Mafia's Devil part 24

KARINE

I shove at him with all of my might. I don’t know where I’ll run to since my car is dead and getting buried in snow, but anywhere is better than Luciano’s side.

My movements are heavily restricted by the seatbelt and this ape of a man. He snatches my wrist, and I’m convinced he’s going to bite it to punish my rebellion. Instead of feeling teeth sink into my flesh, I feel something hard wrap around my ring finger.

Luciano releases me and slams the door shut. My eyes instantly lock on my hand. There’s a huge ring weighing it down. The diamond is blinding, and the band is too large for my finger.

It’s an engagement ring. He put an engagement ring on me.

He’s actually crazy.

The driver’s door slams shut as Luciano slides into the truck. I attack my seatbelt and reach for the door again, but the vehicle starts moving. I consider hopping out and risking getting crushed by the wheels.

I pull the ring off. “What is this?”

“A ring. I’m giving it to you,” he replies nonchalantly as he keeps his eyes on the road.

“What? No. I don’t want this.” I run a hand through my hair and pull it frustratedly. I can’t believe he thinks he can just tag me like cattle.

“Why not? Do you want a larger diamond?”

“No!” I yell at him. “Do you not know what an engagement ring is?!”

I should be over the moon right now, because this is what I wanted all along. For the past few weeks, I’ve been following my ridiculous plan of marrying this man and robbing him blind.

Now, all I feel is exhaustion. I was ready to let Luciano go and focus my energy on rebuilding my restaurant. I want to stop battling conflicting emotions and stressing out my family. I’ve waved the flag of defeat, so why the hell is Luciano back for a second war?

“I know what an engagement ring is. Perhaps you’re the one that is struggling with mental processing.”

“Don’t you call me stupid, you сволочь (bastard). Take your ring back and drop me off in town. Seriously, this isn’t funny. I gave you a warning that Maksim was going to get involved in the Japanese trade out of good faith. I have no time to be messing around with you anymore. What in the world are you thinking?”

“I don’t know,” he replies.

“Huh?”

“I don’t understand my thoughts, so I’m acting on impulse. It is done. Now, tell me, what were you doing so far away from the city?”

“That is none of your business.”

I hear a creak and realize it’s because he’s squeezing the steering wheel too tightly. It’s like he’s about to rip the thing off and send us to our deaths.

“Were you going to meet a man?”

“Yes, actually, I was. Take your ring back, shove your absurd jealousy up your ass, and stop being a kidnapping creep.”

“What is his name?”

“Did you just growl at me?”

“Karine!”

I toss the ring at him. It bounces off his ridiculously large bicep before landing back on my lap.

“Put the ring back on.”

“No. And I’m not telling you his name because I know you’ll send your goons to hurt him.”

I was on my way to meet an internal designer who would help me with the restaurant, but he doesn’t need to know that.

“There will be no more suitors. You are engaged to me now.”

Does he hear himself? He thinks he rules both Italy and me!

“Please remind me when I agreed to that? Or my father? Or Maksim?”

His jaw tightens. “I will deal with your father, and Maksim has no jurisdiction over you.”

“Yes, he does. He’s the head of my family! I’m a Kuznetsov.”

His eyes are icier than the snow slamming against the car. “I am the head of your family now. Your surname will not be Kuznetsov for long.”

“You’re delusional.”

“Delusional?” He stops the car, rips my seatbelt off, and pulls me onto his lap. I’m crammed between this impossible man and the steering wheel. There’s no pain, but I can’t breathe right because of the effect Luciano has on me.

His lips fall on mine, and he sucks my bottom lip. My eyes slam shut when every desirable thought of him I’ve ever had drenches me. I kiss him back— hard, fast, hungry. My body is dragged out of the car, but our lips remain connected.

He closes the driver’s door and opens the back. Processing becomes harder as I focus on keeping up with his mouth. The engagement ring is tight in my fist, digging into my flesh just like Luciano’s teeth do to my lips.

I’m laid across the back seat, and he hovers over me.

He pulls back to whisper against my panting lips, “Does this feel delusional?”

Yes, it does, because I’m losing oxygen to my brain and I’m struggling to keep up with reality. I’m risking passing out like my guard just to keep kissing him.

Damn it, it’s hard to say no to him when his many abs are pressing against my heaving belly.

He pulls back again, and I follow his face, only to be pressed back by a hand at my neck. Its firm keeps me in place as Luciano studies what he has done to my puffy lips.

“Why did you keep coming around? Why chase me and then tell me you’re done with me?” he asks. “You knew you were playing with fire.”

Fire.

“You shouldn’t play with me, Karine. I always burn.”

His words make me so angry that my lust shrivels as fury evaporates it. As one of my hand grips onto the engagement ring, I lift my free one and slap him across the face.

“Asshole! How could you rub it in?”

He releases my neck and squeezes my shoulders. “Don’t ever fucking disrespect me like that again.”

“Oh, but you can disrespect me? My life? You ruined the only thing I had going for me, and now you’re making a mess of what remains!”

I hate how my eyes tear.

“What the fuck are you talking about? What am I rubbing in?”

“You burnt down my restaurant.”

His body stiffens. “Is that what you thought this whole time?”

“Don’t play games with me by acting innocent. I saw the footage. You were there. You watched it burn. You—”

“I was there with my ex,” he interjects. “She wasn’t too happy to see you walking out of my bedroom, so she sent you a message by setting the restaurant on fire. I got rid of her after it.”

Is it true?

Denial, confusion, and irritation braid into one. If this is true, I wasted my time on nothing.

“I got rid of her for being crazy, but here I am with another nut job.”

His lips return to mine, and I shudder. Unfortunately, it’s not with disgust.

He supports himself with one hand and holds my waist with another. It doesn’t stay there for long. It slides south for my zipper, hovering for a second as if daring me to stop him.

All I do is whimper against his lips at the thought of his head between my legs, getting crushed by my thighs.

The zipper is undone, the pants are pulled down, and his lip bites mine one final time before ducking for my ache. I’m not pretty and trimmed down there. I’m prickly as hair grows back, but that doesn’t stop Luciano from sucking my clit into his eager mouth.

Am I in the USA, Canada, or outer space?

My mouth opens wide to tell him to suck harder and stop all at once, but all I manage is a strangled sound.

Two of his fingers pin my pussy lips aside as his tongue laps the mess leaking out of me. I’m not cold anymore. I’m pulsing with heat waves. Is this menopause or a volcanic orgasm?

He licks a sensitive spot on my clit, and I shriek and pull my hips back. Luciano, like the jerk he is, grins against my pulsing pussy and attacks the same spot again.

“L—” I can’t finish his name.

He licks from my ass to my clit, that wicked tongue of his flickering and poking every bit of sensitive flesh it can find.

I grip onto his hair with two handfuls and grind my face onto him. His mouth is wide open, giving me free rein. I’m not sure if he’s breathing anymore. I don’t care. All I want is for that warm, slick, spongy tongue to keep cradling my clit.

I come on Luciano’s tongue with a storm. As wetness floods me and my orgasm ripples through me, shame inflates.

I yank Luciano’s head away, and he groans.

“Let me lick you clean.”

“No. We’re done. That won’t happen again.”

I sit up, embarrassed when I see my slick all over the back seat, and I pull my pants back up. My eyes are anywhere but on him.

He touches my clenched fist, so I open it to return the ring to him.

He takes it, but instead of slipping it into his pocket, he pushes back onto my finger. “Yes, it will,” he replies before exiting the vehicle.

It takes me a moment to understand that promise.

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