Hitman’s Secret by Rosa Mink
Chapter 12
Natalia
My mind is racing wildly. My heart pounding. My breathing nearly stopped. It can’t possibly be true. It can’t possibly be over, can it? The sounds all fall away, nothing coming through anywhere and I sit, waiting for it to just be a dream.
A single shot rings out, close and I look up, spotting Marko heading my way faster than I’ve ever seen anyone move. He has a gun in his hands, and he lifts it, returning shots rapidly and I see someone fall between the slats hiding me. He doesn’t begin to slow or stop shooting and a second person falls.
I gasp when he slides in next to me, pulling me tightly up against his chest.
“Come on,” he says, his eyes showing surprise and I know it’s true as well. He killed my mother. He was the hitman who took her out nine years ago. God, he had only been my age when he did it.
I don’t argue with him, and I stay quiet as we head to the car. He sends it flying out of the area as he sets off the explosives at the warehouse, covering all tracks and taking out anyone else that might have been there to follow.
He doesn’t take us back to his place here. He puts us out onto the interstate and a little over two hours later, we’re pulling back into the mountain hideaway. I haven’t said a word yet, not since he reached me, and I know he’s worrying. This hardened man is worried I’ll leave him over my mother.
I get out of the car when he opens my door, moving into the house and head straight up the stairs towards the bedroom. I’m still wearing the protective vest and it’s heavy, weighing me down the way my mother is weighing him down I bet.
I can feel him in the doorway watching me and I take off my top, then the vest, and then my bra, leaving my upper half entirely naked as I reach for my pants. I slide both them and my undies off after kicking off my shoes and add my socks to the pile. I can feel his tension from here and I move across the room taking the door on the left rather than the one on the right that leads to the bathroom.
In an instant he’s behind me, his hand wrapping around my neck. If it were anyone else, I would be terrified right now, but Marko will never hurt me. He’s proven it to me a dozen times and now it’s my turn to prove it to him.
“Use me,” I tell him feeling the tension still inside his body as he presses all along mine. “Let it out through me.”
“No,” he utters into my ear, his breathing harsh and rapid, his other hand sliding down to my pussy, his fingers instantly diving into it making me moan.
“Yes, Marko. You need to release it, use me,” I plead, wanting it as much as I need it, as he needs it as well.
“You don’t know what you’re saying, angel,” he tells me. He already has me at the edge, and I moan unable to stop it.
“Damn it Marko…fuck me,” I cry, shaking, shattering as he curls those fingers up against my top wall, sending me into convulsions.
He turns me, pressing me into the wall. I’m anticipating the next assault, his lips, his hands, something teasing me, pushing me higher, but what I get is his hands on my face, holding me still as he stares down at me.
“Talk to me,” he demands, those gorgeous green eyes deep with worry. “I know you heard…”
“You killed my mother,” I state, and he nods. “Why?”
“She was sleeping with a man who owed Ono money, a lot of money. They would meet up away from your town, away from Berth, but Ono located her, knew she meant more to him than his wife and child did,” he answers making me laugh. “Natalia…”
“Don’t,” I tell him, lifting my finger to his lips, stopping him from saying anything else. “As much as I hated my father, I hated her more. She was an awful person, Marko. You did us all a favor killing her.”
“What?” he says, staring down at me and I can’t stop myself from telling him the truth about the woman. His anger grows with every word I utter, with every time she hit me, starved me as a little girl, and his lips take mine when I stop, kissing me softly this time and I can’t stop the tears.
He strips off and lays me down on the floor. The carpet plush and soft against my back and he slides into my body. This time he’s making love to me, completely different than fucking me and I can’t stop the words again.
