Chapter Fifteen

~ Nico ~

I flushed when I heard soft chuckles coming from my cell phone.

"Baby," Luca said, "we're mafia. Stealing is kind of our bread and butter."

"No, I get that," I said, "but this isn't my money. Why would it go to me? I wasn't even the one that went to prison. You did. Shouldn't the money go to you?"

Luca pressed a kiss to my forehead. "How about the money goes to both of us, huh?"

I nodded. That was a much better idea.

"What is this organization you mentioned, Vinnie?" Luca asked.

"Alejandro Díaz's husband Delancy runs an organization helping abuse victims escape their abusers, especially in situations where they have no other avenues of receiving help."

"God, I wished I'd known about that organization when my parents were keeping me a prisoner and refusing to feed me to punish me."

Luca's jaw clenched. "I knew your parents were starving you."

"It wasn't often and usually only for a couple of days, but—"

"But nothing, Nico," Luca snapped. "That's still abuse."

I ducked my head, staring down at my fingers as I twisted them together. It wasn't so much that Luca had spoken in a harsh tone. That didn't bother me. I knew he was upset, but I also knew that he would never hurt me.

It was the fact that I had accepted everything my parents had done to me over the years and never really considered it abuse until now.

I mean sure, I thought they had emotionally and mentally abused me when they took Luca away from me, but I'd never thought about the rest of the things they had done. They had never physically touched me until that last time so I never saw it that way.

I was an idiot.

"Nico, baby." Luca cupped my chin and lifted my head up. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you."

"It's okay," I said. "You weren't really snapping at me, but the situation."

"God, baby." Luca hugged me tight. "We need to toughen you up."

I didn't know why.

"I'm not sure if this is the right time to bring this up," King said, "but maybe we can talk with Petrov and Díaz and all of us agree to cancel any contracts Rossi might have with us and not allow him to do business in our territories. That would take some of his revenue away from him."

"Do you think Hu would agree to it?"

King snorted. "I don't think Hu would care."

"Hu?" Luca asked.

"Hu runs Staten Island," Vinnie explained. "He only meets with us at the annual conclave. He's not much for socializing."

"So, stay out of Staten Island?"

"That would be my suggestion," Vinnie replied.

"Okay, Vinnie, we'll make arrangements to come back to New York later this week," Luca said. "Can you call that detective and set something up?"

"Yeah," Vinnie replied. "I'll get in contact with him and get back to you about the time."

"I'd appreciate it," Luca replied.

"I'll see about canceling this contract and speaking with Díaz and Petrov about cancelling any contracts they might have with him," King said. "I'm sure they will agree, especially when we tell them what Nico's parents did to him."

"And Luca," Nico said. "What they did to him is far worse than what they did to me."

"What they did to me is not any worse than what they did to you, Nico," Luca said. "It was just a different kind of abuse."

I wasn't sure I agreed with that, but I wasn't going to argue about it right now. "Do you really think you can take down my parents?"

I wasn't so sure.

"We've taken down worse," King stated.

Vinnie snorted. "True."

"Okay, my husband is calling me so I need to go," King said. "I'll give you a call when I get everything done on my end."

"Thank you, King," Luca said.

"Yes, thank you, Mr. King," I added.

"Just King, Nico." King chuckled. "My queen would smack me upside the head if I made you call me mister."

Uh... I leaned closer to Luca to whisper in his ear, "I thought he was married to a man."

"He is, Nico."

"But he said..."

Luca chuckled. "You'd understand if you'd ever met Spencer. He's very...colorful."

Uh huh.

King hung up and we were left with just Vinnie.

"I need to get going, too. Nicky has plans with his friends and I've been ordered to make myself scarce."

Nicky had ordered his husband to make himself scarce? A mafia boss? Did things like that actually happen?

"I'll call you if I get any news," Vinnie said.

"I'll do the same," Luca stated.

Once Vinnie hung up and it was just me and Luca, he set his phone aside and wrapped his arms tightly around me. "Did you eat?"

I nodded and then remembered the leftovers. "I wasn't able to eat all of it so I put the leftovers in the fridge. I hope that was okay."

"Of course it was, Nico. But did you get enough to eat?"

I nodded again. "Your grandmother even gave me some cookies."

"Oh, yeah?" Luca started to smile. "Was it the really good ones with the extra chocolate chunks?"

"It was."

"Did you save me any?"

I tucked my lips in and shook my head.

"You didn't save your husband any? The man that loves and adores you?"

I could barely keep my lips together as laughter build up inside of me. When he raised an eyebrow at me, I couldn't stand it anymore and laughed. "They were really good, too."

"I'm a big bad mafia boss," Luca said. "What should I do to you?"

I wagged my eyebrows.

I had a few ideas.

"I don't suppose you could lock the door and find a bottle of lube, could you?"

Luca's eyes rounded for just a moment before he hurried to the door and turned the lock. When he came back to the desk, he pulled open one of the drawers and grabbed a bottle of lube.

I watched with hungry anticipation as Luca began unzipping his slacks. His muscled chest already had me drooling. I couldn't wait to see the rest of the impressive man.

My cock had become so hard I thought it might fracture if I touched it. Without taking my eyes off the visual feast before me, I unbuttoned my shirt, dropping it from my shoulders just about the same time that Luca's shirt hit the floor.

"You are so handsome, Luca," I said as I kicked off my shoes and wiggled out of my pants. Luca needed to know that. He was simply stunning.

One of Luca's brown eyebrows arched and a slow sensual grin lifted the corners of his lips. "You're not so bad yourself."

Once Luca was naked, I beckoned with my hand. Luca stepped over, his hands landing on my shoulders. There was a tingling in the pit of my stomach. I curled my arms around Luca's waist, pulling him closer. His hard erection pressed against my own. The friction was maddening. I would never get enough of feeling Luca's hard cock against my body.

"Want you," I whispered against delicious kiss-swollen lips.

"I see someone is hungry." Luca's tone was so damn deep and seductive that I groaned with hot, aching need.

"You have no idea." My skin was pulsing with desire, my body writhing against the larger man. I pulled back to see Luca's flushed cheeks, lust eating up his irises. Luca's aroused passion was making mine grow stronger.

Luca made a throaty sound as he picked me up by my ass cheeks and set me on the desk. His lips left behind a searing trail of kisses and licks along my skin. My legs began to shake as Luca moved lower and lower.

I jerked, my breath coming out in shallow gasps, my cock hard and erect. Luca licked around my navel, his tongue sensually dancing along the fine hairs that ran from my abdomen to my groin. I was going out of my mind and Luca was teasing me.

A cry left my lips when Luca placed his hands on the back of my thighs and raised my bottom, licking along the underside of my sac. I fisted my hands, my head lolling to the side. I could feel myself trembling and it was only the start of things.

I let Luca maneuver me, taking full advantage of my body. I quickly learned just how sensual a lover Luca could be.

Arousal ran over me in hot currents, heating me up to the point I thought I was going to melt. Luca took my erection into his mouth, savored it, tasted it, and brought me to the edge. I inhaled deeply, my fingers digging into Luca as the need to come clawed at me.

I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the desk as Luca's fingers slid down the crease in my ass, slid over my aching hole. Firm fingers slid down my inner thigh as the other hand moved to spread my cheeks once more.

This time Luca's fingers were wet when they circled my quivering opening. One lone finger slipped inside my body and I thought I was going to lose my mind.

Luca rose up, climbing back over me, his cock pressing between my ass cheeks. My head fell back when Luca's lubed fingers breached me. I bent my legs, spreading them wider as Luca stretched his body over mine.

When Luca's fingers slipped from my body, I almost whimpered in protest until I felt the blunt head of Luca's cock pressing into my ass. I expected Luca to ease in slowly as he always had in the past. Instead, Luca surged all the way in with one single thrust.

"Luca!" I cried out as I wrapped my legs around Luca's waist.

Having the man inside of me was like a carnal kiss. We were joined at the most intimate level. The bliss was so great, I never dreamed of asking Luca to slow down. If anything, I urged him on by letting out a groan of pleasure as Luca's cock brushed against my sweet spot.

"I love hearing my name on your lips." Luca nipped my shoulder, his tongue playing havoc with my nerve endings. His large hand was pressing into my back, the other curved around my hip.

Luca rotated his hips, pushing and pulling, shooting me closer to the edge, and then bringing me back. He almost had me pinned to the desk, enclosing me in pure muscle as he made slow, sweet love to me.

I surged forward, meeting Luca's thrusts, my fingers grabbing the man's shoulders and holding on. Luca pulled out almost all the way and then thrust deep. My legs inched higher and higher up Luca's back. I whimpered when Luca grabbed my ankles, pushing my legs past my head.

My head fell back against the wooden desk, my eyes rolling in my head. The sensations were clawing their way throughout my entire body and ensnaring me in a sensual hold as my body splintered into a thousand pieces of pleasure.

Luca growled, thrusting so hard that I could no longer keep up. I was lost in my climax, clinging to Luca with the last vestige of consciousness. Luca's moves were deep, fast, and had me arching my back as Luca came, his muscles shuddering under my hands before the man let out a rough shout.

"I love you, I love you, I love you," I whispered over and over again as I kissed Luca's eyes, his nose, his chin, and his lips, losing myself in the feelings of desire as we took pleasure in each other's body.

Luca rested his body on top of mine as he cupped my face between his hands and searched my face with his eyes.

The wide grin that began to spread Luca's lips was unexpected. "I love you, too." Luca sighed and lowered his head, but not before I saw a suspicious sheen in his own eyes.

If this was going to be my new life, I could get used to being the spouse of a mafia man.