Chapter 79

Diego:

I smiled as I looked at Lea laying in my arms, peacefully sleeping.

Her chest rose and fell with each breath that she took, and I couldn’t help but purr as I saw the love bite that I gave her on her neck.

I had to admit, it took everything in me not to mark her here and now, knowing that she might not be ready for it. The idea of doing this when I didn’t know where we stood in our relationship, our mating, or our presence amongst one another.

The woman didn’t even know that Cosimo was the one who killed her father. I hated to hide that from her, but I knew that she wouldn’t be able to understand or contain her anger. She needed to be trained, and regardless of what I felt right now, regardless of my anger toward my mother, the pain toward losing my brother, and the hate that I had toward the man that I should have called father. I didn’t understand how a man could be as cold and cruel toward his own blood. But I knew one thing, I wasn’t going to let him get away with it.