It started with a kiss. His mouth enveloped mine softly, as he let me revel in its softness, the slight demand of his lips as he teased mine with the tip of his tongue.
His kisses were insidious, seeping into every fibre of my being.
I parted my lips, and his tounge entered my mouth deftly in one stroke, tasting me with a sensual roughness.
"Tell me if it gets too much." He ordered softly.
I could only hum in response.
He trailed kisses up my jaw, then down, stopping just short of my cleavage, nipping slightly.
I clawed at his back. "Take off your shirt."
He took my lips again, pla
I woke up in the middle of the night to an empty bed. Mariano's side of the bed was cold, as if he'd been gone for hours.His phone was lying on the bedside table, along with the book he was reading.I noticed that our clothes were still carelessly strewn all over the place, and picked them all up, dressing myself in Mariano's white shirt.The clock struck three suddenly, and there was the sound of muttered Italian phrases from the balcony adjoining Mariano's room.I padded over to him. The sky was dark, with almost no stars, and Mariano sat on a swinging chair, smoking. He had a swinging chair. I giggled to myself. Only 60 year olds have swinging chairs."Hi." I whispered, and
Nora made me try on a hundred different dresses. I tried black, orange, pink, blue, even yellow.It was kind of pathetic how a woman who lived in Italy knew more stores for shopping here than I did.We reached home and she started on dinner.What the fuck happened to getting tired?I offered to help, but she waved me off, wanting to cook for her sons herself.I was talking to Landon on the phone in Mariano's room when he came back."Hi." I told him.He smiled and pointed to the phone. "It's Landon." I whispered. "I'll be with you in a sec."
"I read somewhere that men become inconsiderate after sex." Felicia told me, as she pretended to write notes while our Proffessor Righton lectured about the Romantic Era."Miss Reese? Miss Forte?" Righton called. "What is so vital as to be discussed in the middle of my lecture?""We're discussing..err..Shakespeare, sir!" Fel answered."In the Romantic Era?""Yes. He was very romantic, sir, don't you think? Those eyes that Love's own hand did make?" She grinned. Righton didn't look impressed."Meet me after class." He ordered."Motherfucker." Felicia murmured under her breath, then turned back to me.
"I want you." Mariano's eyes darkened."Right now?""Yes. I always want you. I burn for you, Bella.""This dress isn't very flexible. What if it tears?"He growled impatiently. "Let's just skip this thing."I giggled. "But its important." I admonished.He sighed, then his eyes lit up, fixing on me. "Lift your dress." He ordered. "Spread your legs."I gaped at him. "It will get all crumpled.""I don't care.""I do!" I whined. "I want to look good on my first mafia outing."
I excused myself to the ladies' room, touching up on my makeup, fixing my hair.A woman had followed in right after me. I remembered Mariano introducing her as Firia, someone's daughter.She applied her lipstick in the mirror as I checked to see if I looked okay."You think he's gonna fall in love you?" She questioned snarkly, turning to me. I gave her a blank look. "Do you know that he likes to hurt girls in bed?"No. I wouldn't let her do that to us."I was engaged to him two years ago." She said. Oh? "I'm sure he didn't tell you that.""You're lying." I pronounced."You're a lit
Mariano POVBella. Bella. Bella.My Bella.My Bella shimmied around the kitchen in my shirt, beating up eggs, tossing bacon on the pan, brewing coffee.My woman was making me breakfast. I couldn't be happier.Jesus, Firia had been right. Maybe I was part Neanderthal."Hey." I wrapped an arm around my Bella, pulling her close, nuzzling her neck."Hi." She replied. "Will omelettes do?"She could feed me burnt bread with an octopus and I wouldn't give a fuck, because she had made it.Maybe not the octopus. Nope.
Mariano answered my call at the first ring."Bella?""Hey.""Hey. I'm sorry. Am I forgiven?""Yes." I answered. I felt tears build up at the sound of his voice. I fucking hated that I could cry so easily. That I forgave him like this. "Am I?"God, I was so easy. I felt pathetic. Just forgiving him like this. He was in the wrong here. I should have not made this so easy for him."Why are you apologising? You have done nothing wrong.""I was too dramatic. I overreacted.""It's okay, Bella."
I had planned to watch the intervention from upstairs. I was still wearing Mariano's shirt, watching as Jace Ivankshov and Mariano conversed in a language that definitely wasn't Italian.Emilio leaned against a wall, looking bored out of his mind.Jace Ivankshov didn't look like a mafioso at all. He was wearing a dark blue collared shirt with a minions pattern on it, light wash jeans, and yellow, yes, yellow, sneakers.I giggled silently at his appearance.But the look on his face as he waspishly argued with my boyfriend chilled me to the bone.I decided to go back, because nothing interesting seemed to be happening. They were just talking and I couldn't hear most of it. So I turned
Mariano and I had been married for 5 years now. It had been pleasant. No scratch that, it had been absolutely lovely being married to Mariano Wolfe Lionelli Montefiore Rivera.We loved each other so much, so hard, we needed nothing else.It was around 10 am on a rainy Sunday morning. I was in bed, naked, just having woken up. Mariano had had a meeting early in the morning so he'd left, leaving me in bed alone. I was about to leave this soft haven when the door to our room opened and Mariano stepped in."Good morning,dolcezzaBella." He said."Morning." I said, then rolled over to stare at him. "You're up early. And you're all dressed up."He was wearing h
He proposed the very day he was discharged from the hospital. Naturally, I was shocked beyond words. We'd known each other for all of a few months. I'd told him it was too early. But he'd insisted, and said we didn't have to get married right away."I'll wait." He'd said. "I just want my ring on your finger."So I'd said yes.We'd waited five years, until I had graduated, and had had a job for a year,Working was tough - being a mafia girlfriend and all. And I had to wear a bracelet every day to hide the black rose tattoo on my wrist which signified my allegiance to the Italian mafia.I was Donna, and Mariano had insisted that I just stay at home because he made money that was more t
The doctor had told us that Mariano should stay in the hospital for atleast another week. He was fine, but they wanted to keep a check on him. Mariano was...a little against that idea. He wanted to go home. But in the end I did convince him to stay, and he begrudgingly accepted. He did get, a private room, though. Turns out the Riveras had actually financed a wing of the hospital, which was the reason they enjoyed so much prestige her. I had just thought it was a mafia thing.I was currently in Mariano's room just chilling around him when Emilio peeped in through the door."Hey!" He greeted me, and handed me a packet. "I got you a proscuitto sandwich."Yum."Thanks!" Mariano chimed in, "I'm really hungry."Emilio hesitated. "Its not for you. The nurse will get you your food,fratello."I giggled. Mariano had been begging me to get him food from the outside."Thanks, Emilio." I told him gratefully, and he left.I q
I cried in the shotgun seat as Emilio drove. Mariano was lying in the back. I'd taken off his suit jacket, and his white shirt was bloodied. I couldn't bear to look at him, so I stared straight ahead at the winding road."He'll be alright." Emilio promised."It's so near to his heart." I sobbed. "I love him so much. I can't live without him.""You won't have to. We have the best doctors."How could he be so normal about this?"Why didn't he wear a fucking bulletproof jacket?" I shouted.Emilio flinched. "He was in a hurry."I cried harder. He'd come to save me, and now he was passe
"Landon?"My heart sank. What the hell? What was sweet, sweet Landon who brought me pizza and brownies and made me laugh and watch Harry Potter with me doing here? The truth was hard to take in.I clenched my eyes shut, crying a lot more. Out of all the scenarios I had expected to play out, this had not been one of them. Of all the people in the world, it had to be him? I don't know what hurt more, my broken nose, or his betrayal."Hi, Izzy." He said.I shook my head hard. This was a dream. This had to be a dream. Landon wouldn't...But no matter how much I tried to lead myself astray from the truth, Landon had betrayed me. Landon was part of the Russian Mob.
I woke up in a car. My hands were tied behind my back, scotch tape on my mouth, andmy feet tied together in a way that was way too easy to untie by myself. I got out of the restraints but remained laying in the backseat as the two burly men sitting in the front talked in a language that definitely wasn't Italian.I pulled the tape off of my lips slowly, then waited for the pain to subside. I breathed deeply. This wasn't new territory for me. And I had been prepared for this situation. Mariano had told me not to worry if something like this happened. I just had to be brave and keep myself safe. He would always be righe behind me. He'd come save me, soon."Hey guys, the last time I woke up in a car I found the love of my life. Tell me, do you have hot men where you're taking me?"
Back in our room, Mariano began undressing, but I went straight to the bathroom with my night clothes in hand and changed.In the room, he was just in his sweats, and looked at me strangely, as I got into bed."Good night!" I told him cheerfully. He tipped his head to the side and stared. "Get out of bed."I shook my head, elaborately yawning. "I'm sleepy."He raised his eyebrows. "Now."With a smug look on my face, I went and stood in front of him.He wordlessly began unbuttoning my shirt, shrugging it off of me. I wasn't wearing a bra, and he smiled. "We're going to have some fun with you, today." With that, he gave me a little shove so I fell on the bed, and him on top of me.He always kissed me with so much passion it took my entire breath away. I had been kissed by him so many times now, but it always took my breath away. It made me fall onto the floor at his feet and worship him. It made me want to write
"Bella!" Someone was shaking me. "Bella, wake up!"I shook their hand away. "Go away, I'm tired."They sighed, "Bella, up."Ugh. I slowly cracked open my eyes. Mariano. "What do you want?""Wake up, its time for dinner. You've been sleeping for three hours."Damn.I shifted in the bed to make room for him. "Okay, ten minutes," Then I spread my arms, "Cuddles?"He sighed, and got into bed with me, snuggling close, with one hand wrapped around me and the other absently playing with my breast. He placed a small kiss on my forehead. "I'm sorry about my father. He was being an asshole.""It's okay." I assured him. "I can't expect your family to welcome me with open arms.""Your family did.""My family is also not the biggest crime family in the world."He chuckled. "I am very lucky to have you, Bella.""And I am lucky to have you." I smiled.We lay in bed for a while, but then he threw
For Christmas, Mariano got a star christened Bella. And he also got me a super beautiful charm bracelet. I'd only gotten him a cute T shirt and made him a cutesy card. My gift, was well, pretty rudimentary. But also because I'm poor, unlike him.But he'd put on the T shirt the next day, and smiled like a giggly teenager for hours after reading the card. Then he'd kissed me in front of my whole family, and Dad had turned away, rolling his eyes.It had been the best Christmas I had ever had.Before flying to Italy, Mariano and I decided to take a stroll through town so that I could show him my school and the places I used to hang out at with my friends.We met a lot of acquantainces, and I introduced him to everyone. But I mistook the s