He is standing behind you ALIYANA, I scream in my head.

“Why would you apologize and mean it if you don't even know me?” My question comes out as a whisper, confusion apparent in every word uttered.

He stands next to me, on my left. Everything about Marco Catelli is wrong, evil, deadly, and wrong.

“I do know you.” His answer, simple, a fact.

I should not be drawn to him, not like this. But in this glass cocoon, surrounded by peach, white, and yellow roses, with a made-mad-man next to me, I can’t deny the feelings I am experiencing right now. Belonging.

Peering from the corner of my eye, I tilt my head slightly to the right and stare at his suit pocket. The urge to touch him takes me on. His scent ingraining itself in me.

My body burns as he brushes his arm against mine. It is the second time he has touched me without consent. It feels forbidden yet, not mistaken.

“We are practically attached to the hip now, Aliyana. How about a wager?” He slips his hands in the pocket of his slacks.

His words take me off guard.

“A wager? What does that have to do with anything?”

honesty and sincerity. I, well, we can say I am a man that

fair enough, what kind of

give you a clue?” He asks, but is it really

as the light breeze of The State he controls with his brother, blows my hair back, cooling the heat this man

to

own

I am currently feeling? Or is he like Gabriel, a man who just wants to live in the moment, an impending death, an early grave? Or like Mero,

It is a rhetorical question and earns me a laugh when I say it. Not sure why I say what I do, but they are now words between us. His laughter sounds nice, but I

feel right now, is one of them.

mark. Better me

you crave the kiss

not a bad

“You have an answer for everything. If you want me to even consider a wager with you, I’ll need more

of you and show you more than just

snort at how

a Catelli.

woman who is easily 10 years younger than him. I am tainted-blood. And there is no way Papa will even consider it, he hates the

honor in that if I don't

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