JOHN PAUL

I walk into the bedroom and kick the door shut behind us. Stella gasps as I throw her onto the bed and looks up at me as I walk closer to her and hold her beautiful face in my hands as her hazel green eyes look up at me expectantly. 

I smile at her but then I see she's anxious with anticipation mixed in with a little fear, possibly. "Don't worry amore, I'm not going to hurt you." 

I watch as she swallows and nods. "Okay." 

I brush her lips with my thumb and I can't help but realize that despite all that she's been through and everything she's had to do over the years, she's still the same girl with a level of vulnerability and sweetness to her that I fell in love with when we were kids.

I lean down and kiss her slowly and feel her give in completely to me and I love that I can not only see what I do to her but feel it. I pull away and she keeps her eyes closed for moment before they flutter open. 

I go to my bag and pull out a tie from my bag and walk back to her. She eyes it and raises her eyebrow. 

"Are you going to Christian Grey me?" 

"Who the fuck is Christian Grey?" Not liking being compared to some asshole I don't even know. 

Stella laughs as she rises to her knees and puts her hands on my face. "Don't be jealous."

I scowl back at her, still wondering who he is. She laughs again as she looks at me. "He's a character from a book. And movie, since they made the book into a movie. He's into the whole BSDM stuff. Dom and submissive, you know?" She pecks my lips and then looks at me.

I shake my head at her, having no idea what she's talking about. 

"Anyway, proceed with your punishment, sir," Stella smiles mischievously at me and then holds her hands out to me together. I look at her hands and I narrow my eyes at her and wonder if this is something her and Sean did but I block the thought out before I get angry. 

"Turn around," I instruct her and it comes out more rough than I intended but she turns around anyway and now she moves her hands behind her back. 

"What are you doing?" I ask.

She looks over her shoulder. "You're going to tie me up aren't you?"

"No," I try to not get irritated. 

"Oh," She shrugs and then drops her hands at her sides. I take a few deep breaths to calm down and turn her around to face me. 

"Why would I do that after what you've been through? After what those motherfuckers did?" 

The look of confusion on her face softens and then she smiles before she kisses me softly. "I know you wouldn't hurt me, JP. There are certain things that trigger those memories for sure, but I don't know, I got excited at the thought you'd have your way with me, it doesn't make sense to me either but that's how I feel," She smiles shyly at me. 

I pull her into a hug. "I guess it's good to know I can do those things to you and you'd be okay with it," I chuckle. "But for now, we'll start out slow and ease into your kinky fantasy's." 

"Hey, it looks like you have ideas of your own, lover." She pulls away and her eyes are full of humor and love.

"Turn around, baby." 

"Yessir," She winks and turns around.

I reach around and use the tie to blind fold her. "Stay here, I'll be right back," I tell her. 

"Where would I go with this over my eyes, JP," She snorts and I shake my head as I walk out of the room; this is not going at all how I expected, I chuckle internally.

When I walk back in the room, I smile when I see Stella stretching alongside the bed, she still has the blindfold on but has taken off the robe. 

I shut the door and her head moves over in my direction. "John Paul?" 

"Are you expecting someone else?" 

She puts her hands on her hips. "Obviously not." 

I set what I brought with me on the nightstand. "I like what you did in the office with the music. So, let's put some on." I hit the power button on the radio system in room and connect the blue tooth for my phone to it and music starts coming through the surround sound speakers in the room. "Plus, it will muffle your screams since everyone knows how loud you can get, princess." 

I chuckle when I see she purses her lips at me.

"Ready?" I pull her forward and she stumbles slightly. 

"Whoa." 

I notice the change in her breathing as I lean in and reach around to undo the clasp to her bra. She turns her face towards mine and skims her nose against my neck. I lean back and take the bra off; I watch as her chest rises and falls quickly with her accelerated breathing. I turn her around to face the bed and bend down to whisper into her ear while I reach around and cup her full breasts in my hands; she presses herself up against me. 

"I thought about doing this to you when you surprised me; dancing in the club. And then anytime you pissed me off since that day." I bite her earlobe and she moves against me as I massage her breasts. 

"So, far I like this punishment a lot," She says breathlessly. 

"If you want me to stop at any point, tell me." 

She nods.

I gather her hair up twisting in my hand and pull her head slightly to the side as I move to her other ear. "Climb on the bed and stay on your hands and knees," She does as I say promptly. 

I brush her long hair over one of her shoulders and then trace down her spine with my fingers lightly and she arches under my touch. I palm her gorgeous ass and squeeze with both of my hands. "This ass..." I lean over the bed and lick under her ear and make my way down her back, kissing and licking her delicious skin and then couldn't help myself as I bite down on her ass. 

"JP!" She gasps as she arches her back.  

I slap her ass and she gasps loudly. I slap the other side and she arches her back from the impact. I massage that side now. I repeat the same thing and alternate between kissing her back and her neck. 

I rip the thin thong off of her and palm her wet pussy and slap my hand against it and she lets out a throaty moan and then I thrust into her.

"Oh god!" She screams out my own thought. 

I close my eyes as I feel her stretch around me in the most amazing way. I pull out slightly before I thrust into her again and she moans loudly. I focus on not losing control even though it's damn near impossible. 

I pull out again and thrust back in and slap her ass each time until I see her ass start to get pink and I pull out completely; she's close, too and whimpers from not being able to finish.

"JP!" 

"Not yet, baby."

I rub an ice cube over her ass causing her to intake a sharp breath loudly from the coldness. I turn her around and lay her back, keeping the blindfold on. 

"Raise your arms above your head," I grab my pants from the floor and her head moves to the sound of the belt sliding out. I use the belt to tie her hands above her head being careful not to do it too tight. "Keep them here, don't move them." 

"Okay." She complies breathlessly.

I grab another ice cube and bring it over one of her nipples. "Oh!" She cries out and writhes from the sensation. I cover her nipple with my mouth, feeling the coldness seep away as I move my tongue over her nipple. 

I switch sides and do the same thing and she squeezes her legs together as she moans out my name. She tries bring her arms down. "Uh, uh keep them up, amore." 

I move the ice cube over her chest and my mouth follows the down the wet trail. 

And then I bring another ice cube over her slit. "JP! I don't think I can handle it." 

"Do you want me to stop?" I pull the ice cube away as I watch her. 

She bites her lip and shakes her head. "No, it was just, a lot, but don't stop...please." 

I position myself over her. "Spread your legs, baby." 

She opens her legs wider and I kneel in between them as I trace the ice cube from her shin up her leg following behind with my mouth until I move the ice over over her clit and she gasps and bites her lip to keep herself from reacting loudly, but she says my name breathlessly. 

I lean down to lick her clit and I watch as her back arches off of the bed, her breasts rise with the movement. I hold her legs open as she writhes while I bury my face into her, but then slide my hands up from her knees up until I grab a hold of her each breast, squeezing and kneading them as I continue to eat her out. 

Her strong legs wrap around me, pulling me closer into her. "Yes, JP, don't stop!" Her legs begin to tremble and I lap her folds as an orgasms crashes over her.  I move up to loosen my belt holding her hands together quickly and plunge myself into her. I hold her as she lifts up off of the bed in a moan. 

I kiss her slowly; I wanted to savor every inch of her. 

As we continue kissing; our bodies begin the rhythmic movement, moving in sync with each other. I move my hands over her curves, squeezing and caressing everywhere. Relishing being with her again, connecting with her like this.

Stella moves under me; meeting each thrust with her hips and then she pushes against me. I slip my arm under her, pulling her tight against me, her curves meeting my own hard planes. 

We flip so she's over me and begins riding me with her hips rolling slowly but then she picks up the pace, but I don't want to finish yet and I sit up to slow her down. I kiss her neck as I pull her hair back and she continues to roll her hips over me. 

I push her back carefully. "Turn around, amore." I keep her up against me as much as I can as she moves around over me; her back facing me now as she starts moving again over my dick. She leans slightly forward and I squeeze her ass as she continues to move. I pull her back and reach around to cup her breasts. 

I move her hair to the side and bite down on her neck and shoulder as she starts to pick up the pace, but I slow her down again and pull her back. "Straighten your legs," I instruct her and we're laying on our side now as I reach around and massage her clit and she moans pressing herself against me. 

We're covered in a sheen a of sweat now and I know I'm not going to make it much longer. I move her on her stomach and spread her legs as I thrust into her. She grips the sheets on either side. "Harder!" She demands, as I reach out and interlace my fingers with hers; I thrust into her with more force, loving how she's squeezing around me as she comes and I slam into her until I fall apart inside of her and lean over her heavily.

We lay there for a few minutes trying to catch our breath. 

"Are you okay, baby?" I ask and she mumbles something. I ease myself out of her and lay next to her.

"Are you hurting?" I brush her hair away from her face and her eyes are closed. 

"No, I'm good," She says still breathing heavy. "I'm really thirsty, though." 

I chuckle and lean over kissing her shoulder. "I'll get you something to drink." 

I head to the bathroom to clean off, when I come out to get dressed, she's still laying face down on the bed, her eyes closed with a smile on her face.

When I come back Stella is walking out of the bathroom in her robe. Her hair is a wild mess and I love it and love it even more that she didn't even try to fix it. She smiles at me dreamily when she sees me.  

"Well, I can say you followed through, John Paul and you thoroughly fucked the hell out of me." 

I kiss her head. "Here's your drink." 

She grins when she sees the cranberry juice I brought her. "You remembered," She takes a long sip.

"I remember everything about you, amore," I tell her as I brush some of her wild hair back. She smiles at me before she finishes her favorite juice.

She pulls me into the bed, "Come snuggle me."

I lay down and she lays over me. "I missed this sound so much." She says quietly. I squeeze my arms around her. 

"Tell me about Italy." 

"What do you want to know, princess?" 

"Everything." She moves her head and rests her chin on my chest to look at me. 

"I don't remember the first few months, since I was in a hospital recovering. Jimmy had his fun torturing me and it took a while for the wounds on my back to heal. Melanie and the kids were a mess with what happened to Tobias. But Santino and Isabella really stepped up to help. Isabella held it together for a while before her own grief took over and she went into a deep depression and she was desperate for us to find you." 

"Vito made sure we were all taken care of. He was certain you were alive and we would find you, but he wanted me to focus on getting better," I tell her. "Melanie and Isabella bonded really quickly. We had the kids going to therapy and Marco and Carmen started training. Things got a little better when little Tobin was born, but it was also really hard on Melanie. But Tobin seemed to provide healing for all of us." 

"After I was cleared from the doctors; we started to really focus on finding you. We had a few leads on Cristian but they all lead no where and the same with Enzo, Joey and Annalisa. But we couldn't find anything on you until one day after we had already been in the states for a little over a year I had visited one of the clubs I owned and I saw you." 

"It was like a dream seeing you, but I wasn't sure it was you. But now I know it was you," I smile at her and she smiles back at me. "And then the car accident happened and the rest you know." 

"What about you? Where did you go after the gathering?" 

"Well, you know Enzo and Joey came and saved Annalisa, Topo and Sam. When I met up with them, Enzo said we needed to separate. That was really hard for me, separating from Annalisa. And Topo and Sam."

"Then I discovered I had a stowaway in the car," Stella chuckles, "Lucy." 

"You didn't know her before that?"

"No, we all did. We just hadn't seen her for a while after this group of fighters from the underground fight club attacked us one night and she took a beating."

"I tried leaving her in Chicago, but then I had this feeling in my gut that I couldn't leave her behind." Tears come to her eyes as she looks at me. "And I'm so glad I went back for her." 

"We headed west and backtracked a little before we stayed in California for a couple of months, that's where I met Tej, by the way. Then from there we travelled to different parts of Europe and Asia before settling in Hawaii for a while; that's where we met the twins." She tells me how the twins were attempting to rob the gas station she and Lucy had stopped at.  

"And then we moved to Miami. Tej helped in tracking Gio and we learned he owned After Dark, only I didn't find out until a few months later that you or Johnny had bought it out from Gio. The day before we were supposed to fly out to New York, Alfonso attacked us. Enzo, Joey and Topo came to save us; they had found me," She wipes fresh tears from her eyes.

"I'm sorry for everything that happened, Stella," I wipe more tears away. 

"I'm sorry, too," She sniffles. "I should have tried harder to work things out with you and Timo." 

I pull her in closer. "Timo loved you and even though you didn't get a chance to tell him, he knew you loved him, too. Let's not focus on the past, amore. After all this time, we are finally together."

"You're right, I don't want to dwell on the past." She turns into me and kisses my chest. She asks me more questions about the business, both the legitimate and the underground world. She comments here and there or hums in response every now and then. 

"I was serious before, Stella, I don't want to you rush into a decision about what you want to do. If you say the word, I'm prepared to walk away with you and the kids right now. Adonis is ready to take over if necessary. But if this is what you choose, I will always fight for you and what you want and I will do everything in my power to keep you and the kids safe." 

She doesn't say anything. 

"Baby?" 

I angle myself to look down at her and see she's asleep. I lean down to pull the cover over us. I smile when she stirs and mumbles in her sleep, holding me tighter. I love the way her body molds against mine so perfectly. 

As I inhale her scent deeply, I vow within myself to always be worthy of her love and her faith in me, in us, every day.