All Chapters of Lord Of Violence [Elite Lords University Series]: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Prologue I _________ SERAPHINA The bass thrummed through the house, shaking the very foundation of the Morelli frat house. A haze of alcohol and smoke clouded the air, bodies pressed together, grinding to the beat of the music. The scent of expensive cologne, spilled beer, and sweat clung to the atmosphere, an intoxicating mix that made my pulse race. I had turned sixteen a week ago. A freshman at Elite Lords University, and this was the first frat party I had ever attended. Not because I wanted to drink or dance, and finally decided to do what people of my age were doing. But because Dante Morelli, my stepbrother, was here. And like a moth to a flame, I had come after him. I wanted him to see me. To see more than an annoyance, and an unwanted presence in his house. For once I wanted his attention, the same attention he showered half the female population with but never even spared me a glance. Since the moment Mr Morelli brought us to his home, Dante had hated my mother

SERAPHINA The scent of aged whiskey and cigar smoke lingered in Viktor Morelli’s office, curling around me like a noose. I sat stiffly in the leather chair across from his massive oak desk, my fingers digging into the armrests, my spine locked in place.Viktor leaned back, studying me with the same cold detachment he used when handling business deals. Because that’s all I was to him—a transaction. A problem to be solved. Whatever little girl dreams I had of him as being a father to me that I never had were scraped and marred the moment I took away his precious son from him.“You’ve grown,” he remarked casually, as if he was just noticing me for the first time and maybe he was as he had barely paid me any attention since the day I ruined everything. “You look just like your mother.”The comparison burned even though it was half right. I do have my mother’s blue eyes and her jet black hair, and the figure that I inherited from her, or maybe it aas due to all the diets my mother subject