ERICA“I’d die instead of being used as a weapon by you to hurt my family. I will do anything to not let you hurt them, they don’t deserve it.”“And I deserve this?” He asked, his eyes a pair of burning inferno. His words cutting me, slice by slice as he said, “Do I deserve to have every person I care about be taken away from me? Do I deserve to be remain in this cold world all alone despite how fucking much I try to protect everyone around me, but in the end they will just leave me? That’s what I deserve?”Silence reigned between us before I answered through thick tears crowding my throat, “No. No one deserves that.” I fisted my hands by my side unless I reach for him. “But I can’t give you what you need at the expense of my family, at the expense of my sister’s happiness.”“It won’t come to it.” I looked up at him. He took my hand in his, his touch gentle as his thumb caressed the back of my hand. “I am done.” My heart squeezed in pain even though it was the same sentiment going th
ERICAAntonio pushed me against the wall, his body pressed into mine as he deepened the kiss with a hungry groan. He held me tight, to the point of bruising me as his kiss went from desperate to angry as if he was punishing me for making him feel this way.I gave into his demands, my body was starving for his lips and hands. I wanted him with a desperation of my own so when he pulled back a whimper left me before I could stop it. One moment I was against the wall, looking into his intense glowing eyes and the very next moment he slipped his hand to the back of my head and pulled me away from the wall. His golden gaze seemed to dug through layers of my feelings as he stared at me for a long minute before he kissed me again.“On your knees.” He growled roughly.I caught a glimpse of uncertainty in his eyes as if he wasn’t sure if I will obey his command. But where he was concerned, my body was his to do with, he was the one who introduced it to pleasure after all. I didn't take my eyes
ERICAAntonio pulled his pants up and picked me up from the floor with my half undone clothes. His strides were long and sure as he took me to our bedroom upstairs. Our, the thought made my chest ache, it wouldn’t be for longer. I looked at him, my insides crumbling for what I planned to do but I knew it was the only way out. Betray the only man who showed me the love I needed and didn't think could ever get, or let him ruin my sister’s happiness, the sister who was the only light that had me living the nightmare my childhood was.When we reached the bedroom, he walked to the bed, not a hint of tiredness was shown on his handsome face as he put me down on the bed. I watched as he undressed. One by one his clothes came off, revealing his huge body with those toned muscles and bulky built. He was really a mountain of a man living in a castle on a cliff. And he took me as his captive, who like all the clichés before me fell for my own captor. But I knew, like I was scared of, it wasn’t S
ERICAAntonio came back a few minutes later but it didn’t give me enough time to calm my raging heart. I wondered if he could see the shame written on my face as he met my eyes and sat down on the bed with a dish in one hand and a bottle of wine and two glasses in his other hand. “I brought red wine to go with your food.” I thanked him and prayed to whatever god was listening that the tears I held at bay didn’t make their appearance. “Come.” He pulled me closer and I watched as he put the glasses down and filled them with red wine before giving one to me. “I am letting you have this one because you asked so nicely.” I smiled, a genuine smile. “Now, you plan to stop me from drinking too?”He looked down at the plate of lasagne he had brought and even as my stomach let out a hungry grumble at the delicious scent, I was half afraid of getting sick with all the nerves. “I should’ve stopped you way before, and maybe then what happened wouldn’t have happened.” He replied in a gruff tone,
ERICA“I want you to love me.” I said, my voice rough and tight with my emotions. It took me a moment to raise what I had said she fire different it was then what I was going to say.Before I could rephrase it, I felt his hand travelled from my stomach to the valley between my breasts to my throat. He loosely circled my throat as he replied, “I already do, little devil.”It should shock me but it didn’t. Hadn't he already said it and showed to me in so many ways, but those simple words had a different effect on me. The love starved little girl cried inside me. She wanted to hold on to him tightly and didn’t want to let go. Our eyes locked and a tear escaped from mine. I smiled, trying to shake it off as I replied, “I know.” I licked my lips and said, “I meant... Make love to me, please.” And if possible love me forever, even after my betrayal because I will love you to the end of the world. He dropped his forehead to mine and said in a voice so soft that I had never heard from him be
ANTONIOThirty minutes ago....I was in the kitchen, pulling out a plate to serve the lasagne I had heated in the microwave, when I heard the soft words as if someone was speaking them directly behind me, and it felt like a knife was being pushed into my back. Slowly and painfully. The echoing walls of the castle had made it possible to hear Gianna and her sharp exclamation, at first it had caught me by surprise and I almost didn’t believe what I was listening to. When I stepped into the corner of the kitchen, half inside the pantry it became much easier and clearer to hear the conversation happening just above me where I stood, in my daughter's room, between her and my wife who shredded my heart as she planned her escape even after I confessed to her what she meant to me.But I didn’t accept it right away. I gave her the benefit of doubt, I gave her a chance considering that I hadn’t been someone she could easily trust. So when I returned to the bedroom, I pretended to not be aware o
ERICA“Going somewhere, little devil.”I gasped as I recognised his voice, my blood chilling in my veins. I slowly looked up and sure enough I found him standing at the threshold of the castle like a beast. In the darkness only his eyes shone like two burning embers and I swallowed at the way his features hardened.I blinked at him, for a moment I thought I was hallucinating until he took a step forward and the moon cast shadows across his face, and lightening half of it showing the rage that dripped from him like molten lava. His golden eyes stared at me like he hated me. “One would think it wouldn’t hurt this much when you already know what’s going to happen.”My lips parted on a shocked exhale. I didn’t understand. He drank the wine. There were two of those sleeping pills. I blinked at him as I choked out, “How?”He didn’t respond to my question. His voice was cold and clipped as he ordered, “Let’s go inside.”I stood there, frozen, still unable to comprehend. In the back of my min
ERICAI put the gun to my head and just as I pulled the trigger his hand shot out directing it upward. I almost passed out as the gunshot rang out in the cold darkness, my ear rang from it and my breath left suspended in my lungs, making it impossible to breathe out. I fell against him as he pulled me with a jerk on my hand. “Fuck. I have had enough of your nonsense.” He sounded feral, a wild beast on the loose. With a single twist of his arm, he took the gun from me and then with a hand at the back of my neck he dragged me inside. “Sei così fottutamente testardo. Ne ho abbastanza di questo. Metterò fine a tutto questo una volta per tutte. Non capisci la gentilezza e non capisci il mio amore.” You are so fucking stubborn. I've had enough of this. I will put an end to this once and for all. You don't understand kindness and you don't understand my love. “È ora di mostrarti quanto posso essere crudele. E tu, cazzo, ricordati che mi hai fatto fare questo.” It’s time to show you how cr