ISMERALDA 
 
His tongue trailed down her mouth to her neck and she drew in a sharp breath.  
“I need you to relax, Angel. Focus on the pleasure I am about to give you.” He whispered in her ear and bit it softly.  
She raked her fingers through his hair and did as he told her. She pushed everything out of her mind and focused on the feeling of his tongue on her skin.  
His lips left her neck and went all the way down to where her breast was. He took one of her breasts in his mouth and sucked it causing a moan to escape from her mouth. He bit her nipples slowly and that caused another sharp moan to escape her mouth. She could tell that he enjoyed the sounds that came from her because he became more thorough. While his tongue and his teeth attacked one of her breasts, his hand was on the other one, squeezing it, pinching her nipples, and playing with them. She had never experienced such a feeling like this and she had a feeling that he had only begun with her.  
His lips left her breast and trailed down to her belly button where he sucked and licked it, causing another wave of ecstasy to wash over her. 
The heat between her legs increased and it throbbed, begging for attention.  
Adriano looked up and her and smiled. “Now, Darling, this is where it gets interesting.” He said with a mischievous smirk on his face.  
He began to pull off her panties slowly which was the only piece of clothing left on her body. Once they were fully pulled off, he spread her legs open and her heart started to pound because she was scared. She still wasn’t ready to have him in her so she wondered what he wanted to do to her.  
He looked up at her and he must have seen the fear in her eyed because he said, “Don’t worry, it’s not what you think. There will be time for that another time.” He said and she sighed in relief.  
“Wow, you are beautiful everywhere.” He said looking at her snatch. “And you are so wet and so ready.” 
“Remember, don’t think of anything. Focus on the pleasure I am going to give you.” 
Without waiting for a response, he lowered his mouth to her snatch and started to lick it slowly, she arched her back as the feeling started to spread all over her body.  
He slipped a finger into it and started to move it rhythmically with his tongue. She grabbed his hair and moaned loudly.  
He quickened his pace which increased the intensity of the ecstatic feeling in her body and she began to moan his name.  
That must have spurred him on because he started to eat her out viciously. Before she knew it, a powerful feeling of pleasure washed over her and she screamed with delight.  
She expected Adriano to stop but he kept going over and over till she had orgasmed three more times.  
He finally removed his finger from he and straightened. He licked his fingers clean of her juice.  
She lay panting breathlessly. She closed her legs slowly and breathed out a sigh of relief when the moment had passed.  
“How was that?” He laid next to her and asked.  
“It was really good.” 
“See, and there will be more. This was only a preview.”  
“Well, I can’t wait to do more.”  
Adriano simply nodded to that and said, “You must be tired, go to sleep.” 
She wanted to ask him if he would hold her while she slept but then the words got stuck in her throat. She didn’t want to ruin the feeling that she had just experienced with the bitter feeling of rejection.  
And she was indeed very tired and within only but a few moments, she had fallen asleep.  
 
~*~*~*~ 
ADRIANO 
 
After she had fallen asleep, Adriano sat up in his bed just watching his wife sleep. She looked so peaceful. That was how her life was supposed to be life, peaceful.  
All he did was have just a taste of her but he felt as though he had already unleashed part of his darkness on her.  
If she knew what he was really like with women and the things he liked to do to them, would she still want him to touch her?  
She wouldn’t understand that everything about his life had been designed under torture and pain and that included sex too.  
It was inevitable that anyone who got close enough to him would be infected too.  
That was why he never let anybody close enough to let them see the things that he hid in the deepest parts of him.  
That was why he had been so opposed to their marriage in the first place because he didn’t know how to cope with sharing his life with another human being.  
Ismeralda may believe that she knew everything about the Mafia but she didn’t know a single thing about them. The only things she knew were what her father and the rules of the Cosa Nostra would allow her to know.  
She didn’t know the things that a man had to go through to be a made man and worst she had no idea of what you had to do to become the next Capo of the Lato Oscuro.  
Things that will shape your life into a big black pit with no other way out.  
Ismeralda, although born into a mafia family was not and could never be part of the mafia. So, there was no possible way he could explain to her why he was the way he was and she would understand.  
He had just opened the door of sex between them and that was how he would leave it. There would be nothing more than that between them. He couldn’t love her because he had lost his ability to love a long time ago.  
He didn’t even know the meaning of love or how it felt to love so why bother trying. And one thing he couldn’t do was pretend to love her because that would just be so much worst for her and for him.  
The best thing he could do for her and for himself was to keep her at a distance and hope that she would get used to the fact that she wouldn’t have her fairytale marriage with him.