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He began laughing hard with me looking at him in absolute bafflement. "Oh, shut up!" His intoxicating laugh scattered out, forcing a snicker out of me. "I was talking about the scratch marks on your back."

"Yes, you did that." He sighed and looked up. "Along with my back, you scratched my icy heart too and it really hurt." His puppy dog eyes gazed back at me as he laid his hand on his chest. "Alas! The painful shit I have to endure for you."

I rolled my eyes at him. "I was in more pain than you at that moment and I needed to dig my nails into something, so your back was the best place. Don't pretend like you didn't love it." I smirk and maneuver under the freezing water that felt too cold without his warmth to nurture me. Closing my eyes, I let the miniature waterfall engulf me whole, but I could still sense his grinning presence in the bathroom. "Now you're the one making me insecure and uncomfortable, so leave."

"You're definitely going to be the death of me, my love." He laughed and left me in my chaotic and tingly thoughts.


Adjusting the netted white collared top that had flowers stitched throughout, I slide the creme pencil skirt up my smooth legs and over my bum, disregarding the panties that I decided to not wear. Leo deserved a little teasing that I'm sure to give him today.

After getting all decked up in the outfit he left on the bed for me along with the diamond earrings, I walked out the room and down the hall, descending the steps and looking for Mr. Pepperoni. Faint smell of pancakes and maple syrup wafted up my nose and pulled me into their direction. A plate with smooth, mouth-watering pancakes was placed on a round table that was situated out the sliding glass doors and on the deck.

"I wish you looked at me the way you're looking at that pancake right now. Like, you're about to fuck it the death." He laughed and came up behind me, pecking me on the cheek and escorting towards the food.

"I did look at you like that, but it just made you insecure and uncomfortable if I remember," I fire back and nonchalantly take a seat. "So, now I'm going to fuck these pancakes up and deep throat them." Winking at him teasingly, I tried to stifle the laugh that wanted to break through looking at his shocked, yet amused face as he sat across me with his body leaning back in the blue cushioned patio chair. "Maybe I'll swallow them or possibly even choke on them."

"Oh God!" Leo let out a belly laugh, his head cocking back and the corner of his eyes wrinkling up while I shove my face into the heavenly pancakes. It's been too long since I enjoyed them. Where have you been, my loves? "Why haven't I ever seen this dirty side of you before? I wish I didn't comment on the pancakes because I have an unnecessary boner now."

"Mmmmm," I moan as I take another bite of the fluffy goodness with extra syrup lathered over it. My eyes played with his while my thumb wiped away a stray droplet of syrup that cascaded down the edge of my mouth and sucked on it slowly, teasing the man in front of me. "So good."

"You're killing me," he frustratedly groaned and looked away before returning his gaze to me. I snickered and continued eating.

After a few minutes of him just watching me eat silently, I break the awkward quietness. "Why aren't you eating?"

"I ate when I left this morning, so I'm not hungry," he replied calmly with his one hand on his thigh and the other under his jaw. "I just thought of something, tell me if it's good."

"Okay," I mumbled with my stuffed mouth. Caring if I looked like a starving dog that hadn't eaten in a week was the least of my worries. The only thing I wanted to satisfy right now was the belly monster that wasn't fed since yesterday morning.

"Is your name Ariel because I think we mermaid for each other." He laughed and made me choke on my food.

"Don't," I coughed out and patted my chest while he literally sunk to the floor laughing. "Say that again and we are definitely not mermaid for each other."

"I couldn't help it," his cackles simmered down as he wiped away the non-existent tears from his eyes. "I had to do it."

"You know what?" I gulped my orange juice down as I finished the last of my pancakes. "I got one too."

"All ears." He rested his chin on his knuckles while tipping his body forward to hear what I had to say.

I cleared my throat and began. "Are you Italian because I want a pizza that ass."

"Well, you got it," he stood up laughing and leaned over the table to kiss me as I just kept cracking up at myself. "You can have a pizza this pepperoni ass anytime you like." I clutched my belly as a wave of cackles approached me, cracking my laughs up.

"I can't deal with you," I snorted out and continued my giggle fest when he chuckled and grabbed his glass to drink the orange liquid from.

"It's tr..." his blaring phone interrupted us, halting our bellowing laughs. "Hold on a second," he said to me and turned around to receive the call. "Mike," he spoke into the phone and sipped on his juice followed by a haunting minute of absolute silence on Leo's end until he erupted. "What the fuck do you mean?" His hold broke the glass in his hands making them bleed instantly.

Jumping out of my chair, I rushed to his side with an unknown fear lingering in my heart when he roared. All the joy I was experiencing a moment ago drained away and swept into the ground. His knuckles turned white due to the suffocating grip on the phone before he threw it to the floor, breaking it on immediate impact. "Calm down and tell me what's wrong." My eyes welled up as they stared at the glass shards penetrating his palm.

"Someone took her."

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