ANASTASIAThe car was parked in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing but trees and birds that called out from above us. The rich scent of woods clogged my nostrils as I opened the door and stepped out. I couldn’t hide my smile as I looked around me—it was beautiful.When I turned to face Valentino, who had already gotten out of the car, his eyes were glued to me. My smile seemed to grow as I looked at him before staring up above me at the beautiful sight of green and sky. The wind whisked through my hair, embracing me in nature’s hug. I loved the outdoors.“This isn’t all, Bambolina,” he said. My eyebrow rose as he locked his door before walking up to me. I decided to follow his lead with his arm curled around my waist. We walked and walked. I distracted myself with the animals that ran by. The place was lovely, and I could only question why I had never ventured out into the wild before. The silence Valentino and I shared was nurturing. I found myself gaining comfort in the musica
“What will we be drinking?” I asked to fill the silence in the room. While skimming through the menu, I couldn’t help but look at the very expensive prices. The room must’ve cost a fortune, along with our own private waiter and waitress. It felt good knowing he was willing to go to such great lengths to make me happy.“I don’t know about you, but I know exactly what I’ll be drinking,” he stated seductively. I slowly glanced over at him to see the dark glint in his eyes.“And what’s that?” I questioned with a raised brow. He smirked at my response, his eyes lowering to my breast. I suddenly realized that my top buttons were undone, leaving my breasts almost completely bare.“You,” he let out. I rolled my eyes playfully at him before placing the menu on the table just as Alissa walked in. Based on the way her eyes trained on Valentino, I knew she was about to flirt. Allowing her to do what she had to do, I picked up my menu and looked through it once more.“Anything I could get you to d
When he pulled me back up, he spun me around until my back hit his chest. I haven’t felt so happy in so long. Valentino made the bad luck that always stood in as my shadow, easily disappear. He may be a scary, dangerous man, but he was my savior. My life without him would be a deep pit of darkness.He gave my neck a small kiss before whisking me back around. I lowered my head down on his shoulder as his hands returned to my waist. We continued to sway to the music, loving each other’s embrace.His fingertips trailed down to my bottom, where he moved up the shirt and gripped my ass. I couldn’t help but let out a giggle.“Thank you for this,” I told him. Pulling my head up from his shoulder, I gazed into his eyes. I grabbed ahold of his face and stood on my tippy-toes to kiss his lips. He promised me he would try, and I was loving the effort.“You deserve the world,” he muttered as he grabbed my hands away from his face and leaned down to peck my lips.“Teach me Italian,” I repeated my
ANASTASIAAfter eating, a new waiter walked into the cabin to grab our dishes, bowing a goodbye once he finished. I watched him earnestly as he turned on his heel and walked out of the cabin, leaving Valentino and I completely alone. I watched as he just stared at me. The atmosphere fogged up with sexual tension.“Come here,” he finally said. I stood up from the chair and walked over to him. Valentino pulled his chair out slightly. His eyes dropped from my eyes to my breasts just before traveling down to my waist. Being under his heated gaze left me aroused.My exhilaration only increased when his hand crept underneath the white shirt when he pulled me onto his lap. He smelled so good, and I was loving every inhale.His hand ran through my hair before he grabbed a handful of my strands and craned my neck back, so I was vulnerable to him. I could feel my bottom right on top of his semi-erect cock. His other hand curled around my waist, pulling me in closer.I made sure to move my hips
The restroom looked just as romantic as every other room in the cabin. There were lit candles, wine by the tub, and even roses all around it. Plus, the dim lighting only added to the romantic appeal.All of a sudden, I felt bad for Valentino. He had brought me here and I locked him out of his own room. Maybe I would let him in after my bath.Taking off the torn-up shirt, I slipped out of my shorts. I had to bend over to remove my slippers from my feet. Once I was ready and the tub was full, I turned the water off and climbed in. The hot water coaxed my muscles into instant relaxation. My eyes quickly shut as I leaned back, letting the water work its magic.“You’re enjoying a bath without me? How heartless of you,” Valentino suddenly said. My eyes snapped open as I gazed at the beautiful man before me. He was taking off his shirt, displaying his every muscle.“How did you get in?” I asked, letting the worry drip from my words as he unbuttoned his pants. His body was perfect, and his mu
“I love it when I am inside of you,” he groaned as his hands slid down from my breasts to my ass, where he squeezed my flesh. A moan climbed out of me once again as soon as his finger came down to toy with my clit. My body shuddered and I knew I was close.“Say that again,” I moaned. Even though I had no clue what he said, it sounded completely sexy coming from his mouth.“Come for me, baby,” he said between thrusts. My head fell back once again as he rubbed my clit up and down, and then in circular motions. My body felt like it was tingling, and my head was on fire as pleasure coaxed my veins.Finally, I could feel myself coming. “Fuck!” I moaned as my body shuddered against him. His hand came up to my neck, where he held me against him, while he sped up his thrusting in and out of me. Suddenly, he let out a quiet grunt before coming.“Did you just come inside me?” I questioned. He only turned on the shower in response as the bathwater funneled down the drain. He completely ignored m
ANASTASIAAfter I’m not sure how many rounds, I was laid out on top of Valentino’s chest with his arm around me while his other hand played with my hair. We were both awake, but we were also just deep in our own thoughts.My eyes trailed over to the clock beside the bed to see it was after midnight. “Happy birthday to me,” I whispered. There was a sadness that dawned with my words. I couldn’t help it.“Something’s wrong,” he stated.I didn’t say anything, provoking his hand to stop its movements in my hair. Looking up, I glanced into the blue of his eyes and saw the patience within them.“I’ve never wanted a birthday celebration,” I whispered just before a smile came onto my face as memories raced into my mind. “My sister always made sure I at least did something. She’d make breakfast for me and bake a cupcake with a candle on it. Every year, she’d wake me up and make me blow out the candle before singing me Happy Birthday. We didn’t have the money to do much, but for some reason, she
I combed through it with my fingers and then threw it up in a messy bun. Just like that, I felt absolutely clean.Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. I glanced over at the bed to see that Valentino was still asleep. Instead of waking him, I walked over to the door and pulled it open. Valerio wore a smile on his face as he looked at me. I noticed the clothes in his hand, causing my brows to furrow in confusion.“Hey?” I greeted, but I couldn’t help the smile on my face as I looked at him. He held the bag out for me, which I took before embracing him in a hug. Every girl who worked under his management felt like they could trust him. That’s what I liked most about him. I looked at him as a brother.“Happy birthday, Barbie. Mr. Romano told me to bring these clothes for you both. I have to go, but I’ll see you when you get back.” He smiled as I pulled away. I returned the smile wholeheartedly, nodding my head.“Thank you,” I called out to his retreating form. He turned around briefly
You never needed me, you only needed to believe in yourself.”I could feel my eyes blurring as I looked at my imaginative Aria. “You need to let me go. I have always loved you, my banana, but now you love yourself enough for the both of us.”“Goodbye, Aria. I love you,” I whispered softly.Valerio looked at me with a small smile just as the doors opened. My eyes were quick to look at Valentino, who seemed just as nervous as me. Valerio and I walked in slow strides toward the altar with my smile never leaving my face. As we were walking, my eyes were brimming with tears of joy.We continued down the aisle until we finally made it to the altar, where Valerio kissed my cheek.“Who gives this woman to this man in marriage?” the priest asked.Valerio glanced at me before taking my right hand and placing it into Valentino’s.“I do,” he answered.I smiled at him once more, feeling so thankful to have met him. He then took my left hand and placed it in Valentino’s as well after I had passed m
ANASTASIAIt was definitely not a ‘woo’ experience. Being dressed in an all-white dress that looked so beautiful and elegant should’ve made me feel like a queen. I didn’t feel like a queen at all. My belly was swollen with a baby girl and I couldn’t help feeling nervous.As I stared at myself in the full-length mirror, my hand rubbed my giant baby bump. There was a frown on my face as I looked at myself. I was marrying the man I loved with all of my heart, I was going to have a baby, and I should feel like the happiest person in the world—why was I so scared?“Are you okay?” Isabella asked, coming into the room with Sarah.“Yeah, I just…”Suddenly, I began to cry. I tried my best to not mess up my makeup, but it was already too late. Everything was going to change after this, and I knew it.“Sarah, can you go get her mom?” Isabella asked before walking over to me and bringing me into her embrace.She held me tightly as she rubbed my back up and down.“Don’t cry. If you want, I’ll go s
I got down on my knees and quickly undid his slacks and pushed them down. His erection was long and thick, just perfectly in front of me underneath his boxers. He grabbed my hair and kept my face level with his cock. I pushed down his boxers and bit my lip at the sight of him.I began to stroke it once it was free. I braced myself with my hand on his hip and gripped his shaft with my other hand. I began to jerk him off, slowly at first. When he pulled my hair back, I took that as my cue to stroke him faster and grip his cock tighter.Soon, I started to blow him in earnest. My tongue swirled around his shaft as I brought it into my mouth. Bringing his cock deep into my throat to the point I was at his base before I pulled back while running my tongue along the underside of it. Suddenly, I was bobbing my head faster and faster before I looked up at him. He let out a groan while tossing his head back and shutting his eyes. I sucked him gently, which resulted in me taking his whole shaft
ANASTASIASeven months later“I am really going to miss you guys,” I told Isabella and her big baby bump.She was going to name her baby boy Andrea, and I wished I could witness it all. That day after she was shot, she learned she was pregnant. It hurt to think about how we could’ve experienced everything at the same time, but Valentino helped me let that hurt go.Her recovery was very fast. She was able to walk again in less than a month, seeing as the bullet didn’t hit anything too major. Isabella was quick to forgive Valentino, and the same for Alex.Isabella placed one last small bag into the trunk of the car. It was the last day I would be seeing her. She didn’t want to stay in the lifestyle Valentino and Alex were born in, which I understood. I only wished I didn’t have to miss so much with her gone.“We will make sure to visit at every possible chance.” Isabella smiled. My shoulders fell as I looked at her. It was really going to be lonely without her there.“You ready?” Alex a
I couldn’t even allow myself to have an expression. Everything still felt so wrong. Being happy felt wrong. He lifted my shirt off of me before taking off the shorts that the hospital had given. The fresh panties I got from the hospital were already covered in blood, and as I looked down, I sucked in a breath and started crying once more.He was going to realize that I’m incapable of doing something like carrying his baby. I was a disgrace, which is exactly why Aria should be alive instead of me.“Shh, it’s okay,” he whispered before bringing me into his chest.I knew what he was doing—he was trying not to allow me to see it, but it was stuck on repeat in my brain. It was my baby.He peeled off my panties, which only resulted in me crying more as I wrapped my arms around his neck and sobbed into the crook of his neck. He pulled them down until they were off my legs before allowing his hand to climb up to the clasp of my bra. He undid the clasp and then took it off of me.When I turned
He walked right past me as if I meant nothing.As I leaned against my car, I broke down. Sobs were bubbling out of me, and my tears were falling nonstop. Suddenly, a hand gripped my shoulder, shocking me to turn around. Seeing that it was Alex, surprise stirred in me“Are you okay?” he asked. I hiccupped as I nodded with a small smile. My tears still wouldn’t stop falling.“Isabella is going to be fine. They have her sedated to make things less painful for her, but they said she will be awake by tomorrow,” he informed me. I was glad she would be okay, it felt nice to finally receive some good news. “I feel bad for the way I spoke to my brother. He may not be the best person in the world, but he’s done a lot for me and so little for himself. Even if he almost killed my girlfriend, I know he’s beating himself up for it more than anyone else could. I know my brother enough to say that he didn’t mean anything he just said to you. He gets like that sometimes, where he pushes people away. D
ANASTASIASarah had gratefully gotten the location where Isabella and Valentino were. My heart dropped when she told me they were at the hospital. I prayed they were both okay.I hurriedly made my way to the hospital, the place I’d really begun to hate with every fiber in my body. The moment I arrived, I could see Isabella being pushed through the halls. My jaw dropped when I noticed she was covered in blood. Nurses and doctors were rushing her into a room, and I tried to follow but was pushed back.“Isabella!” I shouted, tears falling from my eyes.I tried to find Valentino, but he was nowhere to be found. Worry clouded my mind as I hoped he wasn’t hurt.I picked up my phone and tried dialing Valentino’s number again, but it wouldn’t go through. It kept going straight to voicemail. This undying need to scream settled within me. I couldn’t handle the thought of losing someone I loved again.“I’m sorry, ma’am, but you’re going to have to go back to the waiting room,” one of the nurses
I held my gun with a smirk on my face. It had been so long that I wanted to see him with the barrel of a gun pointed directly at him. It was karma. I remember when I had been in his same position twenty years ago—scared and hurt.“She did.” I laughed. “Isabella, come here, doll.”She hesitated, but with one look at the gun in my hand, she came over to where I stood.“You told me you were going to prove to me where your loyalty lies, so do it. Prove it to me,” I growled.Her eyes widened when I handed her a different gun. It was small, but it could cause just as much damage as any gun could.“What? No! This isn’t part of the plan!” Isabella shouted. Her eyes were wide as she held the gun. Despite it being small, it looked big in her tiny hands.Suddenly, her dad made a move at her, leaving her to aim the gun at him. Her breathing was heavy as she stared at her father. There was a quiver as she held the gun. Perspiration coated her forehead and her chest was rising and falling dramatica
VALENTINOWhen my brother told me about his suspicions of Isabella possibly being pregnant, I almost lost it. There was no way he wanted to take part in the plan we had been constructing our entire lives. Even when I told him that Dmitri was coming in a week with plans to bring down our entire organization to get his daughter, Alex didn’t care.It didn’t make sense to me how he could be so careless over that girl. I wished I actually wanted to respect my brother’s request for us to drop the mission, but I couldn’t. He didn’t have to go through the nightmares of that day―I did. Luckily for him, he couldn’t remember the way our mother’s eyes stared at me as she begged for someone to help her. He wasn’t able to understand that our whole family looked to me in order to save them, and I didn’t. Alex was so fucking lucky that he didn’t have to go downstairs and clean up all the splatters of blood left in the house. He didn’t have to live through that shit, but I did.To think that he wanted