Coerced Wife: A Dark Mafia Romance (New York Underworld Book 2) by Charmaine Pauls

Author:Charmaine Pauls [Pauls, Charmaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

FIFTEEN

Anya

Saverio spoons me from behind in his bed with one hand resting on my belly and his forearm serving as a cushion for my head. We’re both breathing hard, each of us coming down from an intense climax. What was supposed to be an afternoon nap turned into a marathon sex session. He’s still hard inside me, but I don’t have the energy to go for round four.

“Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?” he asks, kissing my shoulder.

“Wait until I’m nine months and I can’t see my toes any longer.”

He brushes his lips over the arch of my neck. “You’ll be even more beautiful then.”

“My stomach will get in the way when we have sex. We’ll be forced to do it like this all the time.”

“I’ll want you even more,” he says in a husky voice. “Trust me, treasure, I’ll be inside you at every chance I get.”

That makes me smile.

I glance at my phone on the nightstand to check the hour. It’s four o’clock, time to get ready. Instead, I close my eyes and enjoy the warmth of Saverio’s body and the comfortable cocoon of his arms. I know why he’s been extra attentive today. In less than two hours, we’re having our engagement party at After Dark. The whole family will be there to witness him put a ring on my finger.

“Come on,” he says with a hint of regret in his tone before kissing my temple. “We can’t be late.”

I pinch my eyes closed harder until I see red dots behind my eyelids, preparing myself for the inevitable, but when he pulls out, I still feel empty. I still don’t want to go to the party. I always thought when I got engaged it would be private and intimate, not a business transaction we announce to a group of people who either hate me or want me dead.

The bed dips, and then Saverio’s weight is gone.

“Are you sure about Livy and Tersia?” he asks.

“Yes.” I turn on my back to face him where he stands naked next to the bed, his muscles hard and unyielding while I’m getting bigger and softer.

It’s so unfair—not only his physical perfection but also this party and the whole damn situation.

He looks down at me with a wary light in those otherworldly, luminescent eyes. “You can do with a friend or two tonight.”

I stretch and fold my arms above my head. “It’s safer if they don’t get involved in that part of my life.”

He studies me for a moment before saying, “Livy knows.”

“Livy is both worldly and naïve. I prefer to let her stay naïve.”

“She’s not as naïve as you think.”

“She hasn’t mentioned anything.”

“She’s too clever.”

“She thinks you’re an accomplished businessman.”

He grins. “I am.”

I make a face. “You know what I mean.”

“You can give Tersia more credit too. Richard isn’t stupid. If she didn’t catch on, he would’ve enlightened her by now.”

“You can’t be so sure. You keep a low profile.”

“Why do you say that?”

“I did a search on you after that first day.

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