”

Luca made a tutting sound. “Do you always swear like that?”

“No.”

“Don’t you think you should stop?”

“No fucking way,” I repeated again, smiling.

Watching me with interest, Luca leaned on the side of my bed with one arm. All he had to do was look at me, and I would melt. It just made it that much harder when he was lying on my bed.

“I’ve never met anyone quite like you,” he said, smiling rather devilishly.

“I’ve never met anyone quite like you either. I suppose you came here today deliberately?”

Luca shook his head in annoyance. “That phone call yesterday made me act quicker than I would have liked.”

I placed my hands on my hips. “What do you mean?”

He frowned. “Have you forgotten already? This date you were going on tonight. Who is he? Tell me, so I can have the great delight of cancelling it for you? Before I go round and kick his ass of course.”

I stared at him open-mouthed again. “You mean to tell me that all this effort you have put into today was because you thought I was going on a date?”

“Not only going on a date, but you said—and I quote—‘I have a date tomorrow night, and I wasn’t going to fuck him, but now that you’ve said this, I’m going to give him the best goddamned sex he’s ever had in his life,’ unquote.”

I was still rooted in shock. “You’re telling me you did all this because you thought I was going to have sex with someone?”

He frowned like I was the one who was nuts. “Of course. And not only that. You said you were going to give him the best sex of his life. You don’t get to give him the best sex of his life.”

“And why not?”

His cheeky grin appeared. “Because you’re going to give it to me.”

I paced the room a little and shook my head in disbelief. “I can’t believe you went to all this trouble because you were jealous.”

That word shocked him a little. “I suppose I was—yes.”

I stopped pacing and stared at him. “After all of this, there was no need to be.”

Luca propped himself up on one arm. “Why not?”

I threw my hands in the air. “Because there was no date. I made it up. And now you’ve gone and charged your way in like the bull that you are—and not only that—you’re trying to ruin my business. Do you realise how much money me and my girls are losing right now because of you?”

“You mean how much we are losing.”

I growled at him. “Don’t you fucking start with me. This is my business. I built it up from scratch and turned it into what it is. Not you. Me!”