Scarred Hearts: A Mafia Billionaire Romance
She was respectable there—and she liked it.
Later, when bravery returned, she shopped with Shayla. She experienced orange peel coarseness at the bazaar, breathed air-borne herbs, was shocked, and in hue. Strangers smiled at her sometimes without ever pausing to reflect, and she smiled at them—shyly, guarded.
It was odd, at first. To smile and not flinch. To be unenclosed.
Not all rhythm was soothing.
At night when the candle burned low, she still woke in sweats, her chest heaving, Harrison’s face carving into her dreams, the way he turned away and the way his silence had been louder than all their laughter.
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