Desired Too (34 page)

“Let me have your keys,” Angel ordered.

Darrell fished out his keys and handed them to Angel.

“Do you have what I need inside?” When Darrell nodded, Angel added, “I’m going to take Raquel somewhere safe, either to my father’s house or her father’s. While I’m gone, one of you find out why Ducci just declared war. And how in the fuck did they know where I live.”

Darrell and Hugo looked at each other and then Darrell asked, “Are you sure it was his men in the truck?”

“Yes,” was Angel’s only reply.

“What about Stretch and Adriano? Do you think they were working for Ducci?”

“No, I don’t, but I have an idea who is.” Angel didn’t elaborate but it looked like Darrell and Hugo knew who it was.

Angel snapped the silence between the men by barking more orders to his men, set an appointment with his lawyer for tomorrow, then headed to the suburban parked a little way up the street.

Angel tossed me the keys. “Drive.”

“Where to?” I asked as I caught the keys.

“Head to your father’s house. I’ll get someone sitting on his house to make sure you’re safe.”

“I doubt anyone would go all the way out there to his place just for me. I’m nobody.”

We climbed into the truck and Angel said to me, “You’re not a nobody, Raquel, in my eyes or anyone else’s.”

Angel and I stared at each other, and I could feel my heart starting to race as the adrenaline continued to pump inside me.

“Drive,” he said finally, and I obeyed.

I drove in silence, trying to concentrate on the road and not on the countless calls he made on his cell. He spoke freely, mentioning going to war, how bodies would be dropping like flies, about a meeting he was having that night, and how retribution was evident.

Seeing all the violence that day, listening to him talk about more violence to come, really started to bring everything home for me. This was his life. Was I ready for it?

What if one of those bullets that flew through the house had hit me? From what I could gather, the ones that hit the apartment and had us pinned behind the car were from the Ducci guy. What beef did he have with Angel? Was it over? What if Tiko, Stretch and Adriano hadn’t shown up when they did? Even though two of the three were there to kill Angel, still I couldn’t help but wonder.

I could be dead right now.

The blood.

The bullets.

The bodies.

“Oh, God!” fell from my lips as reality of what happened and what could’ve happened sunk in.

I looked at my shaking hands and I started to see all the blood that I saw in my mind’s eye.

I thought it was on my hands, and I freaked out. I let go of the wheel and shook my hands.

“I’ll call you back.”

I looked over at Angel.

“Hey.” He smiled and placed a hand on the back of my seat. “You were amazing back there.” He chuckled and shook his head. “I couldn’t follow the shit you were saying to the cops, but thank you for trying.”

“I was trying to stall,” I breathed out.

Angel stroked my cheek softly with his fingers. “I know. Thank you for that.”

I shook my head. “Angel,” I could feel myself losing it. My breath started picking up, my heartbeat and blood pressure was going out of control.  My whole body was beginning to shake.

“Don’t, baby…” he started to say, but I was already there.

Tears started falling from my eyes. “Junior…”

He nodded. “I know.”

“Tiko… all that… blood. Angel, I killed…”

When we came to a stop light, Angel took off his seatbelt and moved closer to me. When his hand touched the back of my neck, I closed my eyes and tried to take a deep breath, despite the feeling of having a three-hundred-ton elephant on my chest.

Angel placed his right hand against my left cheek and moved me slightly closer to him. He kissed my head, leaving his lips against there.

“Try not to think about it,” I heard him say against my ear and I shook my head.             

“I’m trying, except I can’t stop seeing...”

Angel turned my face toward his and lightly kissed my lips. I kissed him back desperately, trying to take my mind off seeing Tiko’s brains going everywhere.

A beep behind us caused us to break apart. I started driving through the light, turning on the service road to 95. Angel started kissing my neck, and I squirmed in my seat.

“Angel, don’t…”

He moved his lips up to my ear, but his right hand, the one that was once against my face, was traveling down between my breasts past my stomach to…

“Let me take your mind off everything, even for just a little while,” he said softly just before he plunged his fingers down my pants.

A warming sensation suddenly started to cascade through me. I didn’t know what to do. Half of me knew I should be mourning right now. I should be asking him how he’s planning to keep us safe, to keep himself safe, but I couldn’t concentrate on anything, except the sensation he was bringing to my body.

Angel brought his left hand up into my hair, giving himself autonomy over my body. He moved my head around as he continued to suck, lick and kiss my neck. A moan softly escaped my lips as I let everything go and allowed him to take me far far away from this place.

I started to pull over, but Angel said softly. “Just concentrate on driving. I’ll concentrate on everything else.”

“How can I concentrate when you’re…
Ohh myyy
...”

I tried my best to stay focused on the road in front of me. The highway wasn’t crowded. However, I still moved to the slow lane and continued to do the speed limit. The only time I swerved was exactly when I peeked.

As my heartrate started to slow, I smiled. “That was so…” I began but ended up choking on my words when Angel moved his lips to my ear.

“I’m not done.”

I looked at him and found his gray eyes set, determined and burning.

“Put the car on cruise control.”

“Put the car on cruise control?”

He chuckled and kissed me lightly behind my ear. “Yes, baby, cruise control.”

I obeyed and moved my foot off the gas. I continued to steer waiting for him to tell me what he was doing.

I didn’t have to wait too long.

He pulled his right hand from my pants, and I felt and heard him release my seatbelt.

He pushed down my sweatshirt, revealing my bare breast and began sucking it.

Goodness, I could feel my eyes starting to roll in the back of my head.

“Angel, what are you…” I started to ask, but I couldn’t get the rest of the words out of my mouth.

Angel started tugging on my pants. “Lift.”

“Lift?”

He didn’t chuckle this time. He simply started pulling down my pants, and I had no choice but to lift up.

“Do you mind telling me what you’re doing?” I asked him as he leaned over me, pulling my pants down farther.

Angel probed on the side of my chair until he found what he wanted and he looked at me as it moved back slightly.

“What are you doing?” I asked again, trying my best to still my erratic breathing.

I knew Angel could see my panic, but all he did was grin at me.

“I’m about to indulge in my favorite place on earth.”

“You’re about to indulge in…”

Yes, okay, I sounded like a broken record, but I couldn’t help it. My emotions were all over the place. I was out of control and as he pushed my legs open and swept his tongue along my swollen bud, I realized that’s exactly how he wanted me to be.

He kissed my drenched lips and said against me, “Yes, my favorite place on earth, your pussy.”

This time, as he sucked my clit, my eyes did roll in the back of my head.

I tried to keep both my hands on the wheel, but I couldn’t. I threaded my right hand through his hair and opened my legs as wide as I could as the most unbelievable sensation started to take over. This was dangerous, I knew. I was losing it, and I closed my eyes at least three times as I drove, but there was no way I was telling him to stop. If he stopped right now, I would kill him myself.

Angel, with his seat belt off, was positioned weird, and I can’t really explain it, but I’ll tell you that one of his knees was on the floor of the truck and the other sort of positioned on his seat. He was stretched over the console with one hand on the floor between my legs, bracing himself. He had his other hand on the console next to me. All I could do to make this easier for him, because that’s the kind of woman I am, was spread as wide as I could and slightly tilt my hips toward him.

Now, I was actually on the dang blasted moon. Seeing the back of this man’s head between my legs bringing me to one of the most intense, exhilarating and mind-blowing orgasms of my life had my mind, body and soul professing my life to him.

I couldn’t repeat half of the things I was telling him as he kept sucking and licking and sucking me. I was trying not to kill us but at the same time, I was losing myself in the touch of his tongue, and in the Italian he was whispering to me.

Oh, the hell with this shit….

I didn’t know how far down 95 we were, if I had missed my exit or not; I just knew I couldn’t take this shit any longer. I wanted him.

I pulled over on the shoulder of the highway. It was as large as a truck rest stop with loads of trees and shadows for me to hide in, so I headed for a spot farthest away from the highway.

Angel sat up just as I pulled off and he looked around, then at me and grinned.

Yeah, I have something for that smug grin of yours.

I threw the truck in park, kicked one of my shoes off, struggled one leg from my jogging pants and lunged for him in the passenger seat.

My body was on fire!

I gripped his shirt, then ripped it open, not caring about the buttons that flew everywhere. His smirk grew as he gripped my hair tight and pulled me to his glistening lips.

I kissed his lips, sucked his tongue and did my best not to rip his pants clear off his body.

I did manage to settle my hands and undo his belt buckle, but as I pulled down the zipper, I started feeling anxious. I couldn’t wait to get him inside me. I couldn’t wait for him to fill me.

We both moaned as he sunk deep within me. We paused for a second and just watched each other. My patience had disappeared about five miles back. I found the lever on the side of the chair and pushed it so he would fall slowly back. I didn’t think of how uncomfortable my knees were brushing up against the door and the console. I didn’t think of anyone pulling up next to us, revealing what we were doing. I didn’t care if a passersby heard me scream his name. Hell, I didn’t care if the world ended around us. As sweat poured from us both, this moment was all that mattered. Nothing else mattered, but the grip he had on my waist and the love in his eyes as I rode the fuck out of my man.

“I love you!” he exhaled softly as we came down from his first and my third intense orgasm.

I smiled as he touched both his hands to the sides of my face. He pushed back my sweat soaked hair from my face.

“I’ve loved you from the moment we met. I tried not to fall for you, but I couldn’t help it. It was that beautiful smile of yours that got me, it was this body, your confidence, your strength, your heart, how you took to life.” He caressed my lips with his thumb and smiled. “I even love this mouth of yours.”

I laughed softly.

“I love everything about you, Raquel Waters. You’re sexy, you’re beautiful, you drive me in-fucking-sane, but I know I will never be able to live without you.”

He brought my face to him and he kissed me lightly, once and then twice before he dipped his tongue in my mouth. I accepted him greedily, desiring for him to never stop holding me, never stop wanting me and, most of all, never stop loving me.

He pulled back, but kept me close to him. “I will protect you with my life. I will lay down my life for you without hesitation. I will also destroy anyone that hurts you.”

“Angel…” I whispered as he started to blur in front of me.

“No,
mi amore
, you’re my life,” he said sternly, then smirked slightly. “I would do anything for you, do you understand that?”

I looked into his dead set eyes, then nodded, “I know that you will.” I kissed him, then added, “I love you too!”

He grinned, then smacked my ass. “You will have my babies.”

I laughed and shook my head. “Will I?”

He nodded. “Yes, I say about four or five.”

“You are crazy, do you know that?”

His smile broadened, “Yes, I do. I also know you will not deny me.”

“Oh, I won’t?”

He shook his head. “No, you won’t. You will become my wife, and not long after that, you’ll be barefoot and pregnant until I run out of sperm to fill in you.”

I laughed. I couldn’t help it.

“Wow, Leo, that …um… was the sexiest, most romantic proposal I have ever heard in my life. How could I refuse?”