LOGINGood and evil are just words. I don’t pretend to be the misunderstood hero—I’m the monster who tells the truth even when I shouldn’t. And the truth is, I should’ve walked away the moment she stepped into my bar. Bowen Fox cleans up other people’s messes for Boston’s most dangerous men. He kills, he hides, he buries—and he never feels a damn thing. Until a runaway with cherry-red hair and a fake name walks into his world, turning his carefully controlled life into chaos. Ripley Beretta—now Harley Beaumont—escaped the gilded cage of her mafia family and the arranged marriage that would have sealed her fate. Desperate to disappear, she takes a job at The Fox Hole, never expecting her new boss to be as infuriating as he is irresistible. But Bowen’s past and Ripley’s lies are bound by blood. He was hired to clean up her family’s mess… and she’s the one who made it. When desire turns to obsession, and secrets turn deadly, love becomes the most dangerous game of all. He was sent to destroy her. She might be his only salvation. And when the truth comes out—he’ll wish her hell.
View MoreThe concept of good and evil is subjective. Children are taught from a young age the difference between bad and good but what’s tolerable to one parent could be abhorrent to another; see, subjective. I won’t tell you I’m the misunderstood good guy who has redeeming qualities because that would be a lie and if there’s one thing in life that I don’t tolerate it’s a lie. I’m not talking about white lies or half truths, my life is built around omission. You see the truth is only as good as the man whose lips it came from. I’m not a good man but I tell the truth, even when I shouldn’t. I realize the contradiction here but in my world, it makes sense.
Chapter 1
Bowen
Wet lips wrap around the tip of my cock and I hoped with everything I had that getting some blood flowing below my shoulders would ease my mind from racing but it doesn’t. If anything this whole charade is pissing me off further, I want to grab a handful of her hair and shove my cock so far down her throat her eyes water and she has to hit my thighs to get me to pull back but I don’t act on it. Acting on it would make her think I actually cared about her when in fact, she's just another mouth in a line of women attached. I let her continue using my dick like a lollipop she isn’t sure she likes the flavor of and she exhales loudly. The stack of receipts I need to go through glares at me from the top of my desk, the bar order form is half done with my pen still sitting on top of it. I’ve never faked an orgasm, I don’t even know how but my mind runs scenarios of how I can get Chantel off her knees in front of me without hurting her feelings. Feelings, why the fuck am I worried about her feelings? Because sexual harassment is real and if she walks out of here with tears in her eyes and tells the other bartenders that I didn’t even finish it’s going to look bad on all fronts. I don’t need that kind of heat, The Fox Hole is an upstanding place and if people hear that I’m sexually harassing my waitresses and don’t even finish the job, I’ll be investigated and even worse, ridiculed mercilessly by the guys in my circle. A full roast session is not in the cards for me this month, or next. I don’t have the time. Like someone upstairs was listening, my phone rings on the desk and Chantel, bless her heart, keeps sucking like her daddy was Mr. Hoover himself. The vacuum guy, not the president. I grab the device off the desk much to Chantel’s dismay, she glares at me with my dick still in her mouth which shouldn’t be comical, but it is. I smirk down at her as my phone opens from facial recognition, a text from a number I don’t know appears in the notification bar and I open it. I scan the text quickly and sigh loudly before standing up. Chantel falls backward on her stilettos, her ass hitting the hardwood sounds throughout the room. Her mouth follows my cock like a baby bird in the nest waiting for its next meal. I’ll give her credit where credit is due, she’s determined.
“Sorry doll face, I’ve gotta go.” I say tucking my half hard dick back into my black jeans .
“What?!” She squawks, “We were almost done.”
“No, no we weren’t.” I correct, leveling her with a stare as she stands up from the floor.
“Um, I think I know when a guy is getting close,” she jokes as I make my way towards the door, I turn the knob and open it before giving her the last piece of advice.
“And I think I know when I’m about to come. The finish line wasn’t even in the distance. You should really start practicing, try a cucumber or a carrot. I don’t give a fuck but the next guy you give a blow job to might not appreciate your tenth grade technique.” I close the door behind me and the sound of what I assume is a shoe hits the door. I pop my head back in to check the damage, a hole sits in the door and I narrow my eyes at her.
“That’s coming out of your pay, Chantel.” I tell her, my eyes bouncing from the stiletto sized hole to her mortified face.
“Asshole!” She screams but it’s muffled by the door closing again behind me. I smile briefly to myself as the wait staff stops what they’re doing to stare at me. “Bad review.” I say and they all nod like it’s a reasonable response to her calling me an asshole. I check my pockets for my car keys and realize they’re not in my pocket where I left them, dammit. I must have left them on the desk, looks like I’m taking my bike instead of the Chevelle tonight. Oh well, a good ride would probably be good for my head, there’s been a lot going on this past week and I can feel the tension headache coming in hot.
I grab my jacket off of the hook on the wall and head out the back door. Downtown Boston bustles around me as I throw a leg over my black Ducati, the summer crowd is waning and the fall crowd is coming back in full force. I love this time of year, the days are getting shorter and less humid and the nights are longer. I prefer the night, most of what I do is best cloaked under the shadow of darkness. People don’t like to think the world has darkness in it but that’s where I revel. My best paying customers bleed black and they have no qualms about it. They know what they are and I appreciate that, there’s nothing worse than a snake that doesn’t believe they’re a snake. The engine of my bike roars to life as I set my sights on the docks. Tonight is another job, tomorrow will be a different one, they’re never the same but the monotony of it all is starting to weigh on me.
Chapter 4 Bowen Flaming red hair flies past the front window of the restaurant, she’s late. I don’t normally greet my employees at the door but Chantel called and said she was running at least an hour late from a water leak in her apartment, so now I have to deal with this bullshit. The front door swings open and Harley strides in like she owns the place, again. I don’t know who in her life told her she has a crown on her head but her piece of humble pie will be expensive. “Sorry, I’m late. I had to run all the way here,” she says out of breath, she leans forward and then lifts back up with her hands on top of her head to open her airways. “Why did you run all the way here? And from where?” I ask, she’s not wearing trainers so I know it couldn’t have been for the exercise. “You know there’s an app that you can use to get a ride pretty much anywhere. It’s called Uber.” She looks at me dumbfounded. “What?!? Are you serious? You mean I could just call a car to drive me in
Chapter ThreeBowen The door opens to the bar as a woman with dark cherry hair waltzes through like she owns the place. Her demeanor is tenacious and she’s carrying herself like it's her God given right to be here. She steps up to the bartender and asks him something, he turns his head and points at me. Fuck. Usually my manager handles the nuisance of hiring someone, but as of yesterday, I now have to deal with that again. Cherry Red walks straight to the table I'm sitting at as I read the receipts from last night's deliveries. "No." I state nonchalantly, keeping my eyes glued to the papers. "I'm not asking for a date, just a job." She responds with a sweet smile. Right, as if I'd date anyone, let alone her. She looks like a misplaced Princess, trying hard to not fit in. Studying her face, she’s young, like possibly not old enough to be here, young. “How old are you?” I ask, sitting back in my seat. I pray she’s over eighteen. “You can’t ask me that,” she says with a
Chapter 2 Ripley Harley My face disappears in front of me as I hold the plastic card between my index finger and thumb. Hot plastic drips into the metal garbage can, the last part of my previous life melting into a pool at the bottom. My new ID, social security card, and birth certificate sit in the middle of the dilapidated press board table. The motel I’m calling home for the foreseeable future smells like feet and cigarettes and the noise from I-95 makes the single pane barred windows shudder with every car that passes, but it’s better than where I was. A mask of red hair dye sits on top of my head and the mixture makes my scalp itch and I try my best not to scratch it. I don’t need the flaming crimson color underneath my fingernails tomorrow when I go look for a job. A job. The concept isn’t one I’ve ever thought about. As a Beretta, I never needed one, my father took care of everything. I have no skills outside of shopping and Italian cooking, maybe some Italian restaur
The concept of good and evil is subjective. Children are taught from a young age the difference between bad and good but what’s tolerable to one parent could be abhorrent to another; see, subjective. I won’t tell you I’m the misunderstood good guy who has redeeming qualities because that would be a lie and if there’s one thing in life that I don’t tolerate it’s a lie. I’m not talking about white lies or half truths, my life is built around omission. You see the truth is only as good as the man whose lips it came from. I’m not a good man but I tell the truth, even when I shouldn’t. I realize the contradiction here but in my world, it makes sense. Chapter 1 Bowen Wet lips wrap around the tip of my cock and I hoped with everything I had that getting some blood flowing below my shoulders would ease my mind from racing but it doesn’t. If anything this whole charade is pissing me off further, I want to grab a handful of her hair and shove my cock so far down her throat her eyes wate












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