As they sped away from the warehouse, Tony could feel Maria’s tension surrounding the vehicle. He knew he had to take some control here, her Daddy would absolutely freak out if he had seen the way she had reacted to the gunshots in front of the men. Tony was so confident about Don Damon’s reaction he actually felt himself getting annoyed at the Don. He felt sorry for the beautiful brunette in the car next to him. She was barely 21 and had been thrown headfirst into a world she didn’t belong in or want to be a part of. He actually blamed the Don’s wife but the blame game would get him nowhere. There was no reason for Maria to be involved, she could have handled it but she felt above the situation. Tony rolled his eyes as he cleared his throat to break the silence.“Maria,” he started, drawing in a breath because he knew how well this was going to go down, “I know that what happened back there must have shocked you – and I completel

As the pair sat quietly in Tony’s car, Maria fiddled with the hem of her blouse as she bit her bottom lip. She felt very much like she had been ‘told off’ by Tony and wasn’t entirely sure she wanted to spend the night at his place. However, she also didn’t want to spend the night jumping at every little noise because she would be lying if she said the shooter hadn’t scared her.Tony was a very relaxed driver, once you’d driven with enemies trying to put bullets through your windows everything else felt like a breeze. He could feel the tension radiating from Maria, she was nervous and he couldn’t think of a single thing to say that would make her feel better. ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going to touch you, just sounds suspicious’, Tony reminded himself, driving to the outskirts of the city. He needed to live in a very precise location. It was close enough to the LeTale’s estate that he could b

Tony stood there for way too long, his hand hovering over the handle and his mind working against what his body was fighting for him to do.‘Do not sign your death warrant because someone young and pretty fluttered their eyelashes at you’ his internal voice scoffed at him. Tony’s hand fell away from the handle, his ears couldn’t even pick up Maria’s breath anymore and he suspected that she was holding it. ‘Not worth dying for’ could be his new internal motto he bitterly smirked to himself as his large hand wiped down his face and he let out a sigh, heading off for a cold shower in the main bathroom.Inside the room, Maria had indeed held her breath when she heard movement outside the door, her body tingling and begging for her to continue to push her over that pleasurable edge. Had he heard her? How absolutely mortifying. After a few minutes she heard his loud sigh and his feet pad down the hall, shortly followed by the sound of the bathroom extractor fan beginning to whirl. Maria’s h

There was that inherited anger she must have gotten from her Daddy. It almost physically hurt him to let her get the last word but he used her formal title knowing that would get across everything he had to say.Marie let out a short laugh, “Oh, Miss LeTale now again, is it?” she asked rhetorically. She wanted him to argue back, she wanted to feel like she had let out some of that pent-up steam and anger. “Am I only Maria so long as I’m being a good girl, Tony?” she scoffed, her head shaking sideways in pure disbelief that he had backed down in this way. “You’re Miss LeTale when you’re treating me like a damn scum of the earth employee” Tony replied, his voice measured and calm but the whiteness of his knuckles on the steering wheel were giving away how much restraint this was truly taking. He could tell she was wound up beyond relief, clearly didn’t finish the job in bed for herself last night.“News flash, Tony, you are an employee and you’ve done some rather unsavoury things in yo

Maria’s date was a reasonably handsome, though quite slim and tall man. He had brought her roses and immediately begun with the compliments which had made Maria blush, as they stood in the entrance to the mansion engaging in small talk whilst her mother hovered.“Tony, do you think she loves him?” Tommy whispered to the capo who chuckled a little and ruffled the young ones hair.“No Tommy, she just met the guy” he scoffed, though his eyes didn’t offered the same light heartedness his voice did. He could see how easily she fell into conversation with a man also from her world, how he made effortless jokes that she seemed to enjoy, throwing her head back a little as she laughed politely. Tony felt a surge of feeling inferior and being alarmingly aware of his lack of education and worldly experiences.As Tommy seemed to get uninterested in the proceedings, he sauntered off to bed whilst Tony trailed to his car. They would travel sepa