Claimed By The Mafia Don (Ariella and Asher) novel Chapter 96

Chapter 96

Ariella

I stared up at Asher as he hovered above me, and I could see that he meant every word. The only thing is, he didn’t know he was in the dark. He kept talking about the man who was going to marry me, about how he’d make him pay.

But I knew once he found out the truth, he wouldn’t be able to kill him.

He was talking about his own father.

I had an inkling… If I told him, if I said the words out loud, I felt he’d lash out. Maybe even strangle me. Do something he’d regret for the rest of his life. So I didn’t say anything.

He got off me and went into the bathroom. The sheets were still warm where he had just been. I pulled them over me, covering my naked self as the sound of the shower came on. I stared at the ceiling, blank, empty, just… thinking.

I knew that when Asher walked back out that door, I had to end this. I had to. After the things he said today, after the rage, I saw in his eyes… I couldn’t let him do what he was planning. I couldn’t be a part of it.

I had to break his heart. This had to be the last time.

No matter how much I liked it. No matter how much I enjoyed it. It had to stop. We couldn’t keep doing this. Not with who his father was. Not with my parent’s lives on the line. This couldn’t continue.

I gave myself a pep talk inside my head, forcing myself to be strong, trying to push the words to the front of my throat before he returned.

Then I heard the door creak open. He was naked, everywhere. A towel in his hand as he dried his hair, walking in with that same careless confidence that made my chest tighten. He looked at me.

I couldn’t do it. Not while he was standing there like that. I turned my gaze quickly and stared out the window.

He chuckled softly like he knew exactly what I was doing. Then I heard the rustle of fabric as he started dressing. I tried to focus on the trees swaying outside, anything but him.

Once he was done, he came toward me.

I tensed. I knew he wasn’t going to hurt me, not physically, but I couldn’t stop the reaction. I just did.

His hand went towards my head and started caressing my hair, featherlight, slowly, calmly, as he said to

me,

“I’m not gonna hurt you, Ariella. I’m never gonna hurt you. You know that, right?”

I didn’t say anything back even though I believed him. That’s when his caresses got harder as he went

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towards my face and pulled me up to watch him above me.

“Did you hear what I said?”

“Yes,” I answered, swallowing.

“I’m not gonna hurt you. I need you… I don’t know what I feel right now for you, but I do need you. I need what you can give me. I really need to keep fucking you. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get you out of my system, although I highly doubt that’s going to happen.”

I pulled my face away from him. I stared straight and said,

“We can’t do this anymore. This was the last time. Please don’t come back.”

He laughed. It wasn’t a good laugh. It was more like a condescending laugh.

“I am never not coming back here. As I told you, I’m gonna repeat myself again. I guess you were too caught up in my dick inside you to understand what I was saying, but I will repeat it for you. Look at me.”

I turned back to look at him.

“I am going to be fucking you every single day from now on, okay? So don’t tell me to not come back here because I will come back here. If you want to keep this between us, just keep your window open. But if you feel like you want to defy me, why don’t you close your window? I’ll come in through the front door. I don’t give a fuck anymore.”

“Asher, please just listen….”

“No, you shut the hell up! I loved you. I cared for you. I respected you. That’s not gonna work anymore. Will it? Because I gave you everything and you decided to leave me. So now I’m gonna treat you how you want to be treated. You want to be treated like a whore? Fine. That’s what you’re going to be for me right

now.”

“I’m sure we can…..”

“Shhhhh! Your my whore and I’m gonna make sure everybody knows. I’m gonna make sure everybody knows that you’re mine. Do you think that you’re going to be engaged? You think that you’re gonna marry somebody else who is not me?” He laughed,

“You’re delusional if you think that’s what’s happening. Because…” He paused, a chilling certainty in his voice.

“…I can promise you… I’m going to kill anybody and everybody who comes into this house and thinks that they’re gonna take you from me. Who thinks that they’re gonna own you. Who thinks that they’re gonna take you away from me.”

He shook his head, a gesture that seemed to dismiss any possibility of my resistance. As he walked away from me, he continued,

“I loved you. I wanted to give you everything. I was gonna make you my queen. I was gonna rule with you

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