Potent Desire: THE COMPLETE SERIES BOX SET by Wolf Teresa

Author:Wolf, Teresa [Wolf, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-24T18:30:00+00:00

6

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A blink of an eye is all it took to be standing beside the priest, preparing to give my life away to the Romani family. Where did the hours go? Night turned to day, and then I was picked up by The King’s men and brought to my wedding.

I spent the night alone in my apartment. Unable to sleep, my mind raced with thoughts of Isabella. It is impossible to pinpoint the emotions I have for her. Love? Lust? I can’t say. I have a desperate need to spend my days with her, yet there are no rumblings or stirrings of love in my heart. I want to take her, my hands between her thighs as they were in that changing room, but I know it won’t be fucking. It will be gentle, tender…Perhaps even love-making. The mismatched sensations of love and lust blend together, in a mess of confusion. Nausea fills my gut.

Have I become such a good lapdog that The King’s offer makes me want her? No question in what’s right or wrong, only mourning the hours Isabella isn’t by my side? Or is love such a foreign concept to me, that I’d not understand it even if I did feel it?

I grew up in a broken home. My father, a mafia boss, taught me how to hate and kill. He never once patted me on the shoulder or said good job, Son. Bruno Romani showed me more fatherly affection at that dinner table than my father had in all my years.

The wedding is held on the palace’s grounds; in their enormous backyard. The priest stands beneath an arch, wreathed in white roses, behind a wooden pulpit with his hands together in front of him. Three women stand opposite me; Isabella’s bridesmaids. Behind me, Dominic and two other Romanis wait.

The scorching mid-afternoon sun bakes me in my black tuxedo. I’ve spent the morning greeting notable members from the Slater, Harrison, Romani, and Braddock families. All have wished me well on this magnificent occasion. Even my father managed to bury the hatchet and greet me with a smile on his face.

Aaron is still sour. The bruise on his forehead is reason enough, I suppose.

It’s hard to place my emotion. I’m floating on a cloud, high above the sky and hidden somewhere in a dreamscape. Is it a dream? Is it a nightmare? Have I slipped the bounds of reality and transcended into absolute madness?

The sweet scent of newly budding flowers and lavender wafts over to us, carried by the wind. A small band off to one side plays Ave Maria on harp, acoustic bass, and guitar. It’s beautiful. It’s overwhelming.

Rows of chairs stretch out before me, full of silent faces. We’re all waiting. Soon, the music will shift, and Isabella will walk down the aisle, Bruno at her side.

“You ready for this, big boy?” Dominic asks in a hushed whisper.

“Ready as I can be,” I reply. I don’t turn to him, staying focused ahead.

“Well, let me just say, it’ll be an honor to serve by your side.

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