Luca clings onto my hand, leading me into his mom’s home. The coffee mug she always drank from in the center of the table, the kitchen is filled with a whole florist’s worth of vibrant flowers.
We take our seats, and Luca starts to bounce his knee, his pants brushing against my thigh.
“You’ve got this, Luca.” I squeeze his hand under the table.
“Do you want to hold her?” Maddie asks Luca. She looks magnificent. Her bright green eyes are filled with love as she looks down at her little baby girl, Hope.
“Give her to Uncle Luca.” He pushes his chair back from the table.
Grayson carefully places the sleeping baby in his arms. Luca’s face softens as he looks at the sleeping infant.
He leans over to me. “I wasn’t joking about wanting five of these,” he whispers in my ear, making my cheeks burn.
Having our own little family one day will be perfect. We have a lot of time to make up for just the two of us. I’d give him a whole tribe of babies, I’d give this man anything he wants. He deserves it.
“I’m counting on it. We can practice on our travels,” I whisper back and watch as his eyes light up.
“So, where is your first stop?” Maddie asks as Grayson pulls her onto his lap.
“Greece. Luca’s bought a villa in Crete we’re using as our base in Europe. From there, we can just do weekend trips wherever we want.”
“We have a list,” Luca announces. If my face wasn’t red before, it is now.
“Not that list.” He winks at me.
“We’re going to miss you guys,” Sienna pouts, wiping away a stray tear with a hiccup.
“We can FaceTime. You guys can even come out to visit?”
Maddie bursts out in tears. “Sorry, I’ve been an emotional mess since giving birth.”
Grayson laughs, pulling her back flush against him. “You’re perfect. Hence why I want to keep knocking you up.”
She giggles and smacks a kiss on his cheek.
“Uncle Luca,” Max says from his perch on his chair.
“Yes, Max.”
“Did it hurt being stabbed?”
Sienna gasps. Keller and Luca both laugh.
“Yes, Max. It hurt a lot. But nothing your legendary uncle can’t handle.”
Max nods, deep in thought, before looking at Keller. “Dad?”
“Yes, son?”
“Have you ever been stabbed?”
“No. I’m too well behaved.”
Grayson erupts into laughter and the whole table joins. All of these men are far from angels.
The doorbell rings, and Max rushes to get it and in strolls Frankie.
“Going to miss you.” Frankie pulls me into his side, tears stinging my eyes.
“You’ll be plenty busy here without us.”
Frankie’s taking Luca’s spot leading the mafia, with Grayson and Theo by his side. Luca is adamant that when we come home, whenever that may be, he doesn’t want that life back. I don’t know, that man is a natural leader. I can’t imagine him being happy running a club or helping at the gym. I guess we will see what our future holds.
Whatever makes him happy, that’s all that matters.
Frankie puts the bags of Chinese food down on the counter, shaking Luca’s hand before reaching Grayson.
Everyone watches on, holding their breath as Frankie holds out his hand to Grayson. Maddie smiles sweetly at Frankie.
“Truce?” Frankie asks.
A few seconds feel like hours before Grayson sighs and shakes his hand firmly.
“Yes, boss. You took a bullet for me. I can hardly say no, can I?” Grayson grins.
Maddie spins to face him and gasps. “He did what?”
Grayson plants a kiss on Maddie’s neck. “You can punish me later, sunshine.”
“Do you two ever stop?” Luca laughs and scrunches up his napkin and chucks it at them.
I lean back and watch Luca, taking it all in with a smile on his face. All of his family in one room, all back together and safe.
Luca drapes his hand around my chair, pulling me next to him. I look down at his tattooed hand splayed out on my shoulder, dropping a kiss on the dark rose covering the back.
I haven’t shown him the tattoo I got this morning, when I told him me and Maddie were going clothes shopping for our trip.
I clench my thighs together just imagining how he’s going to react. I think I’m going to be in for one hell of a reward.
“What’s got you squirming in your seat, tesoro?” Luca’s husky voice has my body reacting.
“Nothing,” I lie.
He stands, holding Hope out to Maddie.
“If you’ll just excuse us, we—” he pauses, scratching his stubble.
He covers his hands over Max’s ears.
“I need to fuck an answer out of my fiancé,” he says with a completely straight face.
Sienna and Maddie both wink at me at the same time. I want the floor to swallow me up.
I scowl at Luca as he bends and picks me up off my seat, throwing me over his shoulder.
The cool air causes my skin to erupt into goosebumps, and he slides me down his rock hard body and my back crashes against the brick wall.
“I’ll ask you again. What had you squirming in your seat?” He laces his hand around my throat and his finger delicately strokes my thigh. My dress is getting hoisted up my hips by his searching hand.
“I got a tattoo for you.”
His hand stops moving. “Where?”
“I’m waiting for you to find it.”
He growls. I bite my bottom lip.
“Don’t make me drag you home, strip you off and tie you to the bed so I can investigate every single inch of you,” he whispers.
I give him my best innocent look. “Can’t, we will miss our flight.”
“My private jet goes when I tell them to.”
Oh.
“It’s a surprise.”
He pulls my lace panties to the side, exposing me. The only coverage we have is the hedges behind us around the side of the house.
“Is that right?”
I hold in a moan as his finger slides along my pussy.
“Where is it?” he asks while sinking a finger inside me. He bites my earlobe at the same time.
“Arm,” I pant out.
“Can I see?” His heavy breathing tickles my neck.
“Y-yes. If you add another finger.”
“You drive a hard bargain, Rosa.”
My eyes roll back as he fills me up further.
Tingles erupt through my body as he runs a finger along the inside of my left arm, all the way down my bicep until he hits that sensitive spot on the inside of my elbow he found all that time ago.
I look down at where his gaze is fixed on the fine line initials LR inside a cute heart inked into my skin for him.
His eyes glisten as he stares at me. “I-I don’t know what to say.”
“Do you like it?”
“I fucking love it.” He kisses me deeply, pushing his fingers in harder, causing me to moan into his mouth.
“It’s still pretty red, but I love it, too.”
“It’s beautiful. I love you, Rosa. That is the one certain in my life, my undying love for you.”
“Can you finish me off so we can go back in there?”
He growls in response, rewarding me with another finger.
