All Chapters of Unbound: Chapter 71 - Chapter 73

ALESSANDROThere are a million ways to kill a man, and all Luna has to do is open her goddamn mouth.“I think I'm into spanking,” she announced, sitting in my lap as if she hadn't just spent the last ten minutes making it impossible for me to think straight. “Now that I'm leaving, we should do the other thing too.”I stared at her.She stared back.My brain, which had successfully managed to plan a war against two mafia bosses, identify an insider in my organization, and calculate approximately seventeen ways to dismantle Elio's empire, had apparently decided to resign.“What other thing?” I asked, although I already knew what she meant.Her eyes widened.“Oh, don't do that.”“Do what?”“Pretend you don't know what I'm talking about.”“I'm trying to understand what goes on inside that head of yours.”“Nothing. It's a peaceful place. There are butterflies and rainbows and occasionally a violent murder fantasy.”“Sounds about right.”She smacked my chest.I caught her hand before she co

LUNA"The rumours that started when you were seventeen. The ones people in your town whispered about. The things they said about you."My fingers curled at my sides. I knew exactly which rumours he meant.I had grown up hearing them.At first, they had been whispers. A few women talking outside a shop. Someone laughing when I walked past. A man making a disgusting comment while my father stood beside him, pretending not to hear.Then the whispers had spread.Apparently, I was sleeping with men. Apparently, I was meeting men in secret. Apparently, I had inherited my mother's supposed sins, whatever the hell that meant. Every time someone wanted to insult my father, they used me. Every time someone wanted to hurt me, they made up another story about my body, my behaviour, my supposed lovers.I was seventeen when I first understood that people could hate you for things you had never done.I was eighteen when I stopped trying to defend myself.By nineteen, I had learned to laugh whenever