Chapter 48

My core clenches. My nipples bead. Shit, all I have to do is think of him and I am already dripping. Also, because that jerk had denied me my orgasm. Honestly, how dare he? If he thinks he can continue to do that to me… Well… No way, am I standing for it. He has to come to me at some point. Unless... he's f*cking someone else? I curl my fingers into fists.

Still, that little encounter in the chapel had confirmed that he wants me. So why had he not escorted me back? Why had he left it to Seb to do so? TheAlessio I have come to know is so possessive, so primal in his ownership that, no way, would he have allowed anyone else to come near me, let alone hand me over to another man’s care, even if it had been only for a little while. I hunch my shoulders, stare at the horizon…

Unless…what I had done to him, had really broken down the trust—tremulous as it had been—between us completely. Unless he really doesn’t consider me as his wife anymore. No, not possible. He’s not someone who would le