JULIET POV I'm a sick individual. Maybe some of my brain cells died from all of the choking episodes I went through with my father. Or maybe my mother brainwashed me so much as a child that the hatred I felt towards the Morettis has turned into this haze of lust where I can't control myself around them anymore. It's been more than a week since Alonso last savagely fucked me under the terrace of his house where everyone probably heard me. I haven't heard from him since, and like a beggar, I texted and called him, but he never answered. I missed his nightly pick-ups and the fiery kisses he left me with in his truck when he dropped me off at my dorm. I felt discarded like yesterday's trash, but didn't everybody warn me that Alonso Moretti wasn't the kind of guy who kept girlfriends around? Yet, I wanted to change my outlook for him and look where it got me. It got me in a broom closet with my skirt hiked up and my panties pulled down, and his angry triplet brother's fingers deep ins
ARCANGELO POV "So, where's the girlfriend?" Aunt Phobe nudges me with her elbow. "You know I was a cheerleader in high school, right?" I raise my eyebrows with a smile. "So I've heard." "Ugh!" She rolls her eyes dramatically. "I used to be so hot! Now look at me, old and dreary." "You're most definitely not old and dreary." I reassure her. "In fact, you're one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen." She smiles delightfully. My aunt loves getting her ego stroked, and her personality is vastly different from my mom's, but I'm not lying. They are extremely beautiful, and while my mother isn't someone who bothers to flaunt it, my aunt has made a fortune from it. The way my mother carries herself reminds me slightly of Juliet. Is that maybe the reason I'm so attracted to her? Juliet hardly wears any makeup, not that she needs it. It's the twenty-first century, and the girl doesn't even have a social media account. I don't know if it's suspicious or admirable. I l
JULIET POV It's game day, and I'm more nervous for Alonso than he probably is. He's done this countless times before, but today, he is captain and playing first-string, and vying for everything he's ever wanted in college football. The Heisman trophy. He's not talking to me, but I sent him a good luck text. And he will never talk to me again once he finds out that another brother had his hands inside my pussy and made me cum. And that I loved it. And hope that he will do it again. "You ready?" Scott smiles down at me when we're standing in the tunnel ready to go out. "Born ready." I beam. I love cheerleading, but I know that after school, it will be over, especially if I plan on going to medical school. The crowd is absolutely electric when we run out and take our places in front of our side of the stadium. I've never seen so many blue and white in my entire life, and I might be a miserable person, but happiness floods through me as I wave my pom poms up at
ALONSO POV I'm still on a high after all the interviews are done, and the buzz in the locker room is infectious. Wesley claps me on the back with a wide smile. "What a fucking epic start! Party on Greek row, don't bring your girlfriend, the pussy will be overflowing tonight!" I chuckle and shake my head. "I have to pass. My family is in town. Maybe I'll stop by after dinner for a beer, but my girlfriend will come with me." Fuck, I missed the girl. I've been ignoring her messages and calls and trying to stay far away from her, but as soon as I saw her tonight, I knew my attempt was futile. I can't deny that her saying she wanted to kiss Arc isn't still in the back of my mind. Because that's all I've been thinking of these last two weeks. What if I'm not the one she really wants? What if she belongs with Arc and not me? And I might have made things worse by fucking her in front of him. That's the shit he lives for. I know for a fact he was looking at us, I could feel i
JULIET POV "It was so freaking cool, Juliet!" Mai's eyes are wide, and her cheeks flushed with excitement. " Evan Micheals was just sitting there, a few chairs from mine! I couldn't even take a selfie because Arc invited me to sit there. It would've looked weird, right?" "Yeah, definitely no selfies." I adjust the blue dress I put on in lieu of school spirit. Mai has been ranting since after the game about how she sat in the stands with the Morettis, reality and football stars and the Micheals. I'm not gonna lie. The sight of them made me a little nervous, especially seeing Bailey glued to Alessi's side. I don't like the girl. She thinks she can warn me off the triplets and that I'm weak enough to actually obey. If it wasn't going to ruin my relationship with Alonso, it would have been great to tell her all about her boyfriend having his fingers inside me just yesterday. Also, I thought I would feel some type of way at seeing Alessandro Moretti in real life, the sole re
ALESSI I love having my family around, but I could've done without Bailey hanging onto me and kissing me every chance she gets. It's giving clingy vibes, and I really don't find it attractive at all. What I do find attractive is the girl I warned just yesterday to stay away from my brothers. Yet, here she is, looking demure and breathtaking in a blue dress with her hair in soft waves, looking like a fucking magazine cover. "I wanna tell you something." Bailey whispers in my ear, and I take my eyes off Juliet, who is laughing at something Alonso said. "What?" I ask, not really interested in hearing the answer. "I was thinking, why don't I get a boob job just before Thanksgiving break?" She beams like it's the best idea she's ever come up with. "Why the hell would you want to do that?" I frown. I actually can't believe that someone as smart as her would want to get shit like that done. "Everyone is doing it." Her face falls, and she leans back in her chair. "Si
ARCANGELO POV Juliet Monroe is indeed the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Sitting across from me with her hair glowing in the red lantern, she looks like the epitome of all my dreams. Dreams I didn't even know I had. And I'm sporting a semi ever since Alonso gave me that proposal of one night with her. I haven't stopped thinking of what it would feel like to feel her from the inside. Like when my family is always together, it's complete chaos in the restaurant, and I'm happy they booked the place for the night because other people might have thought we were crazy with everyone trying to speak over the other. Madison nudges me in the side, and I throw my arm around my baby cousin's shoulders. She's fifteen, so she's not exactly a baby anymore, but she's the pride and joy of our family. Her parents tried to conceive as soon as they got married, but it didn't happen right away, and after my aunt had an extremely difficult pregnancy with her, my uncle Kevin dec
JULIET POV Mai laughs drunkenly and throws her arms around my neck as we sway to the music coming from the speakers. I told her to take it easy on the bourbon, but she's been swigging nonstop from the bottle. "This is the best university experience ever!" She throws her head back, and I have to stabilize her before we both go tumbling to the ground. Strong hands grip my hips from behind, rolling me into his body to the rhythm of the music. I've been wet ever since we got here, and Alonso has sneaked in heated kisses and illicit touches. I thought I might go mad when Arcangelo put on sultry jazz and followed me around with his heated gaze. This might be all too much for me. The other times he looked at me like that, we were alone. And the last time I stupidly uttered that I wanted to kiss him, I didn't see for Alonso for two weeks. Under no circumstances can Alonso see Arcangelo looking at me like he wants to devour me. I don't care to find out what Alonso would do
ALESSI POV In my life, I have never seen something more perfect than my twin daughters. Love like I've never experienced before took a hold of me when these two tiny little girls were born. I've always been my brothers' keeper, the one with the solid head on his shoulders. I think those titles were just preparing me for this role. A father. "Are they supposed to be that small?" Alonso peers through the glass of the incubator. "Are they sick? Why are they in the baby growing thing?" Arc joins Alonso to peer through the glass to the perfection that is my daughters. "It's just procedure." I enlighten them. "They were born on thirty-seven weeks, but they're healthy and perfect." Utterly perfect. They look like their mom, but babies' faces change every single day. "Dude, you have to tell me how do I get Summer to marry me."I tell Alonso. He managed to bag Amelia, even with all the shit that was going on at the time. "You just ask her." He tells me without
AMELIA POV What was supposed to be the happiest time in my life has become one of the worst. Alonso is lying with his head in my lap, my fingers running through his hair as we're waiting for news from the doctors who are operating on Arcangelo. Bailey striked again. This time, she got caught, and her fucking parents can't get her out of this one this time. The shooting is on every social media site, it's trending on the internet. Videos are circulating around from fans. I feel so sorry for Lola. She's still wearing the dress she performed in, clutching Cassie to her chest as if she might lose her, too. They gave her something to wipe the blood from her arms, but there's a faint streak of it left on her cheek. The world would be a worse place if Arcangelo died. I kiss Alonso's cheek, and his eyes flutter open, sorrow in the swirl of green and brown. Alonso would not be the same person if he had to lose one of his brothers. They're all an extension of each other, and I pra
ALONSO POV I'm in seventh heaven. I know the bomb will explode very soon, but right now, I'm blissfully holding my wife in my arms as she's coming down from another orgasm. My wife. I fucking love the sound of that. It's not the way I wanted to do it. She deserves a big wedding with a designer dress and a big, fat diamond ring, and I promised her that I would give her all of that, but she said our wedding was the best. I thread my fingers through hers and kiss the diamond wedding band on her finger. I've already arranged appointments with jewelry designers for her engagement ring, and then I will do it the right way. "I fly out tomorrow afternoon with the team." I reluctantly tell her. "I want you there, but I also don't want you in the open where Bailey can easily get to you." She sighs and nuzzles her face in my neck. "I know. Maybe I'll arrange to see my parents while you're not here." "No!" I say definitely. "We face them together, I'm not sending you into the lion
ARCANGELO POV I must have died and gone to heaven. I have the girl I've been pining over up against a wall with her full, succulent lips eagerly moving under mine. She was a vision tonight in the elegant black dress with her dark curls spilling everywhere. Her lips were painted a fiery red that enticed me the entire time, and I just couldn't stop myself anymore. I tried being respectful because she has a child. My plan was to make her fall so irrevocably in love with me that by the time I did kiss her, she wouldn't be able to resist me. I wanted her to trust me implicitly, to make her feel that I would never let her down, that I'm solid. I hope I did enough because just this one taste of her is making me addicted, and I don't think I would be able to stop touching her now. She groans underneath my mouth, opening those lips like a flower, and I take that opportunity to plunge my tongue inside. She tastes like mint and desire, and a groan rumbles from my chest. I think I might
LOLA POV I don't exactly know what is going on with my life right now. It's like I'm in a twilight zone, part of a family in an instant. Arcangelo refuses to let me and Cassie go back to the label's apartment, and at first, I felt slightly awkward being at his parents' house, but everyone else handled it like it was completely normal. I understand that Alessi's ex-girlfriend apparently almost killed Alonso's girlfriend a few years back, so everyone who might be in danger right now has to stay here. But I'm not even his girlfriend. I'm just one of the artists he signed. Right? Wrong. I've never experienced anything that I feel for Arcangelo. The sexual tension is brewing underneath the surface whenever we touch. It's in the songs that we write together, in the way we gaze into each other's eyes when we think nobody is watching. Every night, after a big dinner, and I've given Cassie her bath and taken a shower, we climb into his bed. About an hour after when Cassie is f
ALONSO POV I can't believe one girl has the power to have all of us on our toes. I, for sure, never thought the sweet girl that we grew up with would turn out to be some obsessed psychopath. Apparently, Evan and Sammy Micheals have Bailey's son. They took her son from her when she was starting to talk about us again over the phone. My parents are pissed because they weren't even warned. Let's just say that the friendship between the Morettis and the Micheals would never be salvaged again. "What's with the security?" One of my teammates asks as we finish up at the stadium. "You good man?" Fuck, I love this team. We're new, and certainly the underdogs, but we're becoming a family. They've been concerned about me ever since the allegations of sexual assault. It's dfficult being in the public eye, and they all know how it feels to be under such scrutiny. "I'm good, but there's someone who's a bit too obsessed, just being cautious." "Be careful out there." He claps me on the s
AMELIA POV "Bailey Micheals has been sighted by Alessi Moretti yesterday." I hear the words coming out of my father's mouth, but it's like it doesn't register at first. I blink rapidly, trying to make sense of what he just said. "You said she would never set foot in this country again!" My mother jumps from her chair in front of my father's desk. "You promised!" "She didn't come in with her real passport. We're scouring security footage to try and see which airport she came through." My heart starts beating rapidly after it missed a few beats. Fear rushes through me in an instant. Bailey is going to kill me. "You don't have to worry about anything." Dad looks at me. "There's no way she'll be able to get to you here." Just another reason to keep me locked up in my gilded cage. I can't do this anymore. It feels like I'm going fucking insane. Even when I'm strolling in the garden, I can feel eyes on me like a hawk. I know I said that this is what I have to
ARCANGELO POV I'm in bed, and Bach is playing softly through the surround sound, but I can't fall asleep, my mind on the dark-haired petite beauty that is in my building. Lola is on my mind twenty-four-seven. She's the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning and the last person in my thoughts before I close my eyes. Working with her has been nothing but astonishing. We've been writing music about love, loss, happiness, hurt, and so entwined in our own little bubble that the assistants have to remind us to eat. I have never met someone who understands how I make music like she does. It's like she was always tethered to my soul, and I just had to find her in the cosmos. Even Cassie crept under my skin. She calls me her prince charming, and I'm not mad about it. I wonder what they're doing right now. Cassie is probably asleep already, maybe Lola, too. What would it feel like if they were here? Would Lola listen to classical music with me while I run my finge
ALESSI POV I feel slightly guilty for being this happy, but fuck, I can't help it. My internship is coming to an end. I still have the two-day assessment coming up before I'm officially a resident, but I've been working for this all my life. I'm prepared and ready. Then I have this gorgeous woman roaming my apartment with my babies in her belly. Granted, she's currently shooting lasers at me while I'm calmly sipping my coffee before I have to leave for my shift. "You don't get to decide if I work or not, Alessi!" Summer shouts at me, pink blotches appearing on her cheeks. "You're completely taking over my life! First my apartment, and now this!" I might have told her supervising nurse that she will probably have to hire another nurse soon, seeing that Summer might quit her job. "I was just thinking about the future." I shrug. "You're mine, and I have to take care of you. Carrying twins is not going to be easy on your body, you think you can work the shifts you do being se