Novels by Brie

LUCIANO Her soft plea undid the last bit of self control holding me together. The hunger tore me apart. Ripping me from inside out. It did not matter that I’d been neutered by that bastard’s surprising blade and was in pain only moments ago. The pain had disappeared into oblivion, buried by a shitload of desire. I pushed my wife against the wall and pressed my erection into her lower back. I was rock hard for her soft, delicious smelling body, pulsing thickly in my pants as I brushed against her ass.“I’ll fuck you as you wish, princess.” I unzipped my pants with quivering fingers and whipped my cock out of my pants, stroking it roughly. “So tell me,” I leaned down and whispered in her ear, “do you want me from the front or behind?” Her cheeks colored crimson against the creamy wall as she stumbled over her jumbled words. “Fuck it,” I cursed silently and spun her around to face me. I fondled her breast with one hand and parted her thighs with the other. “I want to look into your

QUINN “What do you mean…forever?” I hated the way the words left my lips in a desperate whisper. Like a thirsty plea. Luciano took a step towards me, wincing and clutching his side. The bleeding had trickled to a considerable extent. In fact, he seemed fine, except for a wince here and there. “I'll divorce you, properly.”I scoffed and folded my arms over my chest to hide the sudden tremors. “You really think you're Lord over my life, don't you? You do with it whatever you please, whenever you please? Pick me up whenever you wish and toss me to the side when you get bored?” His face remained impassive as he watched me. I hated him so much right then. Not just for the fact that he was an asshole who was also technically my murderer, but also because he did not seem to care about his wife at all. “I know you think I'm a jerk. I don't care, anyway. All I care about is keeping you safe.”“Ha!” I threw my head back in a bitter laugh. “You know, it's funny. Coming from you.”He shook

QUINNYou said you would protect me. It was the first thought in my head as my skull cracked hard against the marble floor. Pain instantly flooded my vision, colliding with the dread that filled me.Luciano said he would protect me. And here I was, about to lose my life again because I made the stupid, impulsive decision to protect him instead. He’s a supernatural being, for God’s sake. Why did I not just let him handle this? And where the hell is everyone? Oh. I forgot Luciano rented out the entire diner for the period we were supposed to be here. So of course. There was no one to come to our aid right now. But what about local cops? Some security guards or something?The chaos going on in my head was violently ripped off when I felt hands on my neck. Big, fat hands that wrapped around my throat like a cobra and snapped the air from my lungs. “You stupid bitch!” The big man’s saliva flew in my face. “Think you can take me on, huh?!”I gagged and gurgled, my arms flailing as I t

QUINNI had barely registered the warning when his body fell over mine with an overwhelming force and sent us both tumbling to the ground with a loud thud. The sound of shattering glass filled the air in the background, somehow muffled by Luciano’s large arms wrapped around me. The sporadic shooting continued, but I felt safe, far away from it. Because Luciano was next to me. Holding me close like I was the most precious thing to him in the world. If only he knew who I really was inside this body. Would he still protect me like this?“Are you okay?” His soothing whisper reverberated through my body, reminding me yet again of that night I fell for him on that bridge. He was a total stranger back then, Quinn. That was before you knew the evil he was capable of! Glass fell around us. In a thousand splinters, I could tell. But I did not feel a single prickle from a cut or the force of being hit, and I knew it was thanks to the fact that I was thoroughly covered with Luciano’s large b

QUINNThe haze disappeared as soon as my skull cracked forcefully against a hard surface. A wail of agony tumbled past my lips as sharp, blinding pain shot through my head and spread down to my neck and my back. Panting hard, I looked around to find myself trapped in an askew position. Caught in the halved trunk of a bow-shaped shrub. Hanging upside down. My breathing was uneven, loud and raspy. I retched up even more of what was leftover from my first glaring fuck up. Tears rolled down my eyes alongside the other slimy liquid. Down the sloppy forest where I would have slipped and died if my dress hadn't caught onto this trunk.“God,” I murmured, hating the bitter taste in my mouth and itching to rinse it out. “I should not have gotten into the trunk of his car in the first place. I cannot believe this is the moment where I accept that he's right and I'm wrong. Fuck.”On and on I rambled. I could only remember bits and pieces of the last few hours. And they were not pleasant memor

LUCIANOBig men standing above 6ft glared at my wife and I as they circled us in Dante Tallavera's tennis court, cats ready to pounce on mice. But what they did not know was that in fact…I was far from a mouse. I was the threat they never saw coming. My fingers involuntarily tightened around Lilith's soft and slender ones cocooned inside. I looked over at her. She was smiling up at me with rosy cheeks and glazed-over eyes. Fuck. If she kept looking at me like that, I wouldn't be able to stop myself. I feared I would jump right over and snatch her up, rip her dress right here—after I'd gouged out everyone else's eyes—and drop hot, wet kisses all over her face and neck.It was what I craved at the moment…and the thought stiffened my cock in my pants.I cleared my throat and steeled my mind to act right and stop thinking dirty thoughts. “Are you ready?” She wiggled her brows at me. “For?” I lifted my gaze and swept it around the faces surrounding us. The men had guns pointed at us,

JADE“Haul the net in, luv! We've got church at six sharp!”“Aye, Captain!”I shot the grey haired man across the boat a salute, grinning, as he heaved another one of his insufferable sighs. Matteo Andani was the angel waiting with open arms on a safe side of the world, when I stumbled on a train to a random village in Rome’s countryside, five years ago.I knew God was on my side because he had sent me these two dashing men to keep me safe. It was a shame I lost one of them, but I still had my dear sweet Matteo.Violet eyes stayed in my mind, with the fragments of hope covered in dust and cobwebs. Matteo had groomed me into a strong woman. I never did know what it was like to lift fucking weights of barley for the sheep. Or haul nets breaking with good catches. Until I met him. He'd taught me what it meant to turn my pain into a weapon so sharp the barest cut brought me satisfaction. He'd taught me that losing certain people from your life was sometimes the best thing that could ha

JADEIn another thirty minutes, I'm driving out of the house. Freshly showered, in comfy jeans and a cream-colored knitted sweater. Hair free and loose around my shoulders. My heart is aching. I can't tell if it's because I miss Knight so badly tonight, or…because of the state of things between my husband and I. I didn’t care to tell him where I'm headed. He didn't bother to ask. He just locked himself up in his study after our argument. As I drive through the cold night, I think about how to protect my interests and that of my son. The facts are clear. Soren is having an affair. He doesn't care about me. He seems to have planned to steal from me right from the very beginning. He's not who I thought he was. What does all this mean for me? Anything can happen at any moment, and I would be left stranded, maybe my son too. I’m still not sure why Soren made me CEO of Lockwood Holdings, but I vow to make the most of it. I’ll become so successful that he would have to think twice if

JADEIf I had to pick sides, it would be mine. Anyday, anytime.But I don't tell that to my stepbrother. Instead…I take a few steps forward until there is no distance left between us. “Was there anything else you wanted to add?”A muscle throbs in his jaw, snagging my attention. “I asked you a question.” “And it's my choice to answer or not.” I pause, sliding my gaze to his lips. “Therefore, I choose not to answer such a ridiculous question.” Why would I pick sides with any of them? I don’t like my father. My husband is cheating, and doing a whole other list of strange things. And my stepbrother? I can’t spend more than ten seconds in his presence without thinking of fucking him. “Hmm.” He moves away from my face and begins to circle me like a predator. “You know, there's a reason why Jaxon offered you a seat on the board. You must decide who's side you want to stand on, or be prepared to fight a long battle.” He pauses by my side and leans close to my ear. “Which can get pretty m

JADEMy mood lightens as soon as I get on the road back to the office.And it's for no reason other than I’ll be seeing Knight soon. He's my next appointment, the last one for the day—aside from the personal scheduled dinner with Piper. That urge for rebellion has strongly consumed my being, colliding with the thirst for revenge. The combination has a blood curling effect that makes me want to exert the same pain on the people hurting me. Riley seems to detect my sour mood and keeps to herself the entire time. The driver in the seat is a new one that was hired after strict investigations into his background. By the time he pulls the car up to the front of Lockwood Holdings, I’m caught between two worlds. Telling Knight about everything that went down at the testrun, or just keeping it to myself. I wonder what the meeting would be about. Or is it just another excuse of his to see me? Not like it would be so bad to see him now…I head up to my office to find him waiting already, a

JADE “I believe you’re in the best position to know that.” Camille’s mouth drops open in mock surprise, and a nervous laugh spills through. She tries to mask it with a bit of elegance. “I'm sorry, what?” I take a step towards her, folding my arms across my chest, and it somehow comes across as menacing, because she backs away. “Do you have some kind of business with my husband? Something I don’t know about?” Only…I may know about it. She smirks, and God, it takes everything in me to not slap it off her face. Of course she's sleeping with Soren, and she's being smug about it. “What if I do?” She equally takes a menacing step towards me and gets in my face until I can see her silver eyes flare dangerously. “Would you happen to have a problem with it, little stepsister?” The way she sneers on that last word sends chills down my spine. It's almost like she knows something. “You look like you want to do something about it,” she purrs, squinting those stupid brows in mock pity

JADEI’ve had meetings all morning, and I've not been able to concentrate on a single one of them. My mind has been on the incident that occurred yesterday…how a total stranger had abducted me just for some cash. Although…I can't quite shake the feeling that there is more to it, generally. Especially the way I handled the abductor with surprising strength and ease. The old me would have panicked and not even thought about attacking the man. I feel there's something different about me—not just the necessary growth that happens to a woman who's seen the worst of life and had her heart broken. I'm talking major…unexplainable change. When did I start noticing it? Maybe it was on that day I looked at a pack of knives in the mall and felt a weird stirring underneath my skin. For some reason, that memory has refused to go away. It lurks at the back of my mind like it's an important encounter I must remember for a significant day to come. I mean…none of this makes sense but I can't ju