Heavy Crown: A Dark Mafia Romance (Brutal Birthright Book 6)
Heavy Crown: Chapter 9

The next time I see Yelena, she insists that I meet her at a movie theater on Bristol Street.

She’s already inside the theater when I get there, sitting all the way in the back row of a throwback showing of The Grandmaster. Because it’s the middle of the day, only three or four other people are scattered through the seats, none close to us.

Her face looks paler than ever in the flickering light from the screen. She looks tense and frightened, her eyes large and dark in her drained face. I’m hit with a pang of guilt. The night I met Yelena, she looked as powerful as a Valkyrie. But the stress of our relationship has taken a toll on her.

I sit down next to her, putting my arm around her shoulders and kissing her.

“How are you?” I ask her.

Without any preamble, she says, ”I’m afraid my father is about to replace out what we did.”

“What do you mean?”

“When I came home last night, Rodion was waiting. He . . . I think he noticed something.”

That doesn’t make any sense to me. What could Rodion have noticed, besides maybe some messy hair?

“Are you sure?” I say. “No offense, but that sounds a little paranoid.”

Yelena presses her pale lips together, looking down at her hands twisted in her lap.

“Trust me,” she says quietly. “He knows. And if he knows, it’s only a matter of time until he tells my father.”

She’s upset, and whether she’s right or not, I can’t bear to see her like that.

I squeeze her tighter and I say, “Yelena, you don’t have to worry about anything. You and I are going to be together, do you understand that? Whatever your father says, whatever my family says, I don’t give a fuck. I want you, and only you.”

Yelena looks up at me, her eyes wide and pleading.

“You promise me Sebastian? We’ll be together no matter what?”

“Yes, of course,” I say. “I promise.”

I see bright tears sparkling in the corners of her eyes, but as always, she’s too stubborn to let them fall.

Instead she just kisses me.

Then she drops her head to my lap and starts to unbutton my jeans. I’m about to stop her, because I don’t want her to feel like she has to do anything for me when she’s obviously upset. But she’s already pulled out my cock and closed those gorgeous full lips around the head. With that one motion, all conscious thought leaves my body.

As soft as Yelena’s mouth is when pressed against mine, it’s infinitely softer while licking and sucking the most sensitive part of my body. She runs her tongue around the head of my cock, right under that responsive ridge of flesh that separates the head and the shaft. She sucks on the head, and then she relaxes her jaw to let more and more of my cock slide into her mouth, all the way back to her throat.

The sound of her mouth moving is drowned out by the theater speakers, but it’s a lot harder for me to keep quiet. I lean my head against the back of the seat and close my eyes, trying hard to stop myself from groaning.

Yelena is using her hand and her mouth, moving them simultaneously up and down my shaft, so that her hand squeezes harder than her mouth can do, and her mouth provides that delicious, warm, slippery sensation second only to her pussy.

I stroke my fingers gently through her hair, feeling like I’m floating on waves of bliss. The part of the movie is playing where a woman and a man encounter each other in the snow next to a moving train. The flickering light, the drifting snow, and the ethereal music all combine with the sensation of Yelena’s mouth, until I feel like the movie screen is permeable, and I’ve fallen right through it. I’m transported.

The best part about a blowjob is that you don’t have to work toward a climax. You don’t have to hold back or try to time to anything. You just lay back and let it happen.

When I can feel myself getting close, I squeeze Yelena’s shoulder to let her know, so she can finish with her hand if she wants to.

Instead, she redoubles her pace, bobbing her head up and down on my cock, letting my cock hit all the way at the back of her throat so it feels like bottoming out.

This feels so fucking good that I have to grit my teeth together to keep from moaning. I’m squirming in the tiny theater seat, feeling like this constricted space can’t possibly contain the volume of pleasure I’m experiencing.

My balls are boiling. With one explosive contraction, I feel the cum rocketing up through my cock and spurting into Yelena’s mouth. She keeps sucking, a sensation that is exquisitely intense in the midst of climax. She’s sucking out the cum, she’s licking under the head of my cock, and I’m fucking dying of enjoyment, feeling a level of deep, endless satisfaction that washes away every other care.

When she’s finished, she sits up and wipes her mouth on the back of her hand. I don’t have to clean up, because she’s licked me completely clean.

I’m feeling so good that I want her to feel the same thing. I want to melt away her fear and stress, and show her that I’ll do anything, anything at all for her.

But when I go to kiss her, and I try to touch her like she touched me, she stops me with a hand on my chest.

“I can’t,” she says. “I don’t have time. I have to get back.”

“When can I see you again?” I ask her.

“I don’t know,” she says unhappily.

“I don’t want to sneak around,” I tell her. “I want to make a formal agreement between our families. So your father knows I’m serious.”

“Really?” Yelena says. The relief on her face is palpable. “Will your family agree?”

I think about Dante, gone to Paris with the love of his life, and Nero, immersed in his plans for financial domination on an unprecedented scale, and Aida, whose husband is about to run for Mayor of Chicago.

They’re too busy with their own concerns to care what I do. It’s down to my father. I don’t think he’ll oppose me—not in this. After all, he gave Aida to our most hated enemy, so he’s willing to make deals. And his own match to my mother wasn’t strategic, so he knows what it feels like to fall in love.

I kiss Yelena again.

“They want me to be happy,” I say.

She buries her face against my chest for one last moment. Then she hurries out of the theater, to go back home to her father’s house.

I hate to let her leave all on her own. I hate to let her go back there.

As much as I tried to reassure her, I am afraid of what Alexei Yenin might do to her. Which is why I need to get her away from him as quickly as possible.