Lying awake beside the man who had managed to bring her to orgasm a handful of times before falling asleep from exhaustion, Gabriella was in shreds. Not from the fact it would be difficult to move following her session of animalistic s*x-but because of the words spoken to her by Luca; a man she once trusted almost as much as Maximus-at a time, even more so. But she attempted to rationalize how it was she had to enact the role requested of her as she was well aware that Luca was watching her and seemed to have access to her apartment-and because of this, she knew she had no chance to fight what was expected of her.
“You will marry Alec-” She began to recall the details in her mind once again. “He is already aware of his role and if he were to let out something or do something stupid...how
