Finding Beauty in the Darkness - Nikki Ash Page 0,67

back arches in pleasure, pushing back and meeting him thrust for thrust. He pulls back and angles my ass higher, allowing him to go deeper so he’s hitting that perfect spot in me. My body begins to shake as my orgasm overtakes me, and Gio follows shortly after.

Leaning back down, still inside of me, Gio whispers, “I love you too, Aria.” He pulls out of me and I immediately miss the warmth he elicits within me. I turn over onto my back, needing to take a calming breath before I get up to clean myself. Only before I do, Gio returns with a warm washcloth. He spreads my legs and cleans me up. Throwing the washcloth to the side, he crawls up my body and gives me a soft kiss. First on my lips, then on my throat. He works his way down, giving each breast a kiss, then trails dozens of kisses down along my torso until he reaches my sex. He places a soft, wet kiss on the top of my mound then looks up at me, granting me with a playful lopsided grin before he works his way back up my body ending where he started, with my lips. Not wanting our connection to break, I wrap my arms around his neck and my ankles around his waist.

“I’m late.” He chuckles, then pulls back, peeling himself off me.

It’s day two without Gio and I’m missing him like crazy. We text throughout day when he’s not busy and last night we video chatted. He even convinced me to participate in some kinky phone sex. While that was hot, I can’t wait for him to return.

I’m hanging out in the kitchen with Natalie and Holly when Cecilia walks in. “Veronica, the new girl, had to go home for an emergency. Can either of you take over her date tonight?” Both girls shake their heads.

“Great!” She taps away on her phone for a few minutes, then says, “I spoke with Giovanni and he asked if you could do him the favor and meet with the new member tonight.”

“Gio would never ask that.” I look at Cecilia incredulously. She turns her phone around so I can read her texts, and my stomach feels like lead.

Giovanni: Stanley is an important member. Ask Aria to do it. Tell her I’m asking her as a personal favor.

My heart breaks that Gio would even consider me an option. He hasn’t said it since the day he left, but when he told me he loved me, I thought it meant something to him. To ask me to work for him, to be with another man, this can’t be right.

“He wants me to have sex with him?”

Cecilia rolls her eyes. “Of course not. It’s just a meet and greet. He’s booked the private room, but it’s only for companionship.”

“I’ll call him and ask him myself.” I grab my phone from my back pocket, but it rings once and goes to voicemail. I try again and it does it again. “Fine. If that’s what he wants, then I’ll do it.” I leave the kitchen to go get ready and send Gio numerous texts, asking him why he would do this, but he doesn’t answer a single one.

Once I’m dressed and ready to go, I try to call Gio one last time, getting the same voicemail. “Hey Gio, it’s me. I’m about to entertain a new guest for you. Cecilia said you asked me to do it as a favor, but I don’t get it. I know we haven’t made anything official, but you asked me to quit working here. I just don’t understand. Okay, well, call me when you get this, please.”

I tuck my phone into my pocket in case Gio calls or texts and head downstairs to greet Stanley. Normally Edgardo tells us where to go, but when I get down there, Cecilia is waiting. “Room one, Aria.” She gives me a tight-lipped smile and I nod and head down the hallway.

I knock once before opening the door. At first, I don’t see anyone, so I walk farther into the room. The door slams closed behind me and when I turn around, I’m face-to-face with the man who has haunted me every night in my sleep.

“Help!” I scream out, hoping somebody will hear me. “Heeeellllpppp!” I scream again. Before I can scream for a third time, Weston’s hand comes down and hits me across my face. I try to run—where? I’m not sure—but he catches me and