All Chapters of BOUND TO MY MAFIA KING: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

When the realization struck me, it felt like a large basin of ice had been dumped over my head. Three out of the four men had looked familiar. I'd identified two as some of the guards who did most of Justin's dirty work for him. Their loyalty made a lot of sense. But when this man had declared that he was prepared to betray him, all possibility of him working for Justin willingly vanished. To think, only recently I'd had a nightmare about him. "You're the girl from the island auction? I remember you." He trembled. A wound on his abdomen oozed blood. He needed help. I wasn't going to let him die here. I could feel Killian's cold gaze and Dimitri's glare burning into me, but my eyes remained firmly locked on the broken man before me. "Yeah. I thought... when the auction was almost over and you weren't sold, I thought they took you to a brothel, or the breakroom." The breakroom was this dungeon that was probably the earthly equivalent to hell. Rumor was, once any man took you down th

It was pretty fucking obvious who 'her' was.Despite the obvious reference to his sister though, Killian betrayed no emotion. Rather, he pulled the box off the tiles, grunting slightly from the weight."Where are you taking it?" I stepped forward to help, but he shrugged me off, taking the stairs one at a time."Upstairs. We can't exactly open it here." Car engines revved outside before they shut down. "Ruth's crew are here to clean all this up. We should leave."After a short glance back at the mess of bodies and blood, I followed. The image remained burnt into my mind though.My fingers still trembled. The feeling of the cold metal of Killian’s gun digging into my palm. The expression of the man when the bullet pierced his heart.I'd killed people before, but never so willingly. Usually when someone attacked me, but never someone else because there was no one worth protecting. Only, this time, there was someone worth protecting. And he had done the same for me without a thought.He

He didn't hold back this time.Rather, his fingers ran through my hair, gripping it slightly and pulling me toward him, his tongue exploring every part of my mouth.I yelped when he stood up, carrying me with him bridal style.His eyes were intense, almost scary. All things considered, Killian wasn't exactly in a good enough state for me to trust him either with what we were about to do."What are you thinking about, little crow?" he asked, pushing his bedroom door open with his foot."Nothing?"He placed me gently on the bed, his hands digging into the sheets at my sides."Right now, I want to be the only thing on your mind." He kissed me again, short and quick, almost like he wanted to steal more and didn't have time. "Let's not pretend for that too, hmm?"I nodded, the cold feel of his touch alone stirring parts of me that had long since been dormant.His fingers went below my shirt, causing me to tense and him to stop."Is that OK?"I nodded, taking in a deep breath to prepare, te

Killian and I darted out of the room. He moved so fast the sheets nearly left with him.Anticipation burned in my throat as we approached his study where the box had been last night.When we stepped in, the contents were placed in a neat pile next to the metal cube."So...what's different? It's all the same," Killian asked, his voice cold. Devoid of emotion, something I noticed he did when he was about to break but refused to be vulnerable in front of others.My hand found his, holding on firmly. While Ruth moved toward the clothes, my eyes caught something. Small, the size of a locket or a twig.It was laid out on a small navy blue cloth. Ruth picked it up fearfully, her fingers trembling beneath it as she approached us.We hadn't had breakfast the night before because of all the chaos. If not, I might have lost the contents of my stomach right then.The thing resting on the cloth wasn't a twig or a locket.It was a finger.Blue stripes had already begun to form along the skin, indic

Dimitri arrived at the docks hours late with the excuse that he'd been “taking care of Alex.”While it was rare for him to give this much attention to anyone, it was still annoying.Ruth had spent the whole day getting every item in the box scanned, as well as the box itself. She gave hourly updates but was scared otherwise.That left me to monitor all the other drug and firearm shipments in the Red District docks, and also make all the right phone calls to track down Justin.I'd just gotten off the phone with a senator when the call came in. For a second, the thought of not answering occurred to me. After all, she was probably calling to complain about leaving her with my mom.It was for her own good. The Red District was too ugly for someone trying to recover from being somewhere similar.“Killian?” From her voice alone it was clear something was wrong. I sat up, tearing my gaze from the multiple boats and ships carrying the imports.“Ariella? What's wrong?” I started the car up imm