21. I will keep you

ANTONIO

My blood still raged in my veins even after beating the bastard to a pulp until my own knuckles bled and my fingers felt swollen. But this rage wasn’t just because of what the man had done to my little devil, touched her without her permission when he had no right, for that alone he deserved to die. But this inferno of hot rage, it also constitutes the fact that I still couldn’t come to terms with how she didn’t give me an answer when I asked her if she wanted to go back to her family. No matter how much I tried, my mind circled back to that and it fûcking enraged me enough that I felt the ache of that in my chest.

And, now as I fisted her hair and claimed her mouth, it wasn’t just for her. She might’ve asked for it but it was all for me. I kissed her like a starving beast who wanted to devour her bite by bite. Make her a part of me and never let her go. I bit down on her bottom lip, ravaged her mouth and sucked on her tongue. She gasped into my mouth and I breathed for her, s