She listened to his even breathing and relaxed slightly against him.
“Gabriel …”
“Sleep, Red. I don’t have the energy to fight now.”
“Did you hurt yourself?”
“Do you care?”
“Of course I do!”
You have a funny way of showing it then.” He caressed slowly up and down her naked back and sighed.
“You just make me so mad!”
“The feeling is mutual.”
“At least you don’t have to deal with …”
“Deal with what?”
Sienna bit her lip and knew if she said anymore he would know her feelings. Maybe, just maybe it is what he needed to hear though.
“Deal with what, Red?”
“Jessica Chastain.”
His chest heaved with the deep controlling breaths he took to keep his anger at bay.
“It is a subject that is becoming tedious. I am not going to belabor it any further. Why are you adamant to believe the worst of me?”
“It’s not … I saw your arms around her! I saw you leaning into her and kissing her and it was not a chaste kiss! What am I supposed to think? Especially after how we spent the night befo …”
“Sienna … sigh … she literally jumped on me and I was off balance. If all you saw was that, it meant you witnessed the first few seconds of the kiss. Had you continued looking you would have seen me push her away and telling her to leave, like I have done every single time she appeared on the scene the past weeks since she made that allegation.”
He leaned down and kissed her lightly on her brow.
“I am done talking about this, Sienna. I am not going to continue defending myself on something I have no guilt on. Now sleep, Baby, I am tired and weary of this topic.”
She turned her head and kissed him softly on his chest. He pulled his breath in sharply and his arm tightened around her body. The tempo at which he worked and the long days of the summit took their toll and Gabriel fell asleep almost immediately.
Gabriel woke up feeling relaxed and he stretched, only to stiffen realizing there was a weight holding him down. He remembered falling asleep with Sienna in his arms and she was still in his arms. She was draped half on top of him with her one leg pulled up and resting between his legs. His shaft slowly rose with each part of his body awakening to her heat around him. Her hair covered half of his stomach and her one hand was around his body and tugged in below his arm holding him tight.
She started waking and moaned as she did. She stretched like a kitten against him and he groaned as her leg pushed harder against his rising shaft. He could feel her heat and wetness against his thigh as she rubbed against him. He stroked down her back and caressed her butt cheeks before he pressed her harder against him.
“Hmmm … Gabriel?”
“Who else, Baby?”
“Hmmm … this is nice.”
“What?”
“Waking up in your arms.”
His breath caught at her confession and his heart swelled to twice its size. It was the first time she said something good about being in his bed. He tangled his hand in the satin soft tresses at the nape of her neck and pulled her head back. His head lowered and he kissed her deeply, demandingly. His tongue delved deeper and deeper as if he could become one with her just with the intimacy of his kiss.
She moaned into his mouth and moved her leg up and down against his now fully aroused shaft. She slowly traced the muscles on his side before she caressed over the ripples on his torso and trickled up his chest to stroke his flat nipples. His kiss intensified with her continued caresses and his hips ground against her caressing thigh.
Without breaking the kiss Sienna lifted on her one knee and slowly straddled him, taking his drawn in hiss from his mouth. She lowered her warm apex against his shaft and moved her wet, aroused sheath up and down the length of his shaft. Both their groans filled the room and Gabriel’s hands tightened around her hips, pressing her harder against him with each movement she made against his aching shaft.
She ended the kiss and trailed a line of open, warm kisses down his chin and neck to lick and suck his nipples, eliciting a long tortured groan from him. She sat up and her eyes were violet orbs of passion and need. She kept her eyes on his and lifted her hips slightly, allowing his rock hard shaft to rise up eagerly. She moved higher until she felt the blunt head of his shaft prodding at her wet and eager entrance.
Sienna watched the heat and desire darkening Gabriel’s eyes. Her breath caught as she lowered herself on him until only the tip of his shaft speared her channel. His breath hitched in his throat, his eyes never leaving hers.
“Gabriel … honey … I need you. May I please take you?”
“Good Lord, Red! You’re killing me! Yes!”
She lowered herself another inch and he flinched in need, his hands hard on her hips, forcing them not to yank her all the way onto his aching shaft.
“Always? I need you always, honey!”
He froze beneath her and her breath caught. Did she go too far? Did he lie to her yesterday?
“Are you sure, Sienna? Because if I give you always now, there is no going back! Not for either one of us!”
She bit her lip, her whole body trembling in need. Her eyes burnt into his, giving him all of her.
“Yes … I do!”
His hands tightened around her hips and he slowly pulled her down onto his shaft, deeper and deeper until he was deeper than he has ever been. When he settled deep into her womb he kept still, treasuring the essence of her, her beauty and the feeling of belonging. He knew at that moment he would never let her go. No matter what.
He stroked her nipples, very softly and over her stomach to caress her clit, watching her eyes glaze over.
“Take me, Baby. Take me now.”
She started moving, slowly at first and then faster and quicker as the strokes on her clit increased, fingers pinching her nipples. She mewled and threw her head back as the heat inside her slowly bubbled higher and higher until she felt as if she was burning up.
Sienna gasped for breath when Gabriel pushed his finger inside her body next to his shaft and groaned at the added tightness of it. Her eyes shot to his. He soothed her.
“Easy, Red … easy.”
She cried out when he reached up with his finger while pushing his shaft up inside her and tipped the tip forward and stroked the tangle of nerves deep inside her. She panicked at the intensiveness of the inferno that created inside her.
“Stop … ooohh … honey I can’t … it’s too much! Stop!”
“Easy Baby … just feel … let go, Red. Let go and come for me. Come with me, Baby!”
He pumped harder, she rode faster and his finger kept stroking and their bodies thrashed against each other, desperate for release from the terrifying pressure and heat.
Sienna pleaded with Gabriel to stop, to remove his finger, she felt as if she was going to explode, but he refused, wanting and needing her to explode the same time he did. When he felt the pressure gripping his sacks, tightening them and the first pulse of his orgasm tightening his shaft, he pressed harder inside her and she screamed. They climaxed together, so hard and so complete it felt as if they just fused together as one. The waves kept rushing through them and for a moment everything went black, and then stars exploded behind their eyes.
Sienna slumped down on top of Gabriel gasping for breath. Their climax still grasped them in its claws and Gabriel groaned at the strength of Sienna’s inner muscles contracting and milking his pulsing shaft inside her.
They did not move for a long while, just holding each other, treasuring the most amazing pleasure they just experienced.
A knock on the door interrupted their entrancement with each other and Sienna scrambled off Gabriel to yank the sheet over them. She stared at the door with eyes as wide as saucers. She forgot the house was full of people and she was sure her screams lifted the roof. Gabriel chuckled and rapped her on her nose.
He rose and picked up the towel he ripped from her the night before and wrapped it around his waist. He opened the door and Sienna heard his loud sigh.
“I should have known it would be you. Can’t a person just lie in in peace every now and then?”
“Stop your grumbling, Gabe! I can’t find Sienna anywhere. We have to start setting the tables. In case you forgot, the wedding is this morning, so you have to get up anyway. Did you at least prepare a nice ceremony?”
“What do you think?”
She smiled at her big brother. However much she craned her neck he was too large and she could not see past him into the room. Gabriel chuckled and shook his head.
“Are you looking for something, Sophia?”
“No … no, no. Just wondering when you’ll be up?”
“Well, seeing as you’ll probably park in front of the door if I don’t, I guess just about now. Is that good for you, nosy posy?”
She giggled at the nickname he gave her when they were little.
“Quite. Better see if you can find Sienna too. Can’t start the wedding without her, now can we?” She winked at him and sauntered away and Gabriel shut the door. Sienna groaned and hid her face in the pillows. Gabriel chuckled and slapped her sharply on her bum.
“You heard her, Red. Up you go. It is a big day today.”
She pulled the pillow from her face and he shook his head at her blushing face. Her voice was thin when she asked worriedly, “Do you think anyone heard me?”
He smiled and twitched her nipple that peeked out from the sheet. She slapped at his hand, frowning at him. His eyes lovingly caressed over the breast he fondled and kneaded. He seemed preoccupied all of a sudden.
“Don’t worry, Baby. These walls are thick. No one would …” he pulled the sheet all the way down baring the other breast and frowned, “have heard a thing.”
She sighed and pushed her breasts deeper into his hands now both covering them, his frown deeper. He pulled a deep breath and his eyes rose to her.
“Red … is there something you need to tell me?”
Sienna took a moment to pull her concentration from his fondling hands to his question and his searching eyes. Her breath caught in her throat. How could he possibly know?
She returned his searching gaze with one of her own. Her tongue swept over her suddenly dry lips.
“Red?”
“I …”
“Are you? My God Sienna, are we?”
There was excitement and eagerness in his voice and eyes and Sienna felt tears burn behind her eyes.
“Yes … I think so. I only … realized it yesterday afternoon when you said the only woman that could lay claim to having your baby in her belly was me. I did not even notice I missed my period until then.”
“How far?
“Gabriel, it is only a suspicion at this point. I need to do a test fir …”
“How far, Baby?”
“Nearly six weeks.”
His eyes burned into hers, his hands slowly covering her belly and he leaned down to kiss the quivering skin there.
“Don’t get too excited until we know for sure, honey.”
“I know. We are pregnant. I know every inch of your body as well as my own, Red. Your breasts are fuller, your hips a little more curvy. I don’t need a test or a doctor to confirm anything. I know it here.”
He pressed his hand against his heart and her eyes misted over when he pressed his other hand over hers.
“And here.”
He pulled her into his arms and just held her tenderly. His lips nibbling her neck.
“We’re getting married.”
Sienna stiffened and Gabriel immediately felt the anger bubble inside him.
“Are you ordering me to marry you, Gabriel?”
He looked into her eyes, his bright with anger.
“If you for one moment think I will let you go and allow my child to be born out of wedlock, you are sadly mistaken! We. Are. Getting. Married!”
Her mouth tightened and she pulled out of his arms, suddenly standing next to the bed, her hands on her hips. She glared at him.
“I told you, Gabriel. I will not be ordered around! Most definitely not to marry you of all things!”
She swung around and disappeared into the bathroom before he could get his heated body under control. The sight of her challenging him in her naked glory affected him to a fully aroused state. Then her words penetrated and shouted after her.
“We will be married, Sienna. Non mi rinnegherai. Make no mistake about that!”
Chapter Twenty
Sienna wore a tight fitting emerald green dress with a sophisticated high neckline. It had daring sheer cut outs from just above and between her breasts all the way to the back to curl around her sides and meet in the front. It seemed to hug and push her breasts up, making Gabriel’s mouth water. Swarovski crystals embellished the dress from the neckline down to the hemline creating an unbelievable shine that added allure to her shape with every step she took. It was a dress made to entice, to ensure the woman wearing it got noticed. When she turned around to respond to a question from Sophie, Gabriel’s jaw dropped. The dress revealed an open back that enhanced her smooth skin and perfectly shaped back.
Leonardo leaned over and pushed his jaw up, chuckling whilst his own eyes appreciated the beautiful woman in the dress made to torture men.
Gabriel growled at him and he glanced his way. He saw the possessive look in his eyes as he glared at him.
“Keep your eyes to yourself, Leo. I don’t want to have to dock you on Sienna’s Gramps wedding day.”
He however, could not pull his gaze from her. Her hair was taken up in a loose knot on top of her head with loose tendrils escaping and curling around her chin. Smoky green and purple eye shadow mystified her eyes and they appear to be glowing. She looked ethereal, like a mystic creature, a faerie glowing from within.
Sienna also could not keep her eyes from Gabriel. He wore a formal black tuxedo with a white shirt and a black tie. It shaped around his shoulders and hips and he appeared even bigger and more muscled than ever. He was male sensuality personified. If desire and raw masculinity could be bottled, he would make a killing. He wore the formal Royal sash in the colors of Italy diagonally draped over his chest below his jacket. His only concession to his Royalty, and only because he was performing the marriage ceremony.
Gabriel performed the wedding ceremony under the palm trees in the gazebo, and so comfortably as if he did it every day. His voice was deep, warm and soothing. Sienna drank every word he said deep into her soul … as if he said it to her.
“Gramps and William, my Dad used to say that marriage is a mirror in which one sees a reflection of oneself. A book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.”
He swallowed and looked at Sophia who watched him with tears rolling down her cheeks, and then his sizzling amber eyes caught and held Sienna’s.
“He told us to find that which we see in our own reflections, the one that makes us dream of forever without even realizing it. To find the true source of human happiness. Love. And once you do, to grab it with both your hands, your body and soul and never let it go.”
His eyes returned to the couple in front of them and smiled warmly at the obvious love between them.
“In you I see the love he spoke of. You have found in each other the true source of your happiness. And before William totally burns me to cinders for delaying any further … With the power vested in me as the King of San Italia I now pronounce you husband and wife. Grand pop William, you may now kiss your bride.”
Tears escaped Sienna’s eyes and she smiled tremblingly as the couple hugged and kissed each other tenderly. Then his words registered and she lost her breath and felt faint. King of San Italia. It meant he was not just deemed the King of San Marino, but the overall King of the greater Italy. She closed her eyes and her heart shuttered into tiny pieces.
Now, more than ever did
she realize that there was no future for her in his life. Nor for her child. It was impossible for him as the King of San Italia to marry someone of a low stand such as her.
She forced her tears and fears back when the happy couple turned to face them and she was the first to hug them.
“I am so happy for you, Gramps. You deserve to be happy. You were alone for far too long, being hogged down with a teenager like me.”
“My darling! I was never hogged down by you. You made my life whole and I enjoyed every day we spent together.”
“I for one am very happy she was hogged down, Sienna. Because of you, she was safeguarded from others so she could say yes to me here today. I hope you will accept me in your life as well.”
She hugged him tight and smiled brightly. “Of course Grand pop William! I couldn’t be happier.”
She felt a hard, warm hand smooth down her back and she stiffened. His breath was warm in her neck. His kiss on the side of her neck even more heated. He pulled her tighter against him with his hand folding around her waist to rest protectively over her belly.
Gramps noticed the possessive and protectiveness of his hand over her belly and her heart missed a beat.
“Well, seeing as it is such a joyous occasion, I want you all to share in some more.”
His caressing hand and possessiveness of his touch warned her what he was about to do and she stiffened and glared at him warningly.
“Gabriel, no!”
He looked at her, the look in his eyes one of belonging and pride and she knew nothing she could say would stop him.
“No, Red. I have to share this even if you want to hide it. I only feel pride and joy and I want them all to share it with me and I hope you as well.”
He speared all of them with a single glance and his smile spread to curl his lips right around his face.
“We, Sienna and I are going to have a baby, and I for one could not be happier! So, Sophia, Gramps and Aunt Viola, are you ready for another wedding?”
Sophia was the first to screech in joy and threw her arms around Sienna and then Gabriel. Even the staunch Aunt Viola could not stop smiling.
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