Forbidden Pleasure: Sex, Secrets & Scandal
“You always need a villain, don’t you? Someone to blame. It can’t just be you. It can’t be that maybe she saw you for what you are.”
My fists were trembling. My throat was tight. “And what am I, then? Tell me.”
He leaned in just slightly, his voice cutting through me soft but sharp. “You’re your father’s son. Violence wrapped in charm. A boy who calls obsession love.”
I swore under my breath, pacing two steps, three steps, like I could outrun the sting of his words. But he wasn’t finished, no, he wanted to slice deeper.
“You think she’s safer with you?” Valerio said, voice low, almost pitying. Then his mouth twisted into a blade. “The man who slept with his own blood?”
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