don’t find it attractive that you go around beating up guys all because you cannot control your jealousy. So please, reframe from doing it. Also, I need you to respect that my education is my main priority, and everything else is secondary. Most importantly, material things and monetary values do not impress me. I don’t care about your money or your social status because it is not benefiting me,” she said firmly. Her forwardness was a complete turn on.
“Fair enough. But, I need you to understand that I am going to take care of you regardless because that is what real Italian men do. I need you to promise me that if you need or want anything, you let me know first,” I said staidly as I got lost in her beautiful eyes, and she nodded her head slowly.
Chapter Seventeen
3½ months later
Andriano
S he looked breathtakingly gorgeous in her red silk shirt and black leather shorts. Her hair was pulled up in a high sleek ponytail, and she wore little to no makeup on her flawless cocoa skin. She wore black peep-toe stilettos that enhanced her thick thighs and toned legs. I stood outside of my car speechless, as she walked closer to me. When she was finally within arm’s length, I pulled her body towards me and kissed her sweet lips.
After three months of dating, she still had the same effect on my entire body—a bolt like spark that shocked me everywhere. I don’t know how I am going to ever give her up when she holds my heart, I thought each and every time my mind drifted off to how my life would be once she was gone. Surely, I knew that it would never be the same. But, I couldn’t… NO …I refuse to accept it.
We spent the first two months dating and learning about each other. I don’t know how I managed to keep my hands off of her for two months, but I had to convince her that it was more than just sex between us. I did feel a hint of guilt—mainly because she did not know me. I gave her little to no information about me by keeping the focus directly on her. She’d opened up about her mother and stepfather and why she decided to go away to school. I had to resist the urge to kill her stepfather, Henry, with my bare hands. Without consciously knowing, I had adopted her problems, and I felt a level of responsibility to make her world perfect. The amount of hardship that she experienced in life has made her unbreakable. But, I know that I was playing a dangerous game by being with her.
I never knew the exact moment when I had fallen in love with her, but I knew that I wanted to turn that emotion off. Everything that I knew about myself became unclear. I was so engrossingly eager to fulfill my duty to my family and La Cosa Nostra. I lived and breathed everything that this lifestyle represented. If loyalty was not my strongest suit, I would have chosen her…my bella mia . Though, I’ve never vocally revealed my feelings to her, I couldn’t hide how I felt physically. Her beautiful spirit was refreshing and all too new for me. She was not superficial or fake, like most other women who surrounded me.
Simone will never understand how beautiful she is on the outside, as well as on the inside. She’s completely down to earth and has a heart bigger than life. Even Reed appreciated her refreshing personality. Every other Friday, all three of us would cook dinner together and joke around until the early morning. Reed was the only person who knew about Simone, and I intended to keep that part of my life a secret. She will never know why we could never have anything permanent . The thought of her moving on after our relationship was unsettling. A large part of me knew that if I ever found out about the new man in her life…let’s just say that I should not be held liable for any harm that “just so” happens to come his way. I know—selfish of me, right? But that’s what love does to you.
Before her, I accepted my marriage arrangement to Josephine Capparelli.
“Fair enough. But, I need you to understand that I am going to take care of you regardless because that is what real Italian men do. I need you to promise me that if you need or want anything, you let me know first,” I said staidly as I got lost in her beautiful eyes, and she nodded her head slowly.
Chapter Seventeen
3½ months later
Andriano
S he looked breathtakingly gorgeous in her red silk shirt and black leather shorts. Her hair was pulled up in a high sleek ponytail, and she wore little to no makeup on her flawless cocoa skin. She wore black peep-toe stilettos that enhanced her thick thighs and toned legs. I stood outside of my car speechless, as she walked closer to me. When she was finally within arm’s length, I pulled her body towards me and kissed her sweet lips.
After three months of dating, she still had the same effect on my entire body—a bolt like spark that shocked me everywhere. I don’t know how I am going to ever give her up when she holds my heart, I thought each and every time my mind drifted off to how my life would be once she was gone. Surely, I knew that it would never be the same. But, I couldn’t… NO …I refuse to accept it.
We spent the first two months dating and learning about each other. I don’t know how I managed to keep my hands off of her for two months, but I had to convince her that it was more than just sex between us. I did feel a hint of guilt—mainly because she did not know me. I gave her little to no information about me by keeping the focus directly on her. She’d opened up about her mother and stepfather and why she decided to go away to school. I had to resist the urge to kill her stepfather, Henry, with my bare hands. Without consciously knowing, I had adopted her problems, and I felt a level of responsibility to make her world perfect. The amount of hardship that she experienced in life has made her unbreakable. But, I know that I was playing a dangerous game by being with her.
I never knew the exact moment when I had fallen in love with her, but I knew that I wanted to turn that emotion off. Everything that I knew about myself became unclear. I was so engrossingly eager to fulfill my duty to my family and La Cosa Nostra. I lived and breathed everything that this lifestyle represented. If loyalty was not my strongest suit, I would have chosen her…my bella mia . Though, I’ve never vocally revealed my feelings to her, I couldn’t hide how I felt physically. Her beautiful spirit was refreshing and all too new for me. She was not superficial or fake, like most other women who surrounded me.
Simone will never understand how beautiful she is on the outside, as well as on the inside. She’s completely down to earth and has a heart bigger than life. Even Reed appreciated her refreshing personality. Every other Friday, all three of us would cook dinner together and joke around until the early morning. Reed was the only person who knew about Simone, and I intended to keep that part of my life a secret. She will never know why we could never have anything permanent . The thought of her moving on after our relationship was unsettling. A large part of me knew that if I ever found out about the new man in her life…let’s just say that I should not be held liable for any harm that “just so” happens to come his way. I know—selfish of me, right? But that’s what love does to you.
Before her, I accepted my marriage arrangement to Josephine Capparelli.
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