Ties & Loyalties: A Mafia Romance PREVIEW ©Ryan Michele 2015

I told my best friend no more secrets. I was so damn pissed at her for keeping what that asshole had been doing to her from me. I could have helped her. I could have done … something. Nevertheless, she took all the weight on her shoulders and carried it for months on her own. I wanted to kick her ass. Hell, I should have.

Except, I had been keeping something from her, too. It wasn’t something to be ashamed of. No, it was something I wanted to keep all to myself because it was all I had left. It was all it would ever be.

One night was all it took to flip my life up on its head.

One night with Rex …

“Babe.” He pulled me into his rock hard body, my head resting on his shirt-covered chest, my arms barely fitting around his toned body. I went willingly, needing some kind of comfort.

I inhaled his scent, letting it permeate down to my toes, making them curl inside my shoes. No human should smell this good. Hell, I hadn’t thought a human could smell like this, like you wanted to eat them up and have them for dessert … over and over again. That was what Rex smelled like. It was sin, and I couldn’t stop myself from wanting more.

His hand sifted through my hair, giving it a tug and forcing my head to lift from his heat to meet what I first thought were cold blue eyes. Now that I’d had time to get a closer look, they weren’t really cold, just intense and absolutely entrancing. They weren’t merely blue; no, they had some silver flecks around his irises, making them almost sparkle.

It was what was behind his eyes that pulled me. Something was there, something unrelenting. It was something I wanted to—no, that I was compelled to explore.

It took me a moment to realize my face was covered with tears. In a panic, I quickly yet regretfully removed my arms from him and swiped at my face. Along with tears, mascara ran down my fingertips. Just great.

It was bad enough he had caught me crying; now he was going to see me with raccoon eyes. It just kept getting better and better.

I had told myself over and over again that what was happening around me wasn’t going to break me. I had told myself that I was stronger, but when we didn’t hear anything about Catarina, I broke. She was my best friend, sister, and that asshole had just taken her. The entire house was in an upheaval, and I could do nothing, not one damn thing to help the situation.

I felt so damn lost, hurt, broken.

As a result, I went for a walk along the property, finding a very secluded place where no one could find me. At least, that was what I had thought. I didn’t need any of my brothers or cousins worried about me along with Catarina. I needed them to all focus on finding her, and if they saw what I felt was coming, they would be all over me.

I couldn’t bottle it up any more. I had to let it go.

Finding a patch of grass under a tree, I let every worry, fear, hurt … every emotion that wanted to come out rip from my body. I curled my legs up, wrapping my arms around my cocked knees, and ducked my head down as my body shook with the tremors that were eating me.

“Kiera,” was said in a low, deep voice.

I jumped, looking up, my heart about to beat out of my chest. Rex was there, squatting down next to me. I had no idea how he had gotten there so damn quietly. I never heard a sound, my sobs probably muffling it.

He said nothing to me. He simply reached out, placing his hands under my armpits and lifting me from the ground. Then he placed me in his arms where I let go even more. Rex had something that made me feel safe, made me feel like I didn’t have to be strong all the time. I could allow him to take that pain, and he wouldn’t turn it back on me. It was probably stupid of me, but it was there.

Over the last few days, Rex became a fixture in our lives, attached to Catarina as her guard. I caught him on more than one occasion looking my way, caught the small smirks across his lip when he thought no one was looking. I was also there when he went off halfcocked because he was stun-gunned, allowing Catarina to be taken. He scared the ever-loving shit out of me yet intrigued me at the same time.

I shoved my face in my hands, not wanting him to see the black runs that were all over me. I needed to get away from him and pull myself together, especially if anyone else came out here. .

I tried to step back, but his arm cinched around my waist, halting me, and I removed my hands to look back up at him. The fire breathing from his eyes caused my heart to skip a beat. Through all the turmoil I was dealing with, I could feel his want for me or, dare I say, his need for me.

He tightened his grasp in my hair, tilting my head to the side. “He’s going to fucking pay for every one of those tears, too.”

I had no time to think of his words, because his rough, hard lips came down on mine, controlling, demanding. Lust and passion ripped through me as I met him at each turn. I gripped his shirt, pulling him closer to me, my body yearning to be closer to his hard, hot heat.

Every thought that had been like a tornado pounding through my head left. I only felt, and damn, did I love what I was feeling.

Neither of us wasted any time. It was like we could read each other instantly. We both needed to forget. We needed an escape, and we were going to give it to each other.

My back hit the tree as my hands roamed his hard body. Our breathing became so labored I thought we would both need to be resuscitated before things could go any further.

Rex broke the kiss, making me gasp as his eyes penetrated me down to my soul. “I need you,” he said. It was more of a plea that I didn’t understand coming from this tough, macho man, but if I could help him, I would.

I looked off to the right at the small guest house that barely got used. “There.” My words came out breathier than I anticipated. However, he had me in some kind of fog, and my body was calling the shots.

He lifted me into his arms, my arms wrapping around his neck as he kissed me the entire way to the small home.

“Locked,” he called out, breaking from me, and it took a moment for me to register.

“Pass code: 46525,” I told him, and he punched the numbers into the small box on the side of the door. The buttons beeped and the door flew open, slamming into the wall. Rex’s lips met mine again as I heard his boot slam the door shut and the inside lock click.

From that moment on, it was go, go, go. We didn’t take time to explore each other’s bodies. No, it was clothes flying, hands moving craziness.

His fingers hit my target immediately. There was no fumbling or trying to impress. No, Rex had a fluidity and command to him that told me this was going to be good. I didn’t have to worry about it like with other guys. Not with Rex.

I gasped as his fingers rolled my clit, his mouth sucking on my nipple with a slight nibble of his teeth. It was my turn to lace my fingers through this jet black locks and hold on for dear life. The intensity was building inside me like a ticking time bomb about to combust.

I pulled harder on his hair as the waves were right there, ready to take me over. Then he stopped.

“Don’t stop!” I screeched, making him chuckle—full out, deep, sinister, and sexy chuckle. The sound faded away my anger, only rolling my want for him deeper.

“You’re coming on my cock first,” he grumbled.

I pushed myself down onto the bed, giving myself the smallest opportunity to take him in. Dressed, he was hot. Naked, he was something the gods would sing about it. He had to work out; there was no question about it. A man didn’t get muscles that defined—including a pack of abs I could do laundry on—by sitting around, watching movies. My eyes went lower, marveling at his cock. It was thick, well veined, and pointed straight up. It was begging for my touch.

I reached down, gripping his length. I loved hearing his groan in my ear. I had watched enough porn in my day to know men liked it rough, and lucky for Rex, I was good at it.

I fisted and pumped hard, his grip on me tightening as he sucked in a breath. Damn, I loved that I could get to him.

He stood abruptly, and I lost my handle on him. . What the hell?

I sat up as he rummaged through the pockets of his jeans and pulled out a condom, ripping it open and sheathing himself with it. Then his eyes turned feral as he approached me, and a small sliver of fear traced up my spine. A part of me wanted to edge up from the bed, but I stayed where I was, somehow feeling he wouldn’t hurt me, at least in a bad way.

He knew how wet I was for him from his touch prior, so he didn’t make me wait any longer. He plowed into me hard, so hard his cock opened parts inside of me that had never been before. The slight pain only drove me to give it harder.

I reached out to his ass, gripping it with my nails as he plundered in and out of my heat, driving me to the brink then slowing down so I had to wait.

Over and over again.

His thrusts became more demanding and intense, and I detonated. The world around me stopped, and I couldn’t breathe, lost in Rex.

.

His groan was the only indication of his release, and I thought he was done with me, but I was wrong.

That night was the most intense experience of my life, but when I had awakened the next morning, everything had changed. Catarina had been found, and Rex was gone.

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