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“As long as I get to play with that sweet little pussy again before you do that.” He jokes.

I laugh and he holds his playful smirk.

ACE

My body is engulfed with rage, making it hard for me to breath and keep it all choked down so Emma doesn't see the worst side of me, but it's coming. I can feel it inside of me that something has been going on for some time, and being home, I feel it deep in my bones a storm is coming, and I think Emma is why. But my plan to marry her and take over her Empire is only the half truth. We will proceed with the wedding, setting her father up to make a move, butI'll be ready. He is going to fucking pay for every fucking finger he has put on her wrongly. I don't know why this possessive wave has washed over me, but after she played her game this morning in her office, showing me her little piercing. I do believe she will be just fine handling the beast in me.

My cock twitches between my legs, thinking about taking her for the first time, but also her first time. I have to keep my dark side at bay, or maybe not?

My plan is already in action with Caz aware as he takes us to our estate to see my father, who will soon be filled in on my plan, well some of it.

I want to see what is stirring around in his head, knowing I'm going to need his help if what I think is coming, happens. I will need his help protecting Emma from what's to come, someone that is causing really big feelings inside me, and the thought of something happening to her, is ripping me apart.

EMMA

Caz enters a private estate, driving through the gate, he pulls up to the front of a house, and Ace begins to get out of the car. Reaching his hand out for me to take, he helps me out of the car then places a hand on the small of my back as we start up the stairs.

“Where are we, Ace?”

He looks down at me with a confused look before his lips part. “You've never been here before?”

I shake my head as I say. “No, can't say I have.”

“This is my family estate, where my father lives.”

I let out a huff, another thing I never knew existed, another thing my father never told me.

“We need to talk to my father in a place that's safe and with no prying eyes, so we can speak freely.”

My lips go into a straight line as I nod and we continue up the stairs, through the halls of his very large estate.

There's so many mixed emotions and nerves running through my boiling body. If my father really is up to something with the Heathens, that means he's linked to Luca somehow. But how do I come into play in this? Why all of a sudden an interest in marrying me off?

I can't get my head around it, but the words from my Pop ring out again in my head"You're the Heiress to our Empire, bosses will come to claim you, so they can take what's not theirs."

His words cause a shiver to run down my spine. My heart doesn't care about the Empire. They can have it, I'll give it to them, but now Ace is involved. I can't do that to him or his father, I have to protect what's rightfully mine.

We enter Ryan's office and I look up meetingRyan's gaze and he gives me a soft smile, a softness to him I've never seen from him before. “Are you okay, Emma?”

Furrowing my brows, since when does he show sympathy? “Yes, I'm fine.”

I sit in the chair beside Ace and Ryan immediately asks. “Are you ready to tell me what the fuck you are doing, Ace?” Ryan glares at Ace but Ace returns that glare right back. “Papa, something is brewing and we know the Heathens were after Emma the other night. They are in our casino's, running rampant in our city like rabid animals, and yet you are doing nothing.”

Ryan takes in a deep breath, before that powerful Mafia King emerges from the surface with his eyes darkening. “I'm not doing nothing. I'm quietly watching my plan come together. Now explain what you have planned next, since I helped you get Emma out of the office.”

“I am marrying Emma tonight, and taking over her Empire.” Ace doesn’t sugar coat or hold back. I listen and watch as Ryan nods with his lips forming a straight line before he says. “That can't happen.”

“The fuck it can't!” Ace growls.

“There are some things you don't know, son.”

Ace lets out a huff, as his jaw ticks, staring into his father's eyes. “Oh, I think I know you've been hiding shit from me.”

Ryan nods in agreement.

What the fuck is happening right now. What does Ryan know?

I tried to talk to you before we dropped the marriage agreement on you, but that didn't work out.