Alexa was carefully balanced upon her boss’ firm shoulders, staring down the youngest of the Romano brothers as they began their game of Chicken.
Matteo wasted little time, suddenly launching himself forward and grabbing her shoulders, using his strength to try and force her backwards.
But Alexa used the strength of her legs along with Dante’s strong hold on her thighs to remain seated where she was as the struggle continued.
Noticing that Matteo was managing to force her slightly off balance and to the side, Dante turned his sights towards his brother Roberto.
The Mafia Boss gave his bearded brother a sly wink before using his own foot to swiftly sweep at Roberto’s leg.
The sudden and unexpected move caused the giant to topple over, along with Matteo who still clung to his shoulders.
The two brothers crashed down into the water with gasps before resurfacing with matching frowns.
“What the f**k was that, Dante?” Roberto demanded, giving him a playful shove to the chest.
“What?” Dante asked, innocently.
The Don playfully acted as if he had no clue as to what his brother was referring to.
“I don’t know what you mean?” he grinned proudly.
Roberto’s matching emerald eyes narrowed into slits as he came to realise that in this particular game, there were no rules!
“Oh, so you wanna play it like that, huh?”
Roberto’s scowl changed into a smirk of his own as Matteo got back up onto his shoulders for the second round.
“Alright, we’re playing no rules, boys!” Matteo loudly announced and the men standing around them began cheering even louder.
Alexa looked worried now as she spoke down to Dante.
“What did you just do?”
Dante merely chuckled darkly, causing her core to vibrate with the deepened sound of his voice from her position on top of his shoulders.
“You got this, bella!” (beautiful) he called up to her, still staring down his taller brother as they readied themselves for another go.
“GO!” Luca shouted and round two had begun.
Matteo wasn’t holding back anymore and his sudden and vicious launch at Alexa surprised her.
He grabbed both of her shoulders as he had before, but this time his mischievous grin revealed something sinister would soon happen.
Before she had the chance to think about what it could have been, Matteo moved his right hand across and groped her chest!
His firm hand squeezed at her left breast, startling her and giving him the chance to shove her shoulder.
Both Alexa and Dante fell to the side with a scream, silenced only by the water as they were submerged by it.
As the two came up for air, Dante looked to Alexa who had gone completely red in the face from such a clear display of crossing the line. One courtesy of Dante’s youngest brother, Matteo.
“What happened?” Dante asked her.
Apparently from his position below them, he wasn’t able to see what everyone else saw; what had happened to her.
And maybe it was for good reason.
If Dante had seen his youngest brother groping his assistant’s breast, he probably would have beaten the man to death right here in the pool!
Blood or no blood, it would have been unacceptable in his eyes.
Knowing full well of the apparent jealousy being shared between the two brothers over her, Alexa decided to let such a thing slide... this time anyway.
“Nothing, I just lost my balance.”
Alexa lied, all the while keeping her eyes on her opponent and the clearly cocky brother above her.
“Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.”
Alexa sounded sure of herself now as Dante allowed her to get back up onto his shoulders for the third and final round to commence.
Matteo looked to her with a massive grin.
She was about to wipe that grin right off his face!
She had a plan… one sure to work.
Luca lifted the handkerchief for the last round.
“Go easy on each other, will ya?” he teased with a chuckle.
“Ready, and… GO!”
This time Alexa waited for her opponent to advance on them.
Dante remained still, watching as Roberto came moving through the water and Matteo reached out to grasp at her shoulders...
As he always did.
Alexa was a smart young woman.
She knew that Matteo thought her to be too sweet and innocent to try any sort of dirty move.
And she had one that would catch him off guard for sure!
The moment the gap between both Alexa and Matteo had been closed, with his hands grasping at her shoulders, she made her move.
Leaning in towards him, her hands cupped both sides of his face and pulled him in closer.
Everyone there watched, as if it had happened in slow motion…
Alexa slammed her lips up against Matteo’s and kissed him, momentarily stunning him and catching him completely off guard!
Using all her strength, she used both hands to shove him backwards.
As their kiss ended, the two of them separated.
Matteo went flying backwards, causing the massive Roberto to release his grip on his little brother and allow him to fall with a giant ‘splash’ into the water behind him.
The men watching cheered in uproar at the sudden and clearly unexpected win.
A woman had beaten two of the Romano brothers!
And not with strength, mind you... by her wits alone!
The smile suddenly fell from Alexa’s face as she felt herself being thrown back by Dante’s powerful arms, sending her too into the warm water with a ‘splash’.
As she pulled herself up to surface, panting for air and confused by his actions, she searched for Dante who was now striding towards the stairs leading out of the pool.
“Hey! What was the hell was that for?” she demanded angrily, forgetting in that moment just who she was speaking to in such a manner.
“I thought you and I were a team, Dante Romano!”
Dante suddenly stopped mid-stride, frozen with an expression of withheld anger as he stood in silence, with his back still facing her.
Confused and now angry at him, Alexa went on with her furious rant.
To her, what he just did to her was totally uncalled for!
“What, you’re not talking to me now? I just won us the game and you don’t wanna talk to me! How childish…”
Now he was furious!
Dante spun around so quickly that water flew off to the side and within seconds he had closed the gap between them, his long legs striding quickly through the pool water.
She could sense the fiery rage practically burning from his skin, radiating outwards as he came to stand before her.
His eyes were blazing with such viciousness as he stared right into hers, closing in like the dangerous predator he was inside.
“W...what are you doing?” she asked, holding both her hands out in front of her.
She looked terrified of him now, and with good enough reason!
With no warning whatsoever Dante reached down, grabbed onto her and hoisted the delicate young assistant up over his shoulder with ease.
The movement was incredibly swift and powerful.
It surprised Alexa as one moment she was standing in the pool and the next she was being carried out of the pool by this god-like monster of a man.
Fighting against such an obvious display of dominance over her, Alexa kicked her legs and pounded her clenched fists against his muscular back as she shouted out angrily at her boss.
“Put me down right now, Dante Romano! I mean it, you’d better let me go, or else!”
Everyone in the pool and lounging around the outside of if suddenly sat up, watching this sudden entertaining display as their Don carried Alexa along.
“Let me GO!”
She continued kicking and screaming as they headed along the patio, towards the back entrance leading into the mansion.
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Dante kicked the door to his private bedroom wide open with his bare foot before marching into the room with the furious woman still held over his shoulder.
And Alexa was still as loud as she had been down by the poolside.
“Let me go!” she shouted.
“You can’t do this to me, put me down right... ahh!”
She was suddenly silenced as Dante dropped her down onto his bed and stood looming over her at his position right beside it.
Alexa bounced with a groan before moving to prop herself up with both her elbows as she looked up at her powerful boss.
His eyes were fierce, almost glowing from withheld rage, but she kept her own furious glare fixed directly on his from her position on the mattress of his bed.
She wouldn’t allow him to win this!
Both of Dante’s fists were clenched tightly down by his sides as he stood in silence, breathing in and out deeply. Over and over he did this.
As intimidating as he looked now, she wouldn’t allow him to get away with how he had acted down there towards her; whether he was her boss or not!
What he had done to her was completely and totally embarrassing.
Alexa could feel her heart thudding loudly over and over within her head as she opened her mouth and let him have it...
“What the hell is your problem!” she snapped.
“What were you even thinking back there?”
“I could ask you the same thing, Alexa!” he suddenly snapped, looking her up and down with disgust.
His voice was clearly laced with venom as he spat them.
Alexa was rather surprised by him using her first name. He’d never done it before now.
But she pushed such thoughts aside and focused on solving the real problem at hand here.
She frowned with confusion.
“What are you talking about?” she asked cluelessly.
But Dante was vicious and again, snapped his response angrily at her.
“Why the f**k did you kiss him?”
Her brows furrowed with concern. Concern of how this man was acting towards her.
Normally she would find this kind of heated anger and passion a massive turn on, and in some small way, it was causing her sensitive core to heat up down below.
But was he angry with her because she kissed Matteo?
Was that all this little outburst of his was about?
A single kiss?
One that had meant nothing to her whatsoever!
“I fail to see how it’s any of your business, sir!” she shot back at him, once again angered by his apparent reaction to such a trivial thing.
“I mean, who are you to tell me who I can and can’t kiss!”
“You are my assistant, Alexa! You’re MINE!”
He suddenly shouted with such incredible fire in his eyes.
“You belong to ME, not Matteo! Do you understand?”
Hearing his words, Alexa frowned and shook her head.
She spoke calmly and with a low tone to her voice now.
“I don’t belong to you, Dante… I don’t belong to anyone.”
Suddenly a switch went off somewhere deep inside of him and the powerful Mafia Boss suddenly lunged forward, closing the gap between them and grabbing both of Alexa’s wrists as she went to defend herself from him.
Pulling her in closer towards him, he held her in place. She was now kneeling on the edge of the mattress as the two stared into one another’s eyes for a moment in silence.
Dante’s grip on her wrists was vice-like, dominating and strangely an incredible turn on for Alexa, though she would never give that fact away in this heavily heated moment.
This was all about power… about who was in control.
To anyone else who may have been watching, it would have looked like an old-fashioned stare-down.
But this moment meant so much more to these two, as they continued to breathe heavily while staring into each other’s eyes.
Their faces mere inches away from one another now.
Surprisingly, Dante found himself unable to hold back any longer.
He needed to give in to his uncontrollable desire to have this woman.
He needed to dominate her, to control her…
To be inside of her.
Within seconds he crashed his lips against hers in a desperate and rage-fuelled need to consume Alexa's delectably lush red lips for a second time since they had met.
The kiss they had shared in the limo only days earlier, it wasn’t enough for a man like him.
He needed more…
And although Alexa felt the same outrageous anger towards him at what had just happened, she couldn’t resist the need to reciprocate his affections as she willingly gave in to her desires and foolishly kissed him back.
As their kiss deepened, becoming far more passionate than they even thought possible, Dante released his hold on her wrists. She wrapped both her arms around the back of his head, deepening the kiss even further.
As if she were hungrily devouring him.
Alexa pressed herself up against his firm, sculpted chest, hungrily consuming his lips and tongue as both his massive hands moved around to cup her supple buttocks.
The two were insatiable with one another.
Dante’s hands worked to knead the perfect cheeks of her buttocks, as he tilted his head to the opposite side and continued kissing her delicious mouth.
His skilful tongue slid in through her parted lips, massaging hers comfortably whilst hidden away from view. Their tongues danced together in such perfect rhythm, totally in sync with one another.
It was as if the two had been made for each other.
They shared short and shallow breaths between each of their kisses before continuing, as Dante prompted Alexa to lay down on top of the mattress with a firm yet sudden push to her chest.
Landing with a surprised gasp, Alexa eagerly watched him climbing up on his knees, across the mattress’ cushiony surface, until he hovered right over her beautiful body.
He spoke in a deep, husky voice as his eyes, now hooded with lust, watched her laying beneath him on his bed… in his room, at long last.
She was completely at his mercy as he straddled her.
“You have no idea what you do to me, bella…” (beautiful)
Alexa’s chocolate brown eyes darted downwards, noticing his protruding manhood tenting within his dark swimmers as he lowered his face down to hover just above hers.
She spoke softly to him, never once breaking eye contact.
“Actually… judging from the massive erection pressing against my pelvis, I think I have some kind of an idea… Mr. Romano.” she protested with a teasing smirk.
He gave a dark and animalistic growl before leaning in and consuming her once more with one of his powerfully intoxicating kisses.
As he suddenly pulled away from her lips again, he spoke quickly, as if he couldn’t bear to be away from her mouth for even a second longer.
“And call me Dante.”
His mouth once again crashed hard into hers, the merciless Mafia Don kissing her with such reckless abandonment, incredible power and obvious dominance.
Alexa was left in complete awe of what this man was capable of doing to her, with nothing but his surprisingly soft lips and skilled tongue.
She was practically dripping wet, and it wasn’t from the pool water!
His kisses, they were beyond electrifying.
Tantalising her senses and sending waves of warm euphoric ecstasy washing over her, one after the other.
They left her wanting more and more with each kiss as it happened.
What was this man doing to her?
And more importantly, should she allow it to continue?