guys. They were coming at me by
then, and Shannon was smart enough to make a run for it. I only needed to get
away myself at that point. I figured they’d chase me home where Mom would yell
at them for bothering her boy. Sounded easy, but one of them was a tackle on
the high school football team, and he crushed me.”
Minka’s fingers wrap around mine under the bubbles.
She’s consoling the kid in me who played hero and got his ass kicked for the
trouble.
“I don’t know what might have happened if I hadn’t
been a scrappy fucker. I was pissed about them messing with Shannon. I was even
pissed that they were causing Missus Waller’s yard to get torn up. I started
kicking and hitting anything around me. Frankie claimed I looked like I was
having a conniption fit when he showed up. I know I bit one guy and grabbed
another guy’s balls. I was twisting those balls when my brother got there.
Frankie didn’t have to do much. Those fuckers were already hurting and thought
I was crazy. Once they saw I had backup from my big brother, they bailed on the
fight.”
“How did that lead you to your line of work?”
“Got me noticed by the Morelli mob. I was still
young, but I got a rep for being willing to go ugly to get shit done.”
“Yeah, the biting definitely makes you stand out,”
she teases, kissing my shoulder. “Who was your first target?”
“A nobody used car salesman banging the wrong guy’s
wife.”
“How did you do it?”
“Made it look like a break-in. Did it with a bat.”
“How did you feel afterward?”
“Numb, I guess. Not really guilty. Just strange
that a person was part of this world and then he wasn’t.”
Minka studies me. “Did it make you feel powerful?”
“Not really. The way people respected me gave me
power.”
“I always feel more powerful by getting away with
stuff than from the actual stuff I do.”
Caressing her lower lip, I murmur, “I love watching
you walk into a room. You move like a stone-cold killer. Anyone with a brain
can see what you are.”
“Stop praising me. It makes you seem desperate,”
she says, sliding onto my lap. “A desperate Dino makes me want to fuck.”
“We don’t want that, now do we, Apples?”
“Appleby isn't my real last name, you know?”
“What’s your real last name then?”
“Cockbottom.”
Laughing, I wrap her in my arms. Minka grinds her
pussy against my dick, and I feel my erection nearly tear through the swim
trunks.
“What was your first job?”
“Not now,” she whispers against my lips.
My fingers tease the straps of her bikini. I want
to fuck her so badly, and the hot water is intoxicating on my skin. As much as
I want to rip her clothes off and sink my cock deep inside her, anyone can look
into the pool area and see Minka naked.
This idea is fucking unacceptable. No man is ever
allowed to see her naked again. None. Well, maybe a doctor if it’s to
save her life and only if I’m right there to keep his mind on work. Otherwise,
no one else will know my woman’s naked curves.
11
~ Minka ~
Killing Them Roughly
D ino is a sexual dream come to life. I look at him
and instantly want to fuck. I can’t get enough of his lips on my skin. The guy
is addictive, and I’m his junkie. No getting around this fact, and I see no
reason to try.
After we return from the pool, he fucks me hard. I
come twice, leaving my entire body humming. I want more, though. Kissing him, I
straddle his hard, muscled body. He’s instantly thick in my hand.
“It’s never enough,” he murmurs.
I don’t know if he’s accusing me of being sex
crazed, or he’s simply making a declaration. All I know is I’ve enjoyed sex
before but never like with Dino.
Forty minutes later, he smiles lazily as I roll off
of him.
“You’d make a hell of a cowgirl.”
Flopping onto my stomach, I close my eyes and bask
in all of the hot waves of pleasure.
Dino is quiet. I half-open my eyes and take in the
sight of his sculpted face. He’s a
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