Entangled (The Accidental Billionaires #2) - J. S. Scott Page 0,42
her voice made me cave in. I couldn’t force this woman to do something she couldn’t do with her whole heart. It wouldn’t be fair.
“Then I’ll take the sex. For now,” I grumbled.
“What if I can’t—”
“You can,” I interrupted. “You just need the good experiences to outweigh the bad.”
“How do we do it?”
I smirked into her hair. “I don’t think you need me to teach you that.”
“Actually, I do. We were only together a couple of times, and everything after that was bad.”
“It wasn’t your fault.”
Nine years ago, I hadn’t really had the chance to romance Skye, and I regretted that. She’d deserved more. But I was determined to make up for every fast screw I’d ever given her when we were young.
She sighed. “I had your child. And I was married for years. And I still feel like I don’t know much of anything.”
My cock was so hard that it was physically painful. “You have a very willing teacher,” I assured her. “But let’s figure out your trigger stuff first, and not just with the intimacy issue.”
“I’ve never quite figured out how to not be afraid all the time,” she confessed. “I’ve just learned not to let it show.”
Hell, she might as well have knifed me in the chest. That’s how goddamn bad it hurt to hear that it was hard for her to ever really relax her guard.
“Why?”
“Because there wasn’t a single minute of my marriage that I wasn’t afraid that Marco would figure out what was happening and snuff me out.”
From what she’d said, Skye had tried to be a model wife. Why would Marino want her dead? “What did you do except try to please him?”
She lifted her head and looked around. There wasn’t another couple close to us, but I had a feeling she didn’t want anyone to hear our conversation.
“I did plenty that would make him kill me in a heartbeat,” she said breathlessly.
I couldn’t imagine what a woman like Skye could do to any guy that would make him want her to disappear. Fuck knew I couldn’t comprehend that. I never wanted her out of my sight.
“Like what?”
She was silent as she laid her head back down on my shoulder, her mouth as close to my ear as she could get it. “I wasn’t just docile and obedient during my marriage,” she admitted.
“So you fought him?”
“In the only way I could. Aiden, I figured out what was happening in the family right after Maya’s first birthday. And once I knew, I couldn’t stay silent.”
Holy shit! “You confronted him?”
“Worse.”
I shuddered at the thought of her risking her life by telling her ex-husband that she knew he was into organized crime. “What the hell could be worse than that?”
“Once I knew, I couldn’t just let it happen. I went to the police. They sent me to the FBI because they were federal crimes. I was an informant for several years. I’m the reason that the Marino crime family all ended up in jail for life. And I spent every minute of the day terrified that they’d find out. Once the FBI promised me that if anything ever happened or if I was compromised they’d make sure Maya was safe, I started telling them everything I knew or could find out.”
The truth finally slammed me over the head with a sledgehammer.
Holy fuck!
She was right.
There was something worse and more dangerous than confronting the mob.
Skye Weston had been the FBI snitch who had brought the entire Marino organization down for good.
CHAPTER 16
SKYE
I’d never told anyone that I’d helped bring down the Marino crime family. It wasn’t something I was exactly proud of, but it had been something my conscience had demanded that I do.
It had also been the only way to make sure Maya and I were safe for the rest of our lives.
Women didn’t leave a Marino male, and the ones who had before me had conveniently come up missing and were never seen again.
Given the choice between disappearing and being an informant, it had been a pretty easy decision. There was no way I was going to have my daughter reach adulthood having been raised in a crime family. She hadn’t really understood much of what was going on when she was young—thank God! And I’d wanted to get her out before she could figure out that her mother had married the mob.
Aiden didn’t say a word to me as he took my hand and led me down to the beach. It was deserted, and