Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 32879 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 164(@200wpm)___ 132(@250wpm)___ 110(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 32879 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 164(@200wpm)___ 132(@250wpm)___ 110(@300wpm)
“What other demands do you have?” he asked.
“What’s the point in asking? You’re going to deny them anyway.”
This made him smile, he just couldn’t help it. Her little temper tantrum was so cute.
“Try me.”
“Fine. I don’t want to see my father,” Adele said.
This made him tense up.
“I don’t know what business you have of his, but I don’t want any of this to be cause for him thinking I’m happy to reconcile with him. He hurt my mother and he wasn’t a great dad, at all.”
“There are going to be occasions I cannot control,” Enzo said. “My presence will be demanded at each of those events.”
“Then I’m sure between you and Hank, you can come up with an arrangement that means either one of you goes, or I stay at home.?” Adele shrugged. “It’s not like he can suddenly introduce me as his daughter. He wanted nothing to do with me growing up, and he doesn’t get to be involved in my life now.”
“Do you think that’s wise?”
“I don’t care if you see it as wise or not. I don’t want it, nor do I want to meet his wife or his other kids.”
Enzo had a feeling Hank’s broken promises had done a number on her.
“I’ll make sure it happens.” That was his first lie. There was no way Adele would be his wife and not encounter Hank.
He had to wonder if this was what Hank wanted.
Hank wanted to be part of Adele’s life, but she spent way too much time pushing him away, and now, with Carla gone, Adele was alone. He wouldn’t put it past Hank to do something like that.
“Anything else?” he asked.
“You’re not allowed to take a mistress, or if you do take one, then I want a mister, or a male equivalent, and you can’t kill him.”
“Not happening.”
“Then you don’t get to have a mistress,” Adele said.
“Fine, as long as you keep me satisfied in bed, I don’t see a reason for me to go out hunting for a woman I don’t need.”
He watched her lips press together. She looked so cute when she was trying not to lose her temper, and he had a feeling he’d pissed her off a few times already.
“Is that all?”
Adele opened her mouth and closed it.
“Do you really think you’re going to be able to keep it in your pants?” she asked. “Can you have it drawn up that the moment you take a mistress, I get a full payout and a divorce?”
“You’ll never get a divorce,” he said.
She growled. “Then fine, if you screw another woman, I get to have another man?”
“No.”
“I’ll make your life miserable,” Adele said.
“No, you won’t.” He pressed the tips of his fingers together and watched her. She looked so adorable. “Adele, I will not take a mistress, I will not cheat on you. I take my vows seriously. Providing you keep me happy, fuck me regularly, we’re going to be just fine.”
“And if I don’t want to fuck you?” she asked.
He noticed her cheeks going a beautiful shade of red. “Are you a virgin?”
“Will it stop you marrying me if I wasn’t one, or was one?” Adele asked.
Enzo didn’t know if she was or not. She was being quite evasive, and cute. He rather liked it. Sitting back in his chair, he looked at her. He hadn’t asked Hank of her virgin status, because he didn’t think it was that important. Now, as he watched her, he didn’t like the hit of jealousy he got at thinking of another man touching what belonged to him.
Adele was his, no one else’s, but did it matter to him if she’d been with someone else first? It did, just a little, which was complete bullshit, because he was far from a virgin. He’d enjoyed many women in his time. He wasn’t lying to Adele about that. Enzo wouldn’t go finding other women to fuck, not when he had Adele. He had a feeling she was going to be a handful.
“It wouldn’t matter if you were or not. This marriage is going to happen. You’ll be my wife, but I think it would be the right thing to tell me if you’re a virgin or not.”
Adele smiled. “Well, I guess you get to find out on our wedding night, if I am or not.”
Enzo didn’t mind the challenge. Did she not realize that the snarkier she was being with him, the cuter he found her. No, not cuter, sexy.
He loved that she bit back.
Their marriage was going to be fucking hot.
Chapter Five
Adele was a virgin, but Enzo didn’t need to know that. He was already getting everything he wanted and she was … well, she didn’t know what she was or wasn’t getting.
Yes, she was getting married, and her home would remain hers, but other than that, her whole life was going to change. It had already changed. Enzo had gone with her into work, where she had to hand in her immediate notice of resignation. This was part of Enzo’s deal. He’d leave them all alone and allow Bishop to keep his bar, but she had to quit work. This was hard.