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13. Let Her Watch
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When the Mafia Lord Falls 13. Let Her Watch
Up and down.I looked up at his hazy blue eyes, and then down at the thing half concealed by his suit jacket.The butt of a gun stuck from his waistband, hooked on the lip of his belt. I recognized the make. A Glock 17. Standard military and police issue. Seventeen in the clip, one in the pipe. Fully automatic. Fully illegal.Elian saw me looking. His grin curved higher. “Like what you see?”“I prefer not to dance with a handgun.” I hid my wariness. Should have seen this coming anyway.“The safety’s on.”“Yeah, as long as you don’t pull the trigger. It’s fully automatic, I know.” I agreed sarcastically.Elian’s eyes narrowed just a touch, enough to punch a warning bell in my gut. A man like him didn’t miss details. Not the kind that mattered. “Fully automatic.” Then the smile started to fade. “Funny how you know that off the top of your head.”Shit.I smiled, too quickly. Casual. Careless. “I read a lot,” I said, with a flip of my wrist. “Crime novels, mostly. They get surprisingly te
When the Mafia Lord Falls 12. Dance to Impress
At first, all I could see was what I had glimpsed from grainy photos. A hard jaw, the rake of dark stubble. And the rest came into focus. Everything his pictures had obscured.Piercing blue eyes, an angled nose, steepled cheekbones. Hair like spilt ink, tousled like he just woke up from bed after a good sex. He was handsome. Some might even say beautiful.But to me—he was the father of my fucking child.Elian.There was no denying it.Not when a coiled creature stared back at me in jet black ink on the back of his hand. Its forked tongue licked up his index finger as a tail twisted up his wrist, slithered under the sleeve of a crisp suit jacket.Aurelian fucking Morgenstein was Elian.The man I fucked after my escape flight from Jayden’s cheating. The man I fucked six years ago. The man I fucked that resulted in—“You look familiar,” he leaned in, close, far too close. “Have we met before?”I froze in place as I stared at the man who had unknowingly changed my life all those years ago
When the Mafia Lord Falls 11. I’m A Dancer
I took a taxi to Evergarden. No personal vehicle. No carpools. No breadcrumbs.Aurelian Morgenstern must have had eyes on every corner and men on every street, and I wasn’t about to give him a trail to follow before I even got my shot.Hence, Jay Cordero, man of the hour and proud owner of a 3.5-star rating. He didn’t talk, thank God, but he did drop me off on the wrong damn side of the road.And it was raining. Of course.I sprinted across the crosswalk, heels slipping on the slick pavement, one hand stretched uselessly above my head like it might actually stop the rain from soaking through. My dress clung to my thighs, cherry-red and drenched, and my heels sparkled like drowned disco balls.I probably looked ridiculous. And also, if the stares were anything to go by, hot.The dress was an old joke from Charlie I pulled out of a trash bag in my closet. The heels were maybe half a decade pre-Sia time. My hair hung down in wet waves, surrendering strand by strand to the rain.I reminde
When the Mafia Lord Falls 10. Seducing A Murderer Is Not A Distraction
“This is a bad idea,” said Charlie Duffy. Her voice crackled through the speaker, loud and unmistakably exasperated. I could almost see her pushing up her oversized glasses, eyebrows knit together in that classic Charlie-judging-you face. “Like, a really bad idea.”“It’ll be fine,” I murmured, though my heart hadn’t quite caught up with the conviction in my voice.We hadn’t talked in weeks. Between the catastrophe that was my job and the slow-motion wreckage of my marriage, I hadn’t exactly been good at keeping up with weekly calls. Charlie would argue those calls were the very thing keeping me tethered to sanity.She might’ve had a point.“You should’ve called sooner,” she sighed. “I could’ve talked you out of this nonsense before it spiraled into a full-blown operation.”“It’s not nonsense. It’s my last chance to salvage my career,” I said, pacing the apartment with the phone tucked under my chin. “You remember how the last one ended. This is an opportunity, Char. A solid lead. And
When the Mafia Lord Falls 9. Aurelian Morgenstein
“Do you really want me to guess?” I asked, keeping my tone light.“It’s the fallout from your article,” she hissed, her voice barely contained. “An entire correction notice for that so-called ‘investigative exposé’ you wrote, turned out to be riddled with inaccuracies. Do you have any idea how bad this makes us look?”“Okay, first of all, inaccuracies? I followed the facts,” I protested. “And second, the story needed to be told–”“Don’t.” Brenda raised a hand, cutting me off. “We’re supposed to be a beacon of credibility, Maeve. Instead, you’ve turned Compass Media into a punchline. Social media blowback has been a nightmare, and now the publisher wants your head on a platter. You’ve put us all at risk.”Her glare bore into me, sharp enough to flay skin. “Do you have any idea what kind of position you’ve put this paper in? If we can’t recover from this, we’re done. I’m done. And as for you…”She let the threat hang in the air like an axe over my neck.“Brenda, I can fix this,” I said
When the Mafia Lord Falls 8. Six Years Later
Elian lay sprawled next to me on the over-priced hotel bed, looking far too smug for someone who had absolutely ruined my ability to walk in a straight line today. Maybe even this week. His fingers danced lazy circles on my spine, and his lips pressed feather-light kisses against my temple.I sighed, a mix of contentment and exhaustion, and just as I was ready to doze off again, my phone began its obnoxious vibrating samba on the nightstand. Once. Twice. Three times.Clearly, whoever was calling had zero respect for post-coital bliss.“Don’t,” Elian murmured, his voice low and sinful as he buried his face in my neck.“Duty calls, Romeo,” I muttered, flailing blindly for the phone. “And unlike some people, I can’t just smirk my way out of responsibilities.”“Summers, here,” I answered crisply, hoping I sounded far more professional than I felt while half-naked and tangled in expensive sheets.‘Morning, Detective. Sorry to wake you, but we’ve got a meeting in an hour. Aaron Somerset, th
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