More Than This by Dominique Wolf

CHAPTER 62:

Giovanni

“O

kay, come on baby, we're here now,” I said to Isabella as she leaned against me, using me for support.

Reyna kept the shots coming and she and Isabella didn't stop. Between all the dancing and laughing, they were downing the shots and I knew it was time to go when Isabella looked up at me with those doe eyes of hers and that goofy smile she always got when she had too much to drink. I opened up the door to our hotel room and we stepped inside. Isabella let go of me and strolled into the room. I closed the door behind me and watched as she stumbled her way to the couch. She was definitely intoxicated but she had a good time and that was all that mattered.

I walked over to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of water, handing it over to her. She kicked off her shoes and took the bottle from me.

“You need to drink all of that,” I instructed.

“And what if I don't?” she mumbled, a small smile playing on her lips. “Are you going to make me?”

I smirked. “You're a big girl, you can handle yourself.”

“I am a big girl,” she announced. “That is quite correct young sir.”

She opened the bottle and brought it to her lips. She downed about half of it before placing it on the coffee table in front of her. She leaned back against the couch and looked over at me, a naughty look spread across her face.

“What are you thinking about?” I said as I removed my suit jacket and placed it on the chair in the corner.

“You look fucking sexy right now.”

I couldn't help but smile. Whenever she was drunk, she got wildly turned on and her mouth ran away with her. It was like a switch went off in the back of her mind and she couldn't hold back her true desires.

I sat down next to her. “Is that so?”

She tugged at her lip and nodded. She left her hair loose for the rest of the evening since I undid it earlier and now a couple of strands were hanging in front of her face. I reached out and slowly placed it behind her ear. I watched her watch me as I did that and noticed the change in her breathing. Her eyebrow lifted next the way it always did when she saw something she liked. She flicked her eyes to meet mine before they wandered down to my lips. I could feel the heat inside of me start to spread at the sight of her. She looked fucking hot right now and I was dying to have her again.

“Tell me what's on your mind, Isabella.”

She shifted closer to me, the material of her dress moving to expose her leg through the slit. I reached out and placed my hand on her knee. She glanced down at my hand before her eyes met mine again with a hungry desire that mirrored my own.

“I'm thinking that we're alone in a hotel room.”

“We are.”

“And I could think of a few things we could do to entertain ourselves,” she murmured.

“Oh?” I lifted my eyebrow. “Do tell.”

She couldn't hold back the smile that played on her lips. The happiness radiated off of her and I had never seen her look more beautiful.

“I'm surprised you have any more energy left after earlier,” I commented.

“I can't believe we had sex in a barn.” Her hands covered her mouth as she giggled.

“Technically, it was in someone's office,” I corrected playfully.

“We seem to have a thing for offices.”

I giggled, thinking back to the time we had sex in someone's office at the Christmas party. When I wanted her, I had to have her and I didn't care where we were. Thankfully, she was crazy enough to go along with my spontaneity. I knew she loved it as much as I did.

“As much as I'd love to take you right now, I actually think we should order you some food.”

Her eyes widened. “Yes! Food - I could so eat right now.”

I chuckled and reached for the phone that was placed on the table next to the couch and lifted the menu next to it.

“Pizza or a burger?”

“I could eat both right now,” she admitted.

I laughed and dialed reception. “Hola - could I please get one small margarita pizza and one of your burger combos with chips sent up to room 205.”

She was nodding her head and smiling at my mention of chips. Drunk Isabella could eat her way through a buffet and I thoroughly enjoyed watching her enjoy some good food. Whenever she was enjoying what she was eating, she would do this little dance as she chewed and it always made me smile. Simple things made her happy and I was happy to be one of those. I thanked the lady on the other line and disconnected the call. Isabella shifted closer to me and rested her head on my chest. I wrapped my arm around her and pulled her closer to me.

“You said you wanted to marry me tonight,” she mumbled playfully.

“Did I?” I joked. “I think you're making that up.”

“I'm - I am n-not,” she slurred and looked up at me. “You, technically, said it. I heard you.”

I leaned down to kiss her forehead. “Maybe I did.”

“You did,” she repeated and smiled. “Do you remember when we first met?”

“How could I forget?”

I was supposed to be working that evening. We had hired new bouncers and a new bartender on a trial-period basis as per Alvaro's suggestion. Penelope was already pregnant at the time and running Mala Mía had become my main responsibility. Sergio invited me to join their table that evening and so after putting our manager at the time in charge, I was technically off-duty. I'd never forget when I first saw her. She was a new face to me and I was immediately intrigued. She was the kind of woman that wouldn't expect to get noticed in a crowd but I did. I noticed her with her youthful innocence and contagious smile. She had a more reserved demeanour to her in comparison to someone like Reyna but that's what drew me in. Who was this beautiful stranger that stumbled into my club?

“Reyna dared me to have a one-night stand with you,” she said.

“She did?”

“Well, technically she dared me to have a one-night stand with anyone,” she explained. “But that wasn't why I did it.”

“So, why did you do it?”

“Because no one has ever made my body feel the way you did. You had such an effect on me from the first moment we met.” She flicked her eyes to meet mine. “I remember thinking how fucking hot you were.”

I chuckled.

“And I even went as far as thinking about what it would be like to Netflix and chill with you.”

This made me laugh again. “Well, you and I do plenty of that now.”

She smiled with a happiness that reached her eyes.

“I hate to have to be the one to tell you but you failed at having a one-night stand,” I said.

“Can you blame me?” She lifted an eyebrow playfully. “You just knew what to do to my body.”

I leaned closer to her neck and rested my lips against it. “And I still know.”

“I tried to fool myself into thinking it could be something casual,” she explained. “But I quickly learned that I had to have more.”

“And you have it, mi hermosa. You have me and you have my heart and that's never going to change.”

She reached up and brought her lips down to mine, smiling against them. I wrapped my arms around her and wondered how I ever got so lucky.

Isabella Avery - the only woman who ever made me want more and I wanted it all with her.