บททั้งหมดของ It Kills Me: A Forbidden Dark Romance: บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

When I woke up the next morning, she was beside me.She was hooked around my body, her arm across my chest, her hair a mess from the way I’d ruffled it the night before. We’d left the couch and made it to the bed, and she was so fucking irresistible that I couldn’t stop myself. I made love to her all night and enjoyed every damn second of it.But now the morning came—and reality with it.“Fuck,” I said under my breath. I scooted out of the bed and was careful not to wake her before I put on my clothes and stepped into the other room. It was cowardly just to take off and leave her there, but I didn’t know what else to do. If Dante knew she’d slept over here, my father would be dead.“Are you leaving?” Her voice reached me from the other room.I froze on the spot, caught in the act.She left the bed, pulled on one of my t-shirts, and then joined me in the other room. Accusation was in her eyes, like she knew nothing had changed despite her expert seduction. “I meant what I said last nig

“I know this was a stupid decision on my part, but I don’t regret it.” I wasn’t sure why I’d decided to come clean to my father at the end of my relationship. A part of me believed that it would fix everything, that maybe my father was putting pressure on Axel to walk away, but Axel couldn’t tell me. My father would never do that, but just in case I was wrong about that, I had to ask. “Axel and I have been in a relationship for a couple of months now.” I told him, and I was terrified of the repercussions, but I was also relieved to get it off my chest.He had no reaction at all. His eyes remained hard like I hadn’t said anything at all. There was no body language either, no sigh, no clenched jaw…nothing. His fingers continued to pinch his wineglass, and he didn’t take a drink.When he didn’t react, I continued. “It kinda just happened…and I discovered just how wonderful he is.”My father pulled his fingers away from the glass. He crossed his arms over his chest and sank farther into t

“Good.” Theo returned to the door and leaned against it again.My father had his arm around my mother, trying to soothe her shaking limbs. They were so scared, they acted like they were hostages with bombs strapped to their chests. Neither of them looked at me, keeping their eyes on the table.It pissed me off and made me feel like shit simultaneously. “I’ve never hurt you, and I’m never going to hurt you.”My dad lifted his gaze to me, and his fear was quickly replaced by rage. “It’s taken five surgeries to repair my arm—and it still hurts like a motherfucker. It’ll never be the same, and that’s because of you.”That did make me feel like shit. “I’m sorry that happened, but I had nothing to do with it⁠—”“Nothing to do with it?” Now my mother piped up when she normally held her silence, probably fully on my father’s side now that his arm was permanently injured. “You’re the reason your father was targeted. You’re the reason he was shot.”“And in case you don’t remember, I gave in to

I absorbed my father’s rage and let it dissipate. “I think it’s unwise to gamble what we have when we have no idea if this new distributor will be an improvement. And once Axel is gone, we won’t be able to get him back.” He wasn’t as stubborn as my father, but he definitely had his pride. And since he hated my father, I knew he wouldn’t be eager to work with him again, not for all the money in the world.“Trust me, this guy is an improvement.”I felt no allegiance to Axel, not after what he did to me. And I wouldn’t want to work with him directly once my father stepped down. That would be shitty. But I saw Axel’s work on a daily basis, and I knew he was a great partner to have, not someone to be dumped so carelessly…even though he’d dumped me carelessly. “Who is he?”My father relaxed in his chair, his anger starting to evaporate. “The Skull King.”The restaurant was empty when we walked inside, fully booked out for this meeting. I wasn’t sure if my father was responsible for that or

Theo gave a nod. “You have a deal.”“I have another request.” Dante sat up, leaning forward with his arms on his thighs.Theo smirked. “Don’t get too carried away now. I could just kill you and take these.”“Which is why I only brought the one,” Dante said coldly. “And I’m the only one who knows where the other two are located.”Theo’s smile faded. “What’s your stipulation?”Dante was quiet for a long time, like he was having second thoughts about the request. He was right at the finish line, but something tripped him up. “I want you to marry my daughter.”A rush of adrenaline flooded my blood and fueled my muscles for battle. The edges of my vision blurred with the color red. I could feel the spike in my heart rate, but I could also hear it in the pounding in my ears.What the fuck did he just say?Theo’s eyes flicked to mine in the mirror just for a nanosecond. He corrected himself instantly, shifting his gaze toward the window like his stare had been a meaningless reaction. He kept