All Chapters of Through Smoke and Steel: A Mafia Romance: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

❄︎ Viktor ❄︎Her little pout amused me.The impressive skirts of her dress ruffled in the silence as she slid off my thighs and back onto the seat, brows pulled in frustration.I took out my phone.“Sabella got the info.”Her eyes widened as she tried to get words out.“W-what?” She speared me with a skeptical look. “Really?”Why was she so surprised at that? I told her I’d get it. Maybe she didn’t think Sabella would truly go against her brother.“Yes.” I tapped on my phone to play. “I have it right here.”I turned the phone to show her the video I’d already watched countless times.Her brows furrowed harder as she watched it. Once. Twice. Three times.“It’s not doctored, if that’s what you’re wondering.”She peered harder into the screen. “Is that…?”“Leo Santoro.” One of her father’s capos. “George must have suggested the private meeting, without bodyguards, with my father. They must have needed something, and sent for Leo to bring it. He entered the backseat, alighted after exact

❄︎ Viktor ❄︎Smoke permeated the interior of my car from the 180-degree drift I made in the opposite direction.I’d tailed Rosa’s envoy to her gates, only to receive a call from Adrian about a breach on my own doorstep.The Mexicans came for Primo.I slam my fists on the wheel and cut off the freeway toward my estate.Fucking pests. Every last one.Now that a more reliable and easy witness had come to light, I wouldn’t hesitate this time in putting a bullet between the eyes of their beloved leader.A familiar vehicle whizzed past me, bearing my license plates, and I knew that Dante was on his way to Rosa.I’d ordered Adrian to send him there in my stead. He’d proven his loyalty even in the face of being skinned and tortured, revealing no information about his Donna, and I trusted him to stand by her with his life.Whipping out my pistol, I opened the door and rolled onto the ground, letting the car crash into the foreign cars at my gates.I rolled to a stop in the middle of the carnag

❦ Rosalind ❦ At first, the smoke was so thick I couldn’t see. My throat burned with every inhale.Then, the unmistakable sound of a mag snapping into place filled the space.Something rolled across the floor toward me, clattering to a stop.“Viktor?” My voice barely rose above a whisper.“Rosa! Get down!”The explosion ripped the ground apart. Heat and force slammed into me, throwing me flat on my back.A high-pitched ring filled my ears as I pushed up on shaky elbows.“Rosa!”“Viktor.” I murmured in response to his echoing voice in my skull.A rough hand pulled me up, and the cold muzzle of a Glock pressed against my temple.“You never were very smart.” A voice sneered in my ear.Coughing, my nails raked over the thick arm pressing my throat, my back flush against Marcus’s front.“Let me go!”“Come out Viktor!” Marcus yelled, his voice harsh. He dragged me to the side with him. “I will kill her!”His breath smelled of iron, and when drops splattered the side of my face, I realized h

❦ Rosalind ❦ Going from seeing Viktor in my dreams to opening my eyes and beholding him in the flesh was like witnessing a Christmas miracle.Night after night, sometimes during the day, I’d wake up to light brushes on my hair, over my skin, and pretend to still be asleep just so it would last.He’d avoided me ever since the last showdown, while I’d suffered, pining for him.And now, pinned under his gaze, I couldn’t decide what I wanted more, to hide or to revel under his attention.Broad shoulders filled up his black-sleeved shirt so beautifully, and I had to tear my eyes away from his open, glistening chest.“Where do you always go at night?” His gaze fell to our joined hands and stayed there.I knew he slept in a guest room, I just wanted him to admit to losing his room to me, whatever the reason was.I’d refused to sleep in here the first time, but after getting the best sleep in his bed, because it smelled like him, I’d quickly moved into his room.“Work.”A lie. But I let him

❄︎ Viktor ❄︎It was always a struggle to tear my eyes off her curves. And even under my shirt, which was oversized on her, the sweet swell of her ass enraptured me.I bit back a chuckle when she skipped toward the dress section, someone was enthusiastic.A sharp nod, and my bodyguards took their positions in the high-end store.I watched Rosa whisper conspiratorially with a store assistant, while perusing the selections and stealing glances in my direction. I pretended not to notice.“Come, I am very indecisive, so you’ll help me choose.” She clutched a few dresses in her arm already and led me into a fitting booth with the other.“Why pick, when you can have it all?”She glanced back at me with a smile.“I’ll hold you to that.”Pushing me down on the velvet sofa, she proceeded to dump the dresses on my thighs.“Which one do you want me to try first?”My tongue grazed my teeth, I was already getting excited just from being involved.I glanced down at the heap, noted one with a cutout,