Queen of Nothing (Reina del Cártel, #1)

by Santana Knox

“I could never leave you Cecilia, but I need to go home and sit with the fact that you will someday,”

It was a cruel twist of fate, and I must have completely lost my mind to think Ronan Zerkos was going to do anything other than try to put me in my grave when he saw me again. They called him Berserk now,

“I didn’t know you then, and I sure as hell don’t know you now Cecilia. The only thing I’m certain I ever knew about you was how to make you come.”

He removed his fingers and brought them to his lips before sucking them clean and said, “Maybe next time then,” before he winked my way.

“I’m no one’s prize. I’m the curse that slowly drains the life of those who come too close,”

“Zerkos is just a heartbroken fucking idiot, and his pride is what gets in the way of you two, every time. That’s why you clash. But me? I’m doomed to never get to touch, or taste, or feel you. And to never have, is a greater curse than to have and to lose.”

She wasn’t just sunshine, she was the whole fucking Sun. So far, so unreachable, and when I thought I was close enough to touch, I would burn instead. She was all my sins coming back to haunt me, to push me over the edge so that I would lose control.

“There are two ways I can get you out of that kennel.” I told her, “You can either start telling us the truth…” I stopped for a bit, but she urged me on with a look that told me that option was completely out of the question for her. “Or you go out there and tell Berserk you’re mine.”

“She hasn’t been your girl for a long-time brother. And if she had been mine, and walked in here for me she wouldn’t be sitting in a box downstairs. That’s for damn sure,”

“Part of me is also afraid that letting anyone else in, might force me to stop loving him. I’m not ready to do that,”