Beauty and the Silver Fox: Age Gap, Older Man Younger Woman Romance by Lily Lane

Author:Lily Lane [Lane, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-22T18:30:00+00:00

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We do nothing but sleep and trade kisses, that night and the three nights that follow. I should be relieved, but I still find myself unable to relax, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Perhaps he just wants company, I tell myself when I wake each morning with his warm arms encircling me, but the lust in his eyes says otherwise.

Where I’m concerned, nightmares are nothing new. I’ve always had them, and they’ve gotten worse since I left home at eighteen, as though the bad dreams are my brain’s way of keeping my body on high alert while sleeping in strange places. It’s no surprise when I begin to have them here.

Ten days into my captivity, I sit up in the middle of the night, one hand clutching my aching chest. The space beneath the sheets feels desert-hot; I kick them aside, forgetting entirely that Massimo is beside me until my bare toes knock into his muscular thigh. He wakes immediately, eyes jumping to me, first with irritation and then with concern. I must look terrible. I can taste the salt of my sweat and tears. My fists are clenched so tightly that it hurts to uncurl them.

“Sorry I woke you,” I say quickly.

“Nightmare?” he asks.

I nod jerkily, and he makes a small, wordless noise in consideration, or perhaps, commiseration. I realize for the first time that I have no idea what his life was like before he was a king with his own castle; surely, happy childhoods don’t make mafia bosses. Massimo might know a thing or two about bad dreams. For a moment, I think about confiding in him, but I don’t want to give him any further ammo to be used against me.

“Come here,” he says, and although I try to protest, I find myself pulled back against him, cradled against his firm, broad chest. His hand strokes softly through my hair—it’s the same hand that I’ve felt wrapped with threatening tightness around my slender throat.

The worst things, I realized long ago, sometimes feel the best.

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