Barely contained.

The beast inside…threatening to interrupt free.

“High quality,” he bit out, turning away in frustration. “I’m not your fucking babysitter. You’re an grownup.”

I snapped my mouth shut, briefly shocked, however I caught myself. “Consider me, I’m.”

“However don’t depart the premises earlier than I manage an escort for you.”

I huffed. “Certain, Daddy, I’ll keep on the resort.” I fluttered my eyelashes for good measure.

The look in his eyes turned laser-sharp and surprisingly sultry.

I fake-smiled at him, feigning innocence, till he shook his head as soon as, then turned and disappeared into the again workplace.

I checked out his retreating again and tsked.

Bossing me round has by no means labored. And what the hell was occurring with him?

However proper now…watch me, asshole.

And with that, I stormed immediately out of the lodge advanced, a way of urgency propelling me ahead.

I’d meant to seize a bottle of water and a few meals earlier than leaving, however my want to flee from Alex—and my have to finest him—was trumping any rational thought.

As I walked alongside the only winding highway, I attempted to recollect what the receptionist mentioned—a few miles.

I might simply stroll a few miles.

Fuck Alex, along with his fucking domineering character, attempting to inform me what I might or couldn’t do.

No surprise the ladies born into the Italian Mafia have been all depressing.

Was Gabe the identical?

He was dominant and had kidnapped Sophie, not as soon as however twice. But when he tried that shit with Sophie, he would have his palms full. I is likely to be the best way I used to be due to my household historical past, however Sophie was a rattling insurgent by way of and thru—to the purpose of self-sabotage.

For me? Changing into self-reliant and fiercely impartial was born out of necessity in a house the place my dad and mom have been utterly absorbed of their principally poisonous relationship.

With a father who barely checked out me and a mom for whom I’d at all times been simply an afterthought.

I realized to be self-reliant to outlive.

Realized that being by yourself was not the top of the world. And in the middle of years of boarding colleges and faculty holidays spent alone, I grew to become the best way I used to be.

Regardless of the little hiccup of what occurred in Italy, and the aftermath that made me give up the jet-setting I’d completed all summer time.

In the end, I used to be not letting others run my life—particularly pompous asses like Alessandro Falcone who thought the world revolved round them.

His appeal, his energy, his appears…he most likely had ladies falling throughout themselves to please him since he grew his first pubic hair.

Please him, or stroke his ego…or stroke one thing else.

“Conceited jerk,” I muttered underneath my breath as I left the lodge within the distance. “Fuck you, Alex Falcone.”

I trudged alongside the dusty highway for one more fifteen minutes, sweat dripping down my again.

The morning solar blazed overhead, baking the panorama—and me. I ought to’ve listened when the receptionist talked about the present heatwave. However no, I needed to storm off as a result of I let the domineering asshole get underneath my pores and skin.

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