CHAPTER TWENTY: GIOVANNI
Ilostcontroland I can’t say that I regret it.
Winter needed to be taught a lesson.
Clearly, she’d stopped fearing me somewhere along the way and I hadn’t noticed. So I had to set her in her place. Because I wasn’t lying when I told her I wasn’t like the others: Maximo, Vito, and Enzo. They’re allowing themselves to be blinded by her gorgeous body and sweet face.
I’m perfectly fine with destroying a sweet face when I need to.
Or a tight pussy.
I hadn’t touched her while her pussy had been ripped. Instead, I’d sat around thinking about what I was going to do when the doctor gave her the all clear. I’d already been taking my time before Maximo shoved a fucking pool stick in her and broke her. So having to wait even longer when it wasn't in the plan was driving me crazy.
I’d thought of a lot of things.
In the end, I hadn’t done any of them. Because when I was planning, I wasn’t accounting for Winter trying to fight me.
She’d fucking punched me.
That was all it took for my control to slip, for my monster to come out and play. The same monster who doesn’t care whether or not I kill my baby brother by accident. The same one who almost forgot that we need Winter a little bit longer.
After I came in her, I’d had to leave. She’d look so pretty with my marks covering her body and my cum leaking out of her. I’d wanted to slide right back inside of her, make those little desperate mewls of pain leave her lips again.
But I knew it was time to reel it in.
I can’t allow myself to be swayed by my emotions for any longer than necessary, or I’ll be just like them.
A complete idiot.
I rub my chin, keeping my eyes on the road in front of me. I left Winter how she was. Either she’ll manage to find a way to get to her bed or Enzo will find her in the library in the morning. He’ll have to help her either way because I hadn’t bothered to untie her hands.
I’d wanted to leave her defenseless.
That was the purpose of my lesson in the first place, to show her how vulnerable she’d left herself without a guard that day.
Things just hadn’t gone as planned.
I rub a thumb along my lip.
I regret not tasting her pussy after I pulled out, her mouth as it screamed, her saliva as it mixed with my cum and her blood.
Next time.
No, there won’t be a next time, I remind myself.
I can’t allow myself to be distracted by her cunt, not when I know her mind is working even harder right now. She’s up to something with Diamond Hawthorne and that’s dangerous in more ways than one.
I’m unsure what Diamond knows, what all his father has told him about Winter’s mother, but I know he at least knows some of it. He was the one to approach Winter, so he had to have planned on twisting the knowledge he had, making it work to his benefit.
He hadn’t planned on me being one step ahead.
And Winter may have toughened and smartened up, but she isn’t a criminal mastermind. She’s going to let Diamond, and whatever fucked up intentions he has, get her further in trouble. No doubt whatever he told he is what has inspired the sudden personality change. Before, she wouldn’t have mouthed off to me or challenged me, she certainly wouldn’t have hit me.
I tap my fingers on my steering wheel.
Vito and I both have been keeping an eye on her, waiting for her to expose her hand. She’d flashed it just a bit a week ago when she’d wanted to go with us to Oasis. The way I knew she would. Conversing about the club and meeting with Seven Quad hadn’t been neglect on our parts, but simple planning. Smart and effective.
I’d seen right through her little act at breakfast as she’d fished for an invite to go with us. I’d also made note of the fact that she’d been preying on Vito in particular, just knowing he would take pity on her and invite her. He’d noticed the same thing, and it’d pissed him off.