A heated moan shivered on my lips in pain as I continued to cry. “You have to wake up so you can be with me.” I kissed his hand again. “Please don’t leave me.”
“Never.”
A gasp ripped from my throat at his slur. “Tino? Tino, are you up?”
Nothing happened for a second or two, and I thought I’d imagined it. Then his fingers moved faintly in my hand, squeezing.
I squeezed back, crying in relief. “You’re awake. You’re here.”
I yelled for the doctors, and they hurried in with Arancia. They checked him and the monitors and assured me he was stable now.
The dark blue eyes smiled at me again, swallowing me in where I belonged, promising me the life I’d never thought I needed and turned out to be exactly what I dreamed.
When the doctors were done, they left me alone in the room with Tino.
“I thought you’d be gone by now,” he said.
I smiled, shaking my head. “You won’t get rid of me that easily.”
“What about Leo?”
I heard the blame in his voice. “I’m sorry. I was an idiot. But that’s our thing. I make a stupid mistake, and you save me from it.”
“And punish you for it. I’m not gonna stop doing that.”
“I hope so. It’s the best part.”
His lips stretched with a faint smile. “Come here, you naughty, naughty girl.”
I nestled carefully into his arms and rested my head on his chest, as if I was the one that needed his care, that needed to heal.
“So about that baby I need to put in you…”
I laughed. “You heard that?”
“Every word.”
My eyes glanced up at his. His gaze held me as his arms did. “I can’t live without you either. Why, Angel?”
“Because I’m yours, and you’re mine. Always.”
He kissed my head, breathing in my hair. “Always, my sweet Angel.”
The End
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N. J. Adel, the author of The Italians, All the Teacher’s Pets, Her Royal Harem, and I Hate You then I Love You series, is a cross genre author. From chocolate to books and book boyfriends, she likes it DARK and SPICY.
Bikers, rock stars, angry mobsters, dirty Hollywood heartthrobs, dark anti-heroes, smexy guards and men who serve. She loves it all.
She is a loather of cats and thinks they are Satan’s pets. She used to teach English by day and write fun smut by night with her German Shepherd, Leo. Now, she only writes the fun, dark and twisted spice.
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