5. Tony

5

TONY

I squeezed Elio's hips so tight I knew the imprint of my fingers would still be there tomorrow. I would regret using my arm so much later, but for now I'd ceased to feel pain. I needed a good hold on him as our sweat-slick bodies slid together. Elio pushed back, meeting every one of my rough strokes.

Fucking him was even better than I remembered. His ass fit my cock like a glove, and going bare inside him was heaven—the heat, the slick walls that squeezed my cock so hard it hurt until I'd loosened him up with long, deep thrusts.

"Tony. Need you. Need this."

"I know, baby. Can you take it harder?"

"Yes. I can take anything you want to give me."

"Fuck. Don't say things like that."

He laughed, and I drove into him so hard I pushed him flat against the tree.

"More," he demanded.

"Fuck, yes." I totally let myself go. It was reckless. Anyone could walk up. Any number of animals could come across us, but I didn't stop. I couldn't.

"Come for me, baby," I said as I gripped his cock and worked him.

Seconds later, his ass squeezed me hard enough to make me gasp as his cum shot over my hand. The sensation and the needy noises he made were enough to force me over the edge. I drove in one last time and filled his ass again and again with my seed.

Elio sagged against the tree, and I kissed the back of his neck. "Are you okay?"

"I have no idea. Am I even alive? Are we in heaven?"

I smiled against his warm skin. "Maybe."

"That was…."

"I know. And as soon as I deal with Vinnie, I'm going to take you to my apartment and do it again and again."

"Fuck. I'm not sure I'll survive."

"I'll bring you back to life."

Elio leaned back into me. "What is happening here?"

No way could I handle a deep discussion now. "I'm taking you to meet my boss."

"You know that's not what I mean, but that's a terrible idea. This is all a terrible idea."

"I don't have a choice."

"You do, but you're too stubborn to admit it."

"No, I need you too much."

"Fuck, Tony." He turned around in my arms. When his eyes met mine, I swear my heart stopped for a moment.

"You're telling me you want to walk away?"

He looked down at himself, his chest splattered with cum and his pants around one ankle. "Not like this."

I chuckled. "No way in hell would I let anyone else see you like this."

"What if I wanted them to?"

I seized his hips and yanked him against me. "You don't."

"How do you know?"

"Because you're mine."

"Tony."

I didn't like the annoyance in his voice. "Don't do this."

"I don't belong to you just like I don't belong to my father. I'm my own person."

"Then what the fuck were you doing creeping around that bastard's house?"

"I needed the things he'd taken from me."

"What could be that important? He hurt you. You know he'd hurt you again."

"But now he's dead."

I stroked his jaw. "Elio, what did he take that mattered so much?"

He looked away. "Let's get dressed. We shouldn't be out here like this."

I stepped back. I'd ask him again later. I couldn't delay going to Vinnie's any longer. The more I made him wait, the angrier he'd get.

"Are you trying to start a fucking war bringing Giacomo's son here?" Vinnie asked. As if that wasn't bad enough, I'd gotten him out of bed in the middle of the night to reveal my latest sin.

I glanced at Elio. He was trying to tell me something with his eyes, probably I told you so . "No, sir. I didn't know who he was."

"That's your own fucking fault. I ought to hand you over to Lucien and let him?—"

"No, sir. I'll fix this." Lucien was the scary-as-fuck head of the Marchesi family. Ultimately, we worked for them.

"You won't do a fucking thing until I give you orders, then you'll obey them to the letter, or you won't be around long enough to fuck up anything else." I wanted to argue, but I kept my mouth shut while Vinnie paced his living room for several moments. "Right now, the best thing for you to do is go home. I'll send someone to see to your arm." He gestured toward my makeshift bandage.

I nodded. Giving Vinnie time to cool off wasn't a bad idea. I took Elio's arm.

"No, he stays. I need to talk to him."

"Elio is with me."

"You really want to die today, don't you?"

I refused to let him see how scared I was. "I promised him protection. I won't go back on that promise."

"You don't make the rules here, I do, and you better remember that if you aren't choosing this as your death day."

I was in danger, but I wouldn't leave Elio. Vinnie's bark was worse than his bite when it came to family. "I won't say anything while you talk to Elio, and I'll take him home with me and keep him safe."

Vinnie's glare should have set me on fire. "So I'm supposed to trust you to keep him secure and to fight off anyone who comes for him?"

"Yes, sir."

"You're going to be the one thing standing between me and a war that will drag in the Marchesis. You do realize Lucien will kill us all for this, right?"

I didn't want to think about that confrontation anymore than I wanted to think about losing Elio now that I'd found him again.

Elio took a step forward. "I could just disappear."

"No!" Vinnie and I shouted at the same time.

He tilted his head and frowned at Vinnie. "So, which is it? Am I an asset or a liability?"

Vinnie snarled. "You're a man who needs to learn to keep his mouth shut."

"Take it easy on him, Vinnie. He's been through a lot today." Until he spoke, I'd barely registered Vinnie's boyfriend, Tom, who'd been hanging back in the kitchen.

Vinnie turned to him, scowling. "Don't."

Tom held up a hand and gave him an icy look.

Vinnie's anger seemed to deflate. "Fine." He turned back to Elio. "Your value to us remains to be seen. For right now, you're to do as Tony says if you want to be in good shape for a reunion with your family."

Elio didn't back down. I'd never seen this side of him, but I liked it. "I don't want to be reunited with them."

"He's staying with me," I said.

Vinnie slammed a hand down on the counter. "I give the orders here."

I had to keep pushing. "His family doesn't value him. We could do them a favor and take him off their hands."

"No way in hell are they going to allow that without promises being made that Lucien would never agree to."

"I'm not expecting we'd make a fucking alliance with them. I want to keep him."

"Finders keepers?"

I looked down, realizing how stupid that sounded. "Something like that."

"Try suggesting that. After they blow your head off, I'll have less to worry about."

"Just let me go," Elio said. "Then neither of you need to worry about it."

"No." Again Vinnie and I spoke at the same time.