by Eden Rose
We kept walking, but after what seemed like an hour of silence, he stopped walking and I faced him. "My family has been indicted for Millstone's murder."
I stopped and dropped my hands to my side and felt like I couldn't breathe. As I tried to walk closer to him, he put his hand up and stopped me. I felt heavy. It is almost as if I needed to touch him in order to breathe.
"If you are too close to me I won't be able to tell you what happened." I nodded and stayed where I was even though I felt like a part of me was dying. "Someone called the police that night because they heard you screaming. Of course, they didn't come until after we left." Vincent spoke with conviction and disgust. "Now, the police have gone to my house and spoke with John and Sal. Those two are the boss and the under boss right now. That it why Ronnie, Johnny and Vinny are here so we could talk strategy."
Guilt raked through my body. This is all my fault. Everything that is happening, is because of me. Even though I didn't pull the trigger, a man died and its all my fault."But none of you did anything wrong! It was my ex-husband and his friends that were trying to rape and kill me!" I must have been yelling because a few people stopped and looked at me.
He pulled me between two streets so that we have some privacy. Well as much privacy as we could have considering where we are. "There is more..." By that pause, my heart dropped. I couldn't stand it if he were to throw me away. Again. "I knew you were with Joel. Well, I knew that you were separated at the time we met."
Say whaaat? Clearly his accent made me misunderstand him. Vincent couldn't possibly mean what he said. "What are you saying? Did you take me home to make him angry?" I sat down on a bench that lined the streets and kicked on and off my flip flops as I was so nervous.
He took a seat next to me and we both looked forwards. "No, I didn't. I knew who you were from your business. The truth is, that from the moment I seen you selling a friend of mine's apartment, I fell in love with you. You exhibited so much compassion and enthusiasm that I needed you. When I asked my friend what your name was, he told me who you were and that you were married. However, after further investigating, Adamo told me that you were getting divorced. Then I found out from my friend who did some research on you, you remember the one you sold an apartment to in Vinny's building? He was the one to tell me that you were with Joel. I have been dying to tell you that I have known you for so long but I couldn't." He took a breath and tried to touch my arm but didn't. I couldn't imagine him knowing me for over a year. This is insane. "My worker at the bar told me you were there so I had to be there and hopefully got the chance to speak to you." He looked away from me and then continued even though he seemed upset. "My family bought your company so I could bump into you. I feel like such a fucking stalker. Didn't you ever see me?"
I shook my head and looked at him. The realization clicked in. I captivated the heart of a mafia enforcer. This man wants me. "I never seen you. I wish I would have."
"I didn't take you home to piss Joel off. I took you home because I have been dying to touch you. Once you were in front of me, I had to fight the urge to not reach out and scoop you up. Savannah, are you mad?"
I should be. Really, I should be furious. However, I wasn't. "No, I am not."
He seems to be relieved. "You aren't going to run away screaming, right?"
"No," I reached out my arm and shimmied my bracelet in the light of the sidewalks. "Do you want to move in with me?" I asked him because I knew now that he loved me. This man, this powerful man wants me. "I mean, do you want to move into my apartment with me and make it ours?"
Vincent's eyes looked dark and steamy as he looked at me. His eyes traveled from my eyes to my mouth and back again. "Of course I do. Whatever you want, baby doll." I watched as he scanned the area around us.
As I puckered my lips and pulled his elbow to get him to look at me, he kissed me so sweetly that it knocked my breath out. "What are you going to do with your house?" I asked as I pulled his arm to put it around me.
"The guys and I can use it as a hang out house." He smiled down at me and when I smiled back, I felt the bruise on my cheek throb.
"What are you going to do about this indictment?" I whispered at him because I was hoping he wouldn't hear me. If he didn't hear me and didn't answer... that must mean this isn't happening. Right?
Leave me alone. Denial and ignorance are underrated.
Luckily, he is game for my idea. "Don't worry about it. Let's continue to walk," Vincent stood up and took me with him. As we walked down the street, we windowed shopped. Super fun.
As we passed a jewelry shop, I walked to the window and Vincent followed me. "These are so pretty," I replied as I looked at a display of argyle diamond rings. "Have you ever seen this color in a diamond?" I asked as I looked up at him. For some reason I sometimes forget how much taller he is than me.
"Yes, I have." He leaned into my hair and whispered: "None of them compare to your beauty."
Even though it was so corny, I loved to hear that especially after getting my face smashed up. "Thank you, baby." I put my hand on his chin and pushed it down so he would kiss me. When his lips touched mine, the after shock still knocks my breath out. "I wish we didn't have to go back to New York. Maybe I could get a job here and so could you... well... find a job?" I elbowed his ribs as I am teasing him for his lifestyle.
I sunk into the cubby hole of his arm and chest while wrapping my arm around his lower back and he wrapped his arm around my shoulders. I loved how normal this feels and the happiness we can share. "I would if you did." We continued to walk about a block just talking about random people as we walked past them. "I am sorry."
"For what?" As I was asking, I rolled my eyes. I don't want to relive those weeks or the other night all of the time.
His phone rang and he looked down at it after breaking our connection. Vincent stuck his index finger in my face to answer it. I wanted to bite it. "Moretti... I guess... We are heading back now... No, I don't know when we are going back to Manhattan... Why does it matter?... You can give the detective my number and I will talk to them... No! I am not going to cower like a little bitch... I understand what you mean, John. However, he was trying to kill her... Who gives a fuck?... Okay, fine. I will talk to the guys." He hung up and then dialed another call, I stood there patting my foot on the sidewalk. Damn his work! This is supposed to be our night. "Rossi... Meet me at the hotel's bar. Bring the others... Yes, she is right here... Fine, I will bring Savannah too... No! I don't want her to do that." He hung up and looked down at me as I rolled my eyes and gave him an aggravated look. "I am sorry about how I reacted when you were talking to Joel."
I reached out and wrapped my arms around his waist and placed my head on his chest. "Don't worry about it."
Vincent reached down and tugged my chin up so it was resting directly on his breast plate. "I just get so jealous that he got to touch you. To live with you. To have you love him. To be called your husband makes me so insanely jealous. I want more than anything to be all of those to you." We stood still in front of our hotel and he hugged me back. "I won't change the way I feel about it. I won't change how protective I am over you." His accent was so thick as he spoke and touched my nose with his. So hot.
"I don't want you to change. I like you just the way that you are." I breathed in his scent and squeezed him tighter. "Please, don't change." Our faces are touching and we are nose to nose while I flutter my eyelashes against his cheeks. I like this possessive side of him. The sick and twisted side of me is turned on big time by it.
He whispered in my ear, "I would have loved to be him. To love you, to come home to you. To make love to you."
I closed my eyes and let the words slide through my ears straight to my heart. "All of that sounds like a dream."
I nuzzled my face into his chest. "It doesn't have to be a dream." I'm not sure how long we were standing like that. Could have been hours or minutes. When Vincent broke the silence, I was startled. "Come on, we have to go into the hotel."
We walked through the doors of the hotel with our arms around each other.
He led us into the hotel bar and walked us over to the table full of our friends.
Annabeth stood up and hugged me, I hugged her back and said hi to everyone.
"So, what were you guys up to?" Bethany winks at me.
I smiled at Vincent and slid my arm around his waist as we sat down. "Working some things out."
"So! Everyone! We have an announcement!" Anne yelled after Vincent and I ordered our drink. She smiled at Ronnie and giggled. If she is pregnant, I will kill her! "We are renewing our vows this upcoming weekend!"
We all congratulated them and Vincent leaned over and kissed my cheek. Man, I didn't realize what I was missing until that moment. I missed friends and being this close to Vincent. Everyone at this table has come to mean so much to me and I missed being a normal adult.
Anne directed her attention to me and winked at me. "Vans, I want you to be my maid of honor. Please?"
I squealed like a school girl. She has to be kidding, right? Duh. "Of course! Where else would I be? Congrats you guys!" I stood up out of my seat and walked over to Anne and gave her a hug. "I am so happy for you!" I kissed her on her cheek and then walked over to Ronnie and hugged him. "Welcome to the crazy Thomas- Cavanough family!" I yelled at him as I took my seat back.
Bethany spoke and looked from Johnny to Vincent and then to me. "I don't think that will be your family name too much longer!" She was jabbed in the chest by Johnny and Vincent flipped her off. "What? You were all thinking it."
"Anyways," I looked at Bethany and gave her a look. "Where are you two youngsters tying the knot?"
"Actually, Moretti... Can we use your house in the Hamptons? Please?" Ronnie asked.
"Yeah, man! Of course." Vincent leaned closer to me and began to spin a chunk of my hair around his finger.
"Also, Moretti, you should be my best man. Vinny and Johnny, grooms men?"
"Yeah! Bachelor party!" Vinny yelled while taking a drink of his beer.
"Shut up!" Annabeth playfully slapped his arm.
"Anyways, gentlemen. We have business to attend to," Johnny says as he stands up and kisses Bethany on her cheek.
Vinny kissed Annabeth on her lips and she smacked his ass as he walked away. "He is so sexy! We had some amazing bathroom sex."
Simultaneously, we all screamed: "Gross!"
"I will be back soon," Vincent whispers into my ear and his breath was so hot that it radiated through my whole body.
As I smiled at them all as they walked away, Anne turned to all of us as we moved to sit closer together. "Bethany and Annabeth, bridesmaids? I promise I won't have you wear some monstrosity!"
Bethany snorted and chugged her drink in one swallow. "The hell you would! I don't sell anything ugly! We will all meet at my store when we get back and pick something hot out!"
"Yes! That sounds fun!" Annabeth hoots as she gulped the rest of her glass of wine.
We all discussed themes and colors while drinking another bottle of wine.
After my second glass, I felt the chair next to me move, and someone sat down while grabbing my knee. With a nasty look, "Um, who do you think you are?" I demanded while I began to pushing his hand off of my knee.
"I am a man who finds you very attractive," this thirty something year old man with a beer gut tells me. I am not drunk enough for all of that.
"Come on, ladies. Let's go find our men!" I stood up grabbing my goblet and left the man to sit by himself.
All four of us were giggling and laughing about that guy as we walked through the hotel towards the cigar lounge where we all knew they were at. Cliché, I know. The mob meets in a cigar lounge. Original. I wonder if they even know how much they fit into that stereotype. I doubt it.
Annabeth was the one who barged in and announced, "There is too much sausage in here!" She ran over to Vinny and sat on his lap.
Anne and I held hands as we walked through the room until she dropped me and ran off to Ronnie. Bethany laughed as Johnny stood up and spun her around and then dipped her in a romantic gesture. When they kissed, it was tantalizing to feel their passion for each other. As I approached Vincent I straddled him and placed my arms around his neck.
"Hi," I said as I got settled. His smile broke into a seductive one and he winked at me. Vincent is so sexy. I licked my lips suggestively and then leaned forward to give him a quick lick up his nose.
"So, guys. I hear that Savannah fell in love with the argyle diamond on the main strip! Isn't it a beautiful ring?" Annabeth joked as she sat across Vinny's lap.
"Yes, she did! You should have seen her face as she looked at it!" Vincent said and tickled my thighs.
"I like pretty things!"
"As do I," he whispered in my ear as my face turned beat red.
"So what were you guys talking about?" Anne asked as she kissed Ronnie's cheek.
I ignored the answer and rubbed my hands up and down Vincent's chest while leaning into his ear. "How much longer do you think you will be?" I asked as I put my hands in his shirt to loosen it up. "I think I am ready to go to bed. Well, maybe not bed..."
His face turned so red it looked like it was going to catch on fire. "What ever are you implying?" He asked me as I ran my hand down to his belt buckle and grabbed it.
"You are a smart man." I started to undo his belt while he heard what I said. Once it was undone, I sat right on top of it.
"Damn, you two!" Johnny exclaimed while placing his hand over his forehead. "You sure know how to kill a buzz."
"Then don't look at us," Vincent replied as I dropped my hand lower and placed my other hand on the back of his head to tip it up so he could kiss me. "Maybe we should make this a private party. You guys can leave," he ordered while grabbing my ass and pushed me further up his lap. Involuntarily, I let out a groan when I felt his dick harden under me.
"Sick!" Annabeth says as she and everyone walks out of the room.
"See you at breakfast," Anne says to me.
After they left the room, I started to unbutton Vincent's shirt and kissed his chest with every button that opened. Every once in a while, I would change up the pace and give him a little lick. As he was obviously getting more excited, I scooched off of his lap and knelt in between his legs and started to open his fly.
"Do you want to take this upstairs?" He asked as I freed his dick. My answer to the question was continuing what I was doing in the first place. In a quick gulp, I swallowed his whole dick and moved my mouth up and down slowly and then faster. "Mm, baby."
"Mm..." I moaned as I changed my pace to just sucking on his tip. I didn't think it were possible when he got harder in my mouth, but he did. My eyes shot open as that happened and looked up at Vincent. "You look so hot, half dazed with pleasure and your dick in my mouth."
He smiled at me and met my gaze with a growl. "You should see yourself from my point of view! I love looking at your lips around my cock." As I laughed, I swallowed him whole again and then cranked him out slower. "Baby, I don't want this to end but I am worried that I won't be able to last much longer," he reached down and pushed my shoulders away from their resting place in his thighs. "Lay down on the floor with your legs open for me," I obliged and as I laid down, I looked up to him and seen his thinking face. "There has never been a prettier sight than this." Vincent jumped out of his chair and walked over to me. I looked up at him as he dropped to his knees right next to my body. "Are you turned on?" He asked as he rubbed my side and teased the swell of my breast.
"Do you have to ask?" I looked into his eyes and seen that they were laughing at. "I am so pleased that you find my frustration a turn on."
I will stab him with something sharp if he doesn't get the show on the road. Like in the eye or maybe his ear.
As he was laughing, Vincent got down on all fours and climbed over me. "Mm, baby. Are you sure you are ready?" Carefully, he took two thumbs and rubbed them over my aching nipples. They were so sensitive that i
f he kept it up, I would climax right here and now.
If he keeps up this game I will surely have a stroke. "You are a very intelligent man, I am sure you can figure it out." I pulled my hands above my head and linked my fingers together. It looks as if Vincent seen what I was doing and took the hint. He reached over me while adjusting his weight and grabbed my bunched hands. "Finally!" I squealed as he touched my sex with one hand and still held my hands together with the other. "Kiss me!"
"Aren't you bossy?" Even with his smart ass remark, he followed my demands and kissed me long and deeply. My whole body was on fire as his kiss spread through me. "Close your eyes, Savannah. If you open them, I won't touch you tonight."
"Geeze! Way to lock me into the agreement!" I closed my eyes and he climbed off of me. "Wait! Where are you going?" I demanded as he let my hands free. I so badly wanted to open my eyes and see where he was.
