The Wounded Love novel Chapter 36

Dante paused and gave me the most evil smile I had ever seen. "You're desperate." He observed, his smile not wavering. "You think I'm going to lose? No, no, no, principessa, especially not after the way you teased me. I'm not going to cave so soon." He turned around and walked out of the bathroom, leaving me hot and bothered.

A few minutes after Dante left I walked out of the bathroom and back into the kitchen where everyone sat as if nothing had happened. Well Dante did wink at me but he kept his hands to himself.

"Do you guys want to do something?" Sean asked, playing with one of the cups on the table. "We are four adults with nowhere to go on Christmas Day. That's kind of sad, don't you think?"

"Well where could we go?" Jade looked up at him. "I mean, almost everything is closed... unless you want to raid Walgreens or something."

He looked down at her and laughed as if that was the funniest thing he's ever heard in his life. "That could be kind of fun but I was thinking something more along the lines of drinks at the pool." That was strictly against hotel rules but after all, he was the owner's son. "You know," He added in suddenly, his gaze glued to Jade. "You have the greenest eyes I've ever seen." They mesmerized him.

"They didn't name me Jade for nothing." She gave him a flirty smile.

"That sounds like fun, let's go." I interrupted, trying to change the subject.

"Maybe you'll fall in again." Jade joked. I rolled my eyes as everyone laughed at me.

Dante and Sean left to change into their bathing suits. Jade had brought one from home after I told her about the pool, and I put on the new one Dante had given me. We were going to meet up with them afterwards.

"Look at how slutty this is!" I exclaimed after putting on my new swim suit. My ass cheeks were half out and it made my chest look bigger.

"Your Italian sausage knows how to shop for his girl." She laughed, walking out of the bathroom in an even more revealing bikini. There was nothing to it!

"Sean is going to love that. It matches with your green eyes."

"Shut up."

"Do you know him from somewhere because that was just weird." I asked, stuffing my clothes into the bag of dirty ones. It was time to do laundry.

"No, I've never seen him before. I just thought he was hot. I mean you have to admit, he is sexy." Ah, love at first sight.

"Luke." Was all I said. "You're with Luke, a sweet, caring, and loyal man. Sean is the complete opposite, you can't go back to that."

"Ahhh!" Someone grabbed me from behind and pretended to throw me into the pool.

"You look sexy." A deep, husky voice whispered in my ear. His hands tightened around my waist. "I have good taste in bathing suits."

Jade and Sean were already in the water and were cracking up at the cruel joke Dante just played on me. I couldn't focus on them though, all I could think about was the big strong man tickling my skin with his string of Italian words. I didn't understand any of it but I liked the way it sounded.

I pressed by butt into his nether regions and felt him against me. His laugh rumbled through the both of us. "I don't like being teased." Dante pulled us over to a corner so that they couldn't hear us.

I turned around to face him and said, "No, you just like to do the teasing."

"I don't recall grabbing you. It was just some light touching."

"I don't really have anything that you could grab." His eyes landed on my chest. I rolled my eyes and instead asked, "Well who said I played fair?" I then began to walk my fingers down his perfectly sculpted stomach until they hit the hem of his bathing suit, which by the way, also hung down very low.