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and I would sooner put a bullet in my brain than ever… ever …betray you. Do you know what the Italians call me?”
    I nodded. “The Mad Hatter.”
    He snickered. “Sometimes, but for the most part, I’m il cane del padrone .”
    I laughed. Damn it. I wanted to be serious but the look on his face as he said it was hilarious. “The master’s dog?”
    “We have three children. I’ve finally mastered Italian. I’ve personally overseen charities here and in Italy for all of them and still I’m the dog. However, it does not bother me in the least…because you are the master of me. My mind, my body, my heart. Mel, you control all of it, all the time. I can sit with them a thousand times, but at the end of the day, they still see you as their queen, Bloody Melody.” He lifted my chin up to look him in the eye. “As for Ethan, you’re right, I should have told you before, I apologize, but I cannot and will not apologize for changing our plan. He’s much stronger than even I was at his age. We wanted to wait so he could enjoy just being a kid, but he doesn’t see the world like a normal kid. He’s got his mother’s heart; what I can do?”
    I glared; I felt like he wearing me down with his words and I still wanted to be pissed at him. He hadn’t just mastered Italian, but the art of sweet-talking me too. Worst of all, he knew it, which made it all the more irritating. “Stop looking at me like that.”
    “Like what? This is how I always look at you.”
    Fuck me.
    “Give up! I give in! Happy? I’m not pissed anymore. Stop pouring butter all over me.” I groaned, resting my head on his bare chest.
    “Does my love for you embarrass you?” He laughed, wrapping me up in his arms.
    “You…shut up,” I muttered, kissing the center of his chest. “You’re making me soft.”
    “Says the woman who poisoned me five minutes ago,” he said as he undid my silk robe and pushed my nightgown off my shoulders. “The night is almost over and I still haven’t kept my promise to you.”
    My lips parted slightly at the touch of his cold hand grasping my bare breast, his thumb brushing my nipple softly before pinching tightly, a shiver going up my spine. His left hand grabbed my ass to bring me so close to him I touched his chest. I wasn’t sure if it was his skin or mine that was on fire or if we both were burning…all I knew was that I wanted him.
    Damn it. In the blink of an eye, all my anger and frustration were replaced with lust. He controlled me that much…and I wanted more.
    He leaned in, his lips hovering over my ear, softly demanding, “Get on the bed Melody.”
    Swallowing slowly, I backed away, moving around him and into our bedroom. Without a word I kneeled in the center of our bed, my heart racing with excitement. I couldn’t help the small smirk on my lips as I felt the lust radiate off his body in waves. His green eyes looked almost black in the dim light of our room. His face was only that stern when he was trying to think of either what he wanted to do to me or where he wanted to start. I took in each one of his chiseled abs until my eyes reached his pajama bottoms, which hung low off his hips.
    He came toward me silently, pushed me onto my back, and grabbed my wrist while reaching for the restraints under the bed to tie me down…both of my wrists…spreading my legs.
    I pulled on them once and it only got tighter. “There’s my former boy scout.”
    Again he was quiet, turning me on more as he went into his closet…returning with one of his ties and a whip. From my closet, he got out my vibrator. I could still remember when he first found it…the man nearly killed me. I hadn’t needed it, but every woman should have at least one. Instead of getting rid of it, he now used it to torture me.
    “Liam…” Damn it. I was getting so excited I couldn’t even speak normally anymore.
    In a second he tied his tie around my eyes, once again whispering into my ear, “I had planned to make love to you