Oath of Obedience: A Dark Mafia Romance (Deviant Doms) by Jane Henry

Author:Jane Henry [Henry, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

“For women are as roses, whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.” ~Twelfth Night, Shakespeare

Orlando

She sleeps beside me like a little angel with her hands tucked under her chin. Her soft little whiffling sighs make my heart swell. I’ve never felt this way about a woman.

I ease myself out of bed and tuck the blanket up around her shoulders. She sighs and rolls over onto her stomach.

I revel in the way she submitted to me, the wonder in her eyes when I brought out the vulnerable part of her. I’m honored that she’s revealed parts of herself to me I’d be willing to bet she’s never shown anyone before.

Raised in a mafia family, she’s known since infancy that she’d never wed for love, that she was nothing more than a pawn her father would use for his ultimate endgame. In the end, he saved his own ass with his daughter. It’s not uncommon.

Doesn’t make it easy or right, but none of this is. And a part of me wonders if maybe I shouldn’t even hope for a glimpse of something good in this.

But Romeo… Romeo found love. And there’s hope for the rest of us.

I pour myself a shot of whiskey and stare out the window into the gloomy darkness. Moonlight glints on the water behind The Castle. It ripples with a gust of wind, like folds of silk, smooth and calming. I squint ahead of me and tilt my head to the side. Is that a ship coming into harbor? So late? But we have men that man the border and harbors, contacts with law enforcement, and a dirty cop that’d give his left nut for a seat at our table. This isn’t my job. It isn’t my watch.

So I turn my back to the ocean and stare at my bride.

I wonder when she’ll have my child. I wonder if I’ve impregnated her yet. A part of me hopes we’ll have to try a little longer.

I only just got out of the big house. I only just met Elise and have barely begun to scratch the surface on what it will take to get to know her. We’re so new.

A buzz sounds near her side of the bed, and I wonder what it is. She looked that way earlier today when I went to restrain her, but I didn’t want to investigate. Now, however, I’m curious.

I walk to the side of the bed, softly so I don’t wake her, and go to open the drawer. But when I reach for the handle to gently ease it open, she stirs on the bed.

“It’s so cold in here without you,” she whispers without opening her eyes. “I need my hot water bottle back in bed.”

I bend down and brush a stray piece of hair behind her ear. “You want to cuddle?”

She snorts. “You say it like it’s a bad word. I’m not a cuddler. I just need your big, manly body to warm me up.”

I’ve been hard on her, and she’s taken it.

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