You Will Be Mine(55)

Placing my hand on his, I pulled it to my heart. “Thank you.”

Grabbing my hand, Luca sighed and nodded his head. “Come on. It’s bath time.”

We walked into the bathroom, and I noticed the water was filling up quickly. “Here, let me take this from you.” Luca moved to take my gown off but I flinched. I didn’t want him seeing my back.

“It’s okay. I got it.” I quickly pulled it down and manoeuvred myself towards the bath. Luca was frowning at me, but didn’t question my strange behaviour. Thank God.

Sinking myself into the bath, I moaned in pleasure. “Do you know how sexy you look in that bath?” I opened my eyes and found Luca drooling. With him, I was constantly drooling, and it was nice to see I wasn’t the only one thus afflicted

“Hop in, baby. The water’s nice and warm.” I winked at him, and without hesitation, he was in the bath.

Entwining our legs around one another, I felt content and relaxed. Extremely relaxed. I was having every part of me taken care of today. Luca was making sure of that.

Stroking my leg, I could see Luca wanted to ask me something. “We need to talk about last night.” I sighed. I knew this was coming. I had to apologise, and I hated saying sorry. “I’m sorry I didn’t make sure you were protected from that asshole.”

I was shocked. “You’re apologising to me?”

“I let him get to you. I let him hurt you.”

“You didn’t let him do anything. It is I who should be apologising. I ran off instead of listening to what you had to say. I didn’t let you explain. A total stranger told me something bad about you, and instead of confronting you with it, I just hit the roof.”

Luca clenched his teeth together in anger. I could tell he was still sore about the whole thing. “Who is he, Luca? Why would he do that? Why did he lie?”

Luca swore underneath his breath. “He hates me. He’s a jealous, pathetic rival who would do anything to see me fail.” Luca sighed and stroked my arm. “He saw me with you last night. He’s not stupid. My reaction to everything you did saw to it that he knew how I felt about you. He knew I wasn’t going to let you go in a hurry, and now I’ve just created the most fun game for the fucker. He wants to hurt me, so, in turn, he wants to hurt anyone close to me. He’s a vile, malicious, son-of-a-bitch.”

“Well, it hasn’t worked, has it?” I smiled and stroked his face. “You’re here with me now after having just made love to me … twice. Instead of it working against you, it actually brought us closer together.”

“But he did get between us. He took one night away from us. One night I could have been buried inside you. If it not for last night, we could have made love four or even five times by now.”

I chuckled. “It was only one night.”

Luca grabbed my hand. “Amore mio, you don’t get it do you? Every night is precious. Every day is precious. It only takes one minute or one second for all your days and nights to be ripped away from you. He begrudged me one night I could have spent holding you in my arms as we slept. One night I could have made love to you over and over and heard those sweet noises in my ear as I made you whimper in ecstasy.” Luca wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me on top of his lap. I gasped at the hardness I felt digging into me.

“My goodness, do all you Italian Stallions talk like that?”

He smiled and bit my chin. “You think I’m an Italian Stallion?”

“I’ve never had anyone so big.”

Luca growled. “Don’t talk about the others. I don’t want to know. You were mine before I even met you.”

“I’m so sorry I slept with others before you. I should have known.” My sarcasm didn’t go over very well with Luca.

“You are mine in every way—permanently. Do you need me to help you remember that?”

I nodded. “Yes, I think so. I don’t think the other four times took very well.”

Luca’s back arched. “Oh, you don’t, do you?”

“Nah, not really.” I playfully hitched my eyebrow at him with a smile.

“If I wasn’t so keen to know what caused your sudden change of heart from last night, I would spend all day refreshing your memory—again and again until you couldn’t think straight.”

“What was that again? I can’t remember.” I chuckled and Luca growled, pulling my neck towards his lips. The feel of him biting me seductively had my senses going into overdrive.

“Stop teasing and tell me.”

“Okay, sourpuss, I will. I saw the newspaper this morning.”