Claimed By The Mafia Don (Ariella and Asher) novel Chapter 54

Chapter 54

“I’m angry, okay?” Asher said, finally turning to face me again.

“I’m angry that you put me in that situation. I’m angry that you care so little about yourself. I’m angry that you nearly destroyed something I’ve been working so damn hard to build… for us. For you….”

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. My throat had closed up.

“And you even laughed about it too… As if the whole thing was funny to you…” He took a deep breath filled with anger.

And that’s when it started to click. It started to dawn on me-what I’d done. What I had made him do.

That day in the bedroom… How I’d tried to cross lines that maybe shouldn’t have been crossed.

How I thought it was intimacy, but to him, it was something else entirely.

It mattered to him. Deeply. More than I’d realized. I hadn’t seen it then. Not in his eyes. Not in the

moment.

But now, seeing the disappointment and hurt on his face… Hearing it in the tone of his voice…

It hit me. Hard.

I felt sick with guilt. Sick because I hadn’t even realized what I was doing. And yet, I had done it.

“I am sorry,” I told him as I tried to take his hand.

But he sidestepped me and refused to take my hand. I now realized that I had fucked up. I was so concerned about getting Asher to sleep with me that I went haywire and probably destroyed Everything.

“I am sorry,” I repeat it again. “I am sorry, Asher. I didn’t know that….”

“That I respected you? You didn’t know that I respected your parents. I thought I was proving myself to you…” He gave a sad laugh

“Why do you think I don’t want to sleep with you?”

And I opened my eyes.

“Before we are married, I mean.” He clarified when he saw the look in my eyes. ” Because I respect you and I want to do everything the right way. You think I don’t want to fuck you? I want that more than anything in the world. You think I don’t want you in my arms? You think I don’t want you beneath me? All sweaty and high, delirious, screaming my name non-stop. You think I don’t think about it?” he asked.

Then he shook his head as he went to the window looking outside.

“Because I do. I want to own you in every way that’s possible. And why do I stop? Because I respect you. I love you and I actually give a fuck.”

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I didn’t know what to say.

The only word that came to my mind, to my lips, was I’m sorry, just only words and I didn’t think he wanted to hear that again.

After a while, he turned back to look towards me and asked-

“I’m going to ask you again and don’t lie to me this time, Ariella. What happened? What was wrong? Why do you want to sleep with me so badly?”

I refused eye contact with him.

As I started twisting my hands together, playing with my fingers, I really couldn’t tell him the truth, but-

But I also knew that I couldn’t. So I just found something else.

“I’m just…” I tried to find a vulnerable place, a vulnerable deep place inside me. As I looked at my hands, the words started coming out.

“I’m just nervous… Asher”

Asher asked confused, “Why are you nervous?”

“I am nervous About our engagement. Our wedding?”

He didn’t say anything, so I continued.

“You’re just such an important person, you’re rich, you’re powerful, you’re everything a woman could want

-not to even mention in our world.”

He scoffed as if he thought I was spilling bullshit.

“And I know that I act like it doesn’t affect me, but sometimes it does, given who I am and who you are…. You’re supposed to marry someone of your stature, someone who would increase your power, and you chose me. I just… I just ask myself sometimes, why? Why did you choose me?”

I raised my head this time to look at him. He walked closer and sat next to me on the bed as he said,

“I didn’t choose you, Ariella. Our hearts chose each other. I love you. And I know how scarce that is in the world, not to mention in our world. And I’m one lucky son of a bitch. And so I don’t want to waste that. I will not play with that.” He tilted my chin so I could look up at him.

“I am real, and my love for you is real. I don’t want you to worry or even think about any of that.”

I nodded but croaked.

“But sometimes I do. Sometimes I wonder if you find me attractive at all…” I said, as my hand slowly went towards his thigh and just stayed there, all warm and comfortable and soft.

He looked at me and sighed.

“Of course, I find you attractive. Are you kidding me? How would I be in love with you and not find you

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attractive? You’re the hottest, the most sexiest woman in the world.” He kissed my chin, softly

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