Matteo I had been with too many women to count. Bodies. Legs. Mouths. The easy kind, the kind who never asked questions, who never tried to hold me. I didn’t date them. I didn’t kiss them. I didn’t want them. A relationship had always felt like a prison to me, one made of jealousy, expectations, endless noise. I didn’t have time for that s**t. I was a man who took what I wanted, left money on the table, and was gone before dawn. And yet here I was, breaking every rule I had ever made for myself, claiming Adriana’s mouth. I had never kissed a woman like this. Not once. Not even as an experiment. But her taste had branded me already, intoxicating, impossible to resist. She was f*****g sweet. Sweet, with a trace of salt, and beneath it something dangerous, something sharp that I co

