Besides, how would Alek have known Gianna even existed if Dominic never presented her to him as an option in the first place? This is textbook what these types of men do—they trade us around like we’re nothing more than glorified sex dolls, discarding us when we’re no longer useful to them.It makes
Aurora POVI have to keep my face buried in the pillow when he fucks me that night.I can’t look or meet the eyes of the man who betrayed my best friend. The man who placed a ring on my finger with one hand and handed Gianna over to a bratva leader with the other. The man I thought I had been fallin
Like I still love him.Dominic doesn’t think rules apply to him. He never has. Not with me, not with Gianna, not with anyone.He thinks he can go over everyone’s head and handpick someone’s future. He believes everyone, including the people he claims to care about, are just pieces on a board he gets
Aurora POVI can’t move.I can’t breathe.All I can do is slowly raise my head from where I’ve huddled into Gianna’s side and watch as the man I trusted and the man who just promised to collect my best friend like she’s an important package stare each other down. Dominic’s jaw is locked so tight I c
Aurora POVWho is this man?And more importantly: how does he know Gianna’s name?My brain tries to make sense of it, scrambling for any reasonable explanation, but there’s only one answer that keeps circling back with growing certainty.This is the man Dominic went to meet in Russia.And if that’s
Aurora POVGianna corners me in my room the second Dominic leaves.“Okay,” she fixes me with a stern look, arms crossed over her chest. “What the hell is going on?”I blink, still sitting on the edge of my bed from when I sunk down onto it after Dominic left. My fingers brush along the edge of the c