Chapter 41

**Lily**

My alarm clock woke me up the next morning after I slept like a baby. I reached out my arm to my side, but I didn’t find anyone there. I don’t hear the shower running either. I sighed and rolled myself out of bed. I got dressed and walked to the kitchen, where I saw the coffee ready with a note stuck to it.

*‘Need to take care of business. Will pick you up at 6PM on Friday.

Looking forward to seeing you again. Love, M’*

I smiled when I took the note off the coffee and held it close to my heart for a second. Too bad Friday meant I would still be without him for a few days. The memories of yesterday would be enough to keep me going for a bit. Up to the office it is!

I admit I had been hiding in my office the last few days, desperately trying to avoid Simon and Tommaso who were now running the show in the bank. For some reason, they had left me alone for most of the time. I didn’t understand why, but I wasn’t complaining about that.

Walking to the coffee machine on the department floor was different than before. It was eerily quiet these days, people were ducking down whenever they spotted Simon, appearing to be busy. No one was speaking openly, and people feared what would be next. Simon handled the employees with a reign of terror, that much was clear by now.

I held my head down walking back to my office with my coffee, eyes looking at the floor, when I heard him roar over the entire floor.

“Lily! My office. Now!”

Damn it! This wasn’t supposed to happen, he was supposed to ignore me forever. Like that was going to happen. I turned around and walked to his office reluctantly. I felt my heart jump to my throat and beating faster. Even my hands were getting sweaty, while a shiver was running down my spine.

“Sit down.”, Simon said when I entered his office. I walked to the chair opposite his desk and put my coffee on the desk. I kept my head held high, to at least pretend to be confident. Out of the corner of my eyes I spotted Tommaso coming out of the shadows and standing to the side of the room.

Simon took my coffee and drank it all. The bastard. He leaned back in his chair, while he put his fingers against each other in front of his belly. He definitely looked the part of a criminal.

“So, glad to see you back in the office, Lily.”, he said. The venom practically dripped from his voice when he said my name. In my eyes this man just changed from a normal old man to a monster from a horror movie.

“What do you want from me?”, I asked him, trying to hide the tremble in my voice that would tell them I wasn’t as confident as I wanted them to think. Simon chuckled at my question.

“You know what we want.”, Tommaso answered, as he walked to me. He stopped in front of me, and with his finger under my chin he made me look up to him. The smile on his face was vicious, and the kind man I had known was gone completely.

“I don’t know.”, I said again. Technically true, though I had a pretty good idea of what they wanted. Just no one had ever been specific about it.

“Don’t mess with me, you know what will happen if you do.”, Tommaso spoke in this deadly calm voice that made me shiver.

“You will make sure that MarBruno can do whatever they want with their money. It’s theirs to begin with, right?”, Simon said wickedly. The old man was scary as hell.

“There will be none of that flagging to regulators. 1 word and…”, Simon said, while his hand made a horizontal line across his throat. Yeah, I get it. You will kill me. I nodded meekly.

“We are watching you, Lily, so don’t even think about it. One wrong step and you will be joining Noah.”, Simon said, and he waved his hand carelessly to let me know that I was dismissed. So, I got up and moved to the door to get out of there as fast as I could.

“Oh, Lily?”, Tommaso said, stopping me in my tracks. “One word to the Espositos and your friends die.”

It took every effort in me to walk away from there, his words shook me to my core. It was one thing to be threatened myself, it was a completely different thing to have loved ones threatened to death. I walked to my office, and only noticed how much I was shaking when I sat down. My eyes filled with tears that wanted to stream down my cheeks, and my shaking hands struggled to get a tissue out of the box.

I tried to take some deep breaths to calm myself down, but some of the tears slipped down my cheeks. It took me minutes to calm myself down, and a plan formed in my mind. I grabbed my bag and went through it to find the note Zara gave me with the information about Audrey on it. I decided to give her a call on my way home, because I didn’t want to risk Simon or Tommaso hearing me speak to her.

I was nervous to call Audrey. I had looked around so many times already to make sure no one was following me. I had even taken a different route home, which was stupid. It just made me feel better. So, I dialed the number on the note and waited for someone to pick up. It just didn’t happen. I tried again, and again, and again, but no one ever picked up. I kicked a pebble on the street to get the frustration out of my system.

Lost in my thoughts, I made my way to the door of my apartment building. It wasn’t until I got my keys out of my bag that I noticed Matteo standing there. I must have jumped in the air because the last few hours made me forget completely that he was picking me up today. Matteo just laughed at my reaction.

“Hello, bellisima.”, he said, while he took the three steps, he needed to hug me. He seemed so happy and carefree today. He was literally beaming when he looked at me and it was influencing me. In a positive way, pushing my own worries away.

“Come on up!”, I smiled and opened the door for us both.

“Did you pack a bag already?”, Matteo asked, walking into my flat. I shook my head, and Matteo groaned.

“Hey! What are you groaning for?”, I asked feeling a bit insulted and tossed a pillow to his head. I groaned when he caught the pillow simply.

“Please tell me you are a fast packer.”, he prayed jokingly. “Pack a fancy dress though, we’re having a party.”, he added seriously.

“Party?”, I turned around fast. Matteo smiled.

“Yeah, we’re having an engagement party on the estate.”, he explained. I frowned a bit, trying to remember someone mentioning they just got engaged, but it was a blank for me.

“Chiara just got engaged. I don’t think you have met her fiancé yet though.”, Matteo cleared things up for me.

“Chiara?”, I asked him, as I opened my closet. I wasn’t sure who she was.

“The doctor.”, he said, watching me as I went through my dresses. “Take the green one with you.”, he said, not giving me a choice.

It took me at most 10 minutes to pack my stuff, but Matteo was behaving like it had been 10 hours. The man was impatient and could whine like a toddler. After closing off, we got into his car and drove to his big ass house.

I walked into the house to see some of the people that I had seen before eating pizza in front of the tv.

“You want to join them for a bit?”, Matteo asked me, slipping his hand around my waist. I nodded and we walked over to the couch. I just sat down when they start groaning collectively, some of the men running their hands down their face or through their hair. Matteo asked what happened, but the response was in a secret code.

“Soccer game, Inter Milan versus AC Milan. Inter just missed a shot at a goal.”, Giulia caught me up extremely fast and offered me a slice of pizza and a beer, which I happily accepted. Very quickly, I figured out that Giulia was not a big soccer fan, but she found it entertaining to watch the guys react to it. Vita and Chiara were very much into the game. Nino didn’t really care too much about it but was here for the company. Luciano, Ennio, Renzo, and Matteo were very much into the game, but they didn’t seem to support the same team, which made it so much more entertaining to watch.

The pizza was soon replaced by bags of chips and the empty bottles of beer, by full bottles of beer. I had fun spending time like this. Casual, no obligations, and very laid back. I enjoyed seeing Matteo with his friends, laughing freely. I also liked that no matter what, he kept touching me the entire time. Most of the time, it was an innocent touch. But at times, he grazed my breasts, or ran his hand between my legs touching my pussy. No matter what, he made sure that I was constantly aware that he was close.

The game ended, which was a cue for people to go back to their own houses on the estate. Matteo and I didn’t have to go outside, so we stayed where we were. The silence between us was getting somewhat awkward.

“You want to go upstairs? We can take some drinks and food, and watch some tv there.”, Matteo suggested. I grinned.

“Like we’re going to watch tv.”, I smiled. Matteo smiled widely at my comment.

“If you’re offering…”, he chuckled, and dragged me up, into his arms. He kissed me hard. He deepened the kiss when I allowed him to. My hands running through his hair, my fingers playing with it.

“Let’s go upstairs.”, Matteo whispered hoarsely when he broke up our kiss. I nodded, panting. We kissed our way up the stairs to his bedroom, unable to keep our hands to ourselves.

The moment we had reached the bedroom and closed the door behind us, I felt Matteo tugging up my shirt and taking it off. Same with my bra and pants and before I knew it, I was standing there in my panties. I slid my hands below his shirt, and pushed it up, letting Matteo take it off. Continuing the kiss, I opened his pants, and pushed it down to the floor, letting him step out of it.

Kissing, we moved to the bed. He pushed me onto the bed on my back, while he crawled over me. He kissed my lips, my neck, down to my breasts. He kissed, licked, and sucked on my nipples, while his hand crept up my inner thigh and tickled my slit through my panties.

“Woman, you’re so wet already.”, he groaned as his fingers must feel the moist through my panties. I moaned.

“You make me this wet.”, I groaned as his lips tugged on my nipple. I tried to reach out to his dick, but he pulled away every time I did, and he kept teasing me with his tickling fingers. It didn’t take me long to get frustrated. I wanted him to add pressure, but he didn’t do that, and he didn’t let me do it myself. At last, he got enough of my attempts to either touch him or to touch myself, and he grabbed my wrists in one hand, while he searched through the side table with the others.

“Got it!”, he mumbled to himself, and he crawled back on the bed to show me the handcuffs in his hand with a wicked smile on his lips. I grinned when I remembered the last time, he tied me to the bed. Apart from the barging in of people, I remembered a lot of fun.

Matteo cuffed my wrists together and to the headboard, leaving me with very little room to move around and none to touch him. It didn’t stop me trying to drag him closer with my legs, trying to wrap them around his waist and lifting my hips to rub on his dick.

Matteo groaned. “Damn, Lily. I will tie your feet to the bed if you don’t stop this.”

His words put a visual in my head that I liked and that aroused me. I had never been very wild between the sheets, so to speak. My previous boyfriends had been very conservative in that sense, and I had assumed that that was what I liked. But Matteo was different. I didn’t want to think about where he got all his experience, but I would allow him to do with me what he wanted because it all felt so good.

His tickling continued and I couldn’t do anything by writhe under his touch. By the time I thought I was going crazy, he ripped off my panties leaving me naked below him. Next thing I knew was his dick entering me, while his fingers went to my clit. Finally, he started to rub me there with more pressure. Matteo was thrusting slow, but hard and going deep. The familiar feeling of a pending orgasm started to build in my core with every thrust he made. His fingers were relentless, and it was almost too much for me. I wanted to touch him or to kiss him, but all I could do was surrender to his delicious torture.

I moaned hard, getting closer to my climax. I heard Matteo groan loudly, knowing that he was getting closer to his release as well. I closed my eyes and arched my back into him to take his dick deeper. Suddenly I opened my eyes in surprise when I felt empty and cold. Matteo had pulled out of me and was hoovering above me, not touching me at all.

“Surely, you didn’t think it was going to be that easy, were you?”, he smirked. In a flash, he flipped me over and helped me to place my knees under me. His fingers slid through my slit and entered me antagonizing slowly. He pumped them in a couple of times before they were replaced by his dick again.

My orgasm was building up again when I felt his lubricated fingers around my asshole. I tensed when I felt one of his fingers entering there.

“Relax, bellisima.”, Matteo muttered in my neck, as he sucked on my neck. It was easy to give in to my senses when he was making me feel so good. He continued his thrusts hard and faster. It seemed as if he couldn’t control himself that well anymore. He thrusted hard, and I felt his finger slip into my ass completely.

“So tight… So good.”, Matteo groaned continuing his thrusts faster and faster. His finger in my ass went in and out slowly. It felt weird at first, but as I got used to it and I started to relax, it felt amazing! I felt full, he was filling me completely. His fingers went in and out, his hips were thrusting his dick into my pussy hard and faster every time, and I was getting lost in all sensations that he was making me feel. The pit that had been built between my legs unraveled hard and coiled through my body. I felt my toes curl and my legs shake, my eyes closed, and I threw my head back, as I arched my back into him. It was one of the best orgasms in my life.

I felt his sperm slipping out of me, so I knew he released as well. I felt a bit bad to say that I hadn’t noticed. Matteo got up on his hands and knees to free me from the cuffs.