Page 84 of The Gangster King

“Not fucking funny,” Braxton grumbles and I figure it’s to both me and his team.

Pocketing my weapon, I add, “If I find out you lied, your entire family is dead.”

“Well, that includes your sister...” Braxton says as two of my men appear, panting.

“Leo Baldoni left with her,” one of them tells me. I grind my teeth, fury like I’ve never felt runs through my veins. It burns.

It’s like acid filling my heart.

Marry me and be my wife.

If you want to marry me and spend your life with me, then you’ll set me free and propose like a real man, Dante Baldassare.

You want me to get down on my fucking knees, because I will.

No. Not here. Not while you have me locked up.

I didn’t have a gun to your head when your mouth was around my cock. Or when you had your fingers in your cunt.

I’ve always wanted you.

God, when she said that I’ve never wanted a woman so much in my life. I had to touch her. I had to find that wet, hot space at her core and feel her juices.

Tonight you will sleep in my bed. Not as my prisoner, but as the woman I love.

Then she ran from me.

She betrayed me.

I know I took away her freedom, but Adelina was never going to accept me any other way.

I’ve always wanted you.

The way her mouth wrapped around my cock; her eyes locked on mine.

I run a hand through my hair as my men and Braxton wait for my next move.

“Get the car,” I tell them, then glance at Braxton for a moment before walking away.

He knows what I want and how to reach me.

My priority has shifted. Getting Adelina back home and into my arms is all I can think of.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

ADELINA

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“How did this happen?” My father yells at me as he tugs his bow tie off and tosses it on his desk.

Leo sits on the sofa off to the side, and I stand like a naughty schoolgirl in the middle of the room.

“Answer the question!” he booms.

I shake.

I hate that I react like this around him.