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80: Tender moment

Penulis: Ahsia Risan
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-04-16 03:43:13

Rafael’s POV

I found her again that afternoon in the west wing near the tall windows that overlooked the garden maze. She was sitting on the windowsill with her knees hugged to her chest and a worn book pressed against her lap bur clearly forgotten.

Her little face was tilted toward the light and dark lashes casting shadows on her cheeks and her silence filled the hallway like a quiet melody. I didn’t say anything at first. I just stood there, watching her because this small, thoughtful girl with the same gray eyes as me that made me stop breathing every damn time she looked at me.

She noticed me eventually because she always always did. Isabella turned her head slowly and gave me a half smile all shy and guardes like she wasn’t sure if I was the same man who snapped at people for breathing too loud or the man who gave her strawberry ice cream when no one was looking.

I didn’t return the smile (I never did) but I stepped closer and held out a small black velvet box. She blinked th
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  • The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property   82: Irreversible

    Adriana’s POVThe kitchen was warm wirh the smell of baked cheese and herbs still lingering in the air clinging to my skin, to my hair, to the fabric of the sundress I’d just slipped into after a quick shower. The lasagna had turned out better than I expected all golden, bubbling ans perfectly layered and though I hadn’t meant to stay in there that long, something about the act of cooking had soothed me and focused me. Grounded me in a way nothing else had recently.I’d just finished wrapping the remaining tray in foil when Anthony strolled in casual as ever biting into a pear like he owned the place. He looks good as ever in all his black uniform. “Well, damn. Smells like somebody’s trying to earn wife material points.” He grinned leaning against the counter with his mouth full.“Isabella asked for lasagna.” I gave him a bland look. “Sure. But the sauce smells like you were trying to seduce the whole house.” He raised a brow clearly amused.I rolled my eyes but the corners of my mo

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  • The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property   83: Run

    Adriana’s POVI didn’t expect the night to end like this but I wouldn’t change a thing. Anna came into the dining room just as Isabella let out a quiet yawn while rubbing at her eyes with that soft pout that always made my heart squeeze. “Time for your painkillers sweetheart.” Anna said to my daughter gently brushing the strands of hair away from Isabella’s face. Isabella kissed me on the cheek all warm and sweet then turned and gave Rafael a mischievous little wink before taking Isabella’s hand. What is going on with these two? Now I’m more curious than ever to find out. I watched my daughter walk away trusting Anna with the same blind faith I had in that woman since she took care of my daughter when she was sick. But as the sound of their footsteps faded down the corridor, a quiet settled in the room that instantly thickened the air.That’s when I felt his eyes. And it was so heavy and dark and smoldering as it roamed all over me. I looked up to find Rafael watching me with an in

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    He bit my other thigh his eyes locked on mine. And then finallyhe gave me what I needed. He latched onto my clit and sucked hard like he wanted to remove the pulse there. I cried out like I was losing my soul.He pressed his palm flat against my belly pinning me to the bed as he ate me with slow and devastating precision. His tongue moved in lazy circles, his lips tugging and then two fingers slid inside me curling just right. When he scraped his teeth across my clit and i fucking came.It was explosive and earth shattering. I shattered screaming his name and bucking beneath his mouth as waves of pleasure tore through me but he didn’t even stop. I remember when he used to go on and on till i am about to don’t. Even as I sobbed and shook, he ripped open the fly of his jeans with one hand on the bed and the other at his crotch. I saw the thick length of him in his fist all huge and flushed and ready. I missed his cock so fucking much. And then he shoved himself inside me in one brutal

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  • The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property   86: Seventeen again

    Adriana’s POVI didn’t sleep not even after he left me shaking and gasping and laid bare and boneless on the bed. My body was sore in the best way. All stretched and marked nd used but not used up. Not even close. I lay there in the dark with the sheets tangled around my waist still feeling the weight of him inside me. The feel of his hands on my hips. The aftershock of that last orgasm is still twitching through my limbs. But it wasn’t enough. Not when my thighs still trembled with the memory of his voice in my ear. Not when every inch of mt skin felt too aware like it was waiting for his hands again. I was flushed anx damp with sweat and my hair a mess across the pillow. And I couldn’t stop replaying it all and his hot growl. The way he looked at me like i was prey. The unhinged hunger in him. And how, for one terrifying glorious moment, I thought he might actually break me in half. I was still thinking about all of it and still clenching around the memory of him when I heard th

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  • The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property   87: Let him

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  • The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property   88: Better brother

    Rafael’s POVShe had finally fallen asleep tangled in my sheets, bare beneath the thick comforter witj lips parted and lashes resting softly on flushed cheeks. She looked innocent there almost too innocent for what we’d done hours ago and how wanton she had looked. Like the whore I had made her years agop. I stood at the edge of the bed for far too long whilke watching the slow rise and fall of her chest and her scent still clinging to my skin. My cock still ached to be buried in her again. But I forced myself to tuck the covers around her and smooth the hair from her temple and leave.Duty called and I’d ignored it long enough. Since Adriana was shot, I’d stepped back from everything. The Brotherhood and the meetings and the responsibilities. Romano didn’t complain, not openly because he knew why I’d gone dark but everyone knew he was preparing to hand over the reins now. The old bastard was throwing a ball. A final, dramatic gesture before he stepped down and left the throne wide

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    Adriana’s POVMy legs were still shaking when he finally let me go. I was strung out and breathless and my thighs slick and trembling from the force of it. His hand gripped the back of my neck, teeth grazing my shoulder as we came together our bodies writhing in a tangled mess of sweat and need and heat. The headboard slammed against the wall once and teice. And then nothing but the sound of ragged breathing and skin sliding against skin. He didn’t kiss me after because he never did.He just groaned low in his throat with his chest rising and falling as he held himself above me for a beat, his dark hair falling in damp strands across his brow and lips parted. I stared up at him almost dazed with my body humming with pleasure and my skin flushed and covered in his scent. He looked like sin. And maybe I did too.Eventually he collapsed beside me, one arm slung lazily across my waist and we lay there in the quiet. I let my fingers wander to his hair (thick and black and always a little

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    Rafael’s POVThe house was quiet when i returned and it was eerily so, the kind of silence that settles only in the deepest hours of the night. I stepped through the front doors, loosening the buttons of my dress shirt as the soft click of my shoes echoed down tje marble hall. I didn’t stop at the bar for a drink. Didn’t pause to check the security reports or glance at the monitots. My feet carried me toward the east wing with a certainty that required no thought.That wing (mine) was hidden from most of the estate and tucked behind an ornate gilded door and a hallway that curved just enough to swallow the noise of the rest of the house. It was my sanctum and only few people are allowed there. A place I didn’t allow many to see. Not even most of my men.But Isabella was there. Her small back was straight on the bench snx her tiny fingers dancing across the keys of the piano I’d hidden away for hero. She saw me and lit up. Her eyes twinkled with joy, a soundless amd sparkling expressio

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    Rafael’s POVShe had finally fallen asleep tangled in my sheets, bare beneath the thick comforter witj lips parted and lashes resting softly on flushed cheeks. She looked innocent there almost too innocent for what we’d done hours ago and how wanton she had looked. Like the whore I had made her years agop. I stood at the edge of the bed for far too long whilke watching the slow rise and fall of her chest and her scent still clinging to my skin. My cock still ached to be buried in her again. But I forced myself to tuck the covers around her and smooth the hair from her temple and leave.Duty called and I’d ignored it long enough. Since Adriana was shot, I’d stepped back from everything. The Brotherhood and the meetings and the responsibilities. Romano didn’t complain, not openly because he knew why I’d gone dark but everyone knew he was preparing to hand over the reins now. The old bastard was throwing a ball. A final, dramatic gesture before he stepped down and left the throne wide

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    Adriana’s POVThe room was silent. His arm was still draped heavy around my waist With one leg thrown possessively over mine like even in his sleep, he needed to pin me down and keep me in place. But hid breathing was slow now as I waited. Waited until the moonlight faded into a pale wash of early dawnuntil I could feel the faintest tug of morning air through the cracked window. My body ached. My thighs were sticky, my core sore and every inch of me used and branded by him. And I couldn’t stay even for one second longer. I needed water all over me. I needed space from him. And I needed to scrub his scent off my skin even though i already knew it wouldn’t come out. This is the last step I shouldn’t have taken but here we are. Holding my breath, I peeled his arm off me inch by inch while wincing when he shifted but didn’t wake. I slid out from under him, my feet hitting the cold floor as I rose slowly with my muscles trembling with exhaustion and overuse. I grabbed the oversized

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    Adriana’s POVI didn’t sleep not even after he left me shaking and gasping and laid bare and boneless on the bed. My body was sore in the best way. All stretched and marked nd used but not used up. Not even close. I lay there in the dark with the sheets tangled around my waist still feeling the weight of him inside me. The feel of his hands on my hips. The aftershock of that last orgasm is still twitching through my limbs. But it wasn’t enough. Not when my thighs still trembled with the memory of his voice in my ear. Not when every inch of mt skin felt too aware like it was waiting for his hands again. I was flushed anx damp with sweat and my hair a mess across the pillow. And I couldn’t stop replaying it all and his hot growl. The way he looked at me like i was prey. The unhinged hunger in him. And how, for one terrifying glorious moment, I thought he might actually break me in half. I was still thinking about all of it and still clenching around the memory of him when I heard th

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