CHAPTER TWELVE

REAPER

I wake up with the girl who hates me wrapped around me, like she never wants to let me go. The chain from her arm digs into my side, but it’s worth every ounce of pain, as I stare at her beautiful face, asleep and peaceful. If she could see herself now, she’d be so pissed at herself. I want to fuck her again and I would, asleep or not, but I have to see my brother. Bones was already agitated when I spoke with him on the phone. I could hear it, but now that he probably knows I killed the Abruzzo family’s pride and joy, he’s going to be downright pissed off. I can already hear him bitching at me.

Reaper, why are you always making messes I have to clean up?

Bella moans in her sleep, and any control I had snaps like a fine thread. Gently, I roll her to her back and climb over her. After nudging her thighs apart, I sink inside her, holding back my grunt so I don’t wake her up. I don’t know if all women feel like this, since I’ve never fucked anybody other than her, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to how she feels on the inside.

I rock into her, and she moans in her sleep for me again. Without taking my eyes from her, I pick up my pace to get myself off. Her pussy squeezes my dick as she moves her arm and pinches her nipple as she cries out in orgasm. Fucking beautiful. Her eyes pop open, and the look of pure pleasure is replaced with one of anger, which is just as stunning.

“Look at you, living dead girl. Your pussy loves this dick, even when you’re not awake.”

“Have you no boundaries, Nico?”

Changing my angle slightly, I fuck her harder, hitting her clit with my pelvis on every thrust, and I nearly laugh at her needy little whimpers. She wants to hate this so much, but she doesn’t. I press my body against hers, but not putting my weight on her, and kiss and bite her neck.

“You were wrapped around me like the needy little slut you are. I had to have you before I left.”

Every time I bite her neck, she whimpers, but then it turns to a moan when I lick the pain away. I tug on her ear gently, as I pull out and push back inside her pussy. I speak low, directly into her ear.

“Everything does not need to be a fight, Bella. We both know I make you feel good. You don’t have to love me, or even like me, for me to make you come.”

She sobs underneath me, and her chest shakes against mine, and it should make me stop, but it doesn’t.

“I didn’t want any of this. You think you’re entitled to sex without consent, and even to take someone’s life away. You’re not. This is wrong. And I’ll never forgive you for doing this to me.”

Supporting myself with my hand on the mattress beside her head, I stare into her teary eyes.

“I know I’m the villain in your story. I’m a monster, the bad guy. Probably the worst man you ever met. But I don’t care. I couldn’t not fuck you, even when you begged me not to touch you. Now that I’ve had you, I’ll never get enough.”

“You make me sick.”

I smirk at her.

“And you make me hard, baby. So fucking hard.”

Leaning my head down, I press my lips to hers, and she bites my bottom lip. I groan in pleasure, not pain, which I’m sure wasn’t her goal, as I force my tongue into her mouth while I fuck her. Bella reaches up and smacks the side of my head with the chain, but I don’t care. When she runs her fingers into my hair and pulls the strands, while kissing me back angrily, it’s all worth it. This woman is everything I want her to be. The fight in her is intoxicating. Even the way she fights for control with our kiss .

Sliding my hand into her hair, I pull as hard as she pulls mine, as I speed up my thrusts, fucking her like I hate her as much as she hates me. I don’t hate her. How can you possibly dislike something so beautiful? Something that feels like this? Impossible.

I pull back from our kiss, we’re both breathing heavily, and that same beautiful glare remains focused on me.

“Good girl. Hate me while you come all over my cock.”

She’s fighting so hard to not orgasm, but I know the struggle is over, when her pussy clenches down on my length like it never wants to let me go. I pinch her nipple, and she cries out as she loses the battle, and gives in to me, pulling my orgasm from me instantly. I fill her with my cum and she nearly chants, “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

I chuckle, because it’s herself she hates most.

Kissing her neck, I groan just below her ear.

“I have to go see my brother. I’ll be back.”

Climbing off her, I stare at her for a long moment, simply enjoying the view.

“Maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll kill you.”

I start getting dressed as I laugh at her. Bones will be pissed, but he’s still my brother. Unfortunately for her, he would never take out one of his own family. Knock me on my ass? Maybe. Probably, but he’d never end my life.

“Are you really just going to leave me naked all the time?”

I nod slowly, as I pocket my knife, so I don’t come back to any unpleasant surprises, like my own fucking knife in my back.

“I do prefer you that way, baby, but if you could learn to behave, I wouldn’t feel the need to keep you naked and chained up. Something for you to think about. In fact, if I could trust you to not pull stupid shit, we wouldn’t have to be inside all the time.”

Leaning over her, I kiss her quickly before turning and leaving her, to go deal with my annoying brother.

“What the fuck were you thinking?” Bones asks, with his gaze narrowed at me.

I shrug.

“I guess I wasn’t.”

Bones sits behind his dark-colored desk, looking like he wants to strangle me, as I sit on the other side fucking with the Newton’s Cradle in front of me. I hit one ball against the other, like I don’t have a care in the world, and it only pisses him off more.

“Goddamn it, Nico. You started a mafia war over a parking spot. What the fuck is wrong with you?”

I sigh audibly, because it only took five seconds of his barrage before I was done and checked out of the conversation. I can count on one hand the number of times any of my brothers have called me Nico. That’s how I know exactly how furious he is, but I don’t really care. He will get over it. Eventually.

“I was upset, alright? And it was my parking spot. He knew that, and parked there anyway. I’m not going to roll over and play dead, because you have a wife and kid on the way.”

He rubs his temples and takes a deep breath.

“What were you so upset about?”

I laugh uncomfortably.

“Living dead girl.”

Bones arches an eyebrow.

“I assume she’s dead now?”

Shaking my head, I can’t help the grin that overtakes my face.

“No. I was going to, but I fucked her instead. She’s mine now.”

“Let me get this straight. You kidnap her, try to kill her, then she gets away, and you find her and kidnap her again, and now she’s yours? Is she insane? ”

Using my forearm, I hit the stupid balls on his desk, sending it crashing to the floor.

“Say what you want about me, but don’t talk bad about Bella. She’s as off limits as Athena is.”

“Bella,” he says quietly.

“She is not insane, and she’s not quite on board yet, but she will be. Don’t act like you’re better than me, Bones. We all know what you did to Athena before. For fuck’s sake, you forced her to marry you. I’m not doing that.”

He holds his hands up.

“Look, I made mistakes. There are things I wish I could undo, but I can’t. That was before I had all the information. You could learn from my mistakes, but I know you won’t, so I don’t know why I bother wasting my breath.”

Finally, something we agree on.

“I’m sorry for causing you trouble with the Abruzzos. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

He glares at me.

“There’s one thing.”

I cock an eyebrow, waiting for him to explain what he’s talking about.

“It’s time you come to work for the family. You have,” he waves his hand in the air, “ gifts, and you could use something to focus on.”

“Dad kicked me out a long time ago.”

He chuckles softly.

“With good reason, Reaper. Still, I think we can harness that darkness within you, to serve our needs.”

“Can I think about it?”

This time his laughter comes out loud, obnoxious, and annoying as hell.

“It’s not an offer. It’s a demand.”

I rise out of my seat and say, “Fuck this. ”

“Nico, you did this. You started a war, and it will not be long until they retaliate. You put your family in danger, and now it’s only right that you help clean up the mess.”

I know he’s right, but I walk out anyway, because I’m pissed at the situation. My brother knows me well, so he doesn’t try to stop me. Once I clear my head, I can figure out how to handle things. Until then, all I’ve got is this fucking tingling in my neck.