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She refused to eat, and was lying stiffly against me again, as if she would bolt away given the first chance.

Sighing heavily, I said, “You are the most stubborn woman I’ve ever met. Apparently, our little session didn’t teach you a thing.”

The tears that I thought she had gotten through rose to the surface. I could hear the quivering in her voice. “I don’t know why you are doing all of this. What is your goal? You don’t seem like the type of man who needs money. So, ransom doesn’t seem like it’s the end result. If you wanted me dead, wouldn’t you have killed me already? So what? What exactly is it you want?”

I wasn’t sure how much I wanted to tell her. It was only a matter of time until she was free. Either by my hand when her father did exactly as I demanded, or due to my death if I fucked this up. But either way, the less she knew, the better. But at the same time, she wasn’t a fool and was smart enough to know it wasn’t by chance she was taken. She was a pawn and she knew that.

“Your father fucked me over, and now there’s a price to pay,” I pretty much snarled, feeling her trembling in my arms from something other than cold. “And I don’t think you are such a naive woman that you don’t know what your father is capable of. An intelligent woman would know that Daddy Dearest has a lot of enemies which makes you vulnerable. I’m just the man who had enough balls to actually strike, take, and hold on to what he feels is his.”

“So, you plan on keeping me? For how long? Or do you plan on never returning me?”

“That depends on him. And you.”

I heard her sigh as her body tensed. “You don’t know my father.”

“I do. Trust me, I do.” I stared at my gun. It was never very far away from me nowadays; sitting on the floor next to the bed when I reached for it and brought it up to set it on the bed in front of her, facing the fire and away from either of us. A reminder. “You don’t know me. Your father doesn’t know me and what I am capable of.”

When she spoke again, it was clipped and emotionless. “And I’m just to be your captive and behave?”

“Yes, and eat the damned food when I offer it to you.” I pushed another piece past her lips to shut her up and change the subject. Speaking of her father only angered me, and I was doing everything within my being to remain calm, levelheaded, and to silence the rage that bubbled from within. A man of fury did not make wise decisions.

I debated leaving the gun there, just to make a quiet point, but I knew I didn’t trust her enough to do that. So, I put it back under my side of the bed and brought another piece of meat to her mouth, which this time, she opened without me having to force her to.

She ate several pieces I offered her after that, then refused the next, saying, “I’m full, thank you.”

“Two more bites,” I decreed. I didn’t want to stop feeding her. The truth of the matter was that I enjoyed the intimacy of the entire situation.

I enjoyed Aria.

My captive.

My revenge.

My problem.

But also… I enjoyed my delicious little pet, and as she ate from my hand, I pictured making her purr once again. But this time, around my cock.

When I’d stopped, inches from fucking her in her bedroom, I’d promised myself that it would be a to be continued. And now was the time. I wasn’t done with the little princess quite yet.

8

Matthew

I could hear her sigh as she opened her mouth, and I pictured my dick entering it. Too bad she shared blood with Vittorio Costa which made her my enemy regardless of how hard she made my dick. Her tastes in the bedroom and mine clearly went hand in hand. Maybe I could keep her longer for enjoyment purposes and not ransom her right away… But then I chided myself inwardly. I couldn’t believe I was even thinking like that. The life we would be forced to lead wasn’t fit for man nor beast, and definitely not for a woman, regardless of her connection to that prick Costa.

Order, structure, rules. I had a code I lived by. No mess. Sparkly clean, and this woman beneath me was anything but mess free.

I needed to deal with this situation with Vittorio Costa swiftly.

But I had her right now, and I intended to enjoy her to the fullest.

I was done thinking.

I was done planning.

I wanted one thing.

I was hungry. Hungry for her.

So, I positioned her onto her back and spread her legs, lowering my head between them in one swift motion. She was already naked, and this left her vulnerable and easy prey for me.