Queen of Nothing (Reina del Cártel, #1)

by Santana Knox

I squeezed my hands until my fingernails drew blood in my palms like I learned to when I was little, and instead of dropping a tear I grew another shell of ice over my heart.

“Reina del cártel… Queen of nothing.

Poor fucking Fred, he was a dick who never knocked hard enough to hear and always made me pick up my packages at the Post Office, but he didn’t deserve to die for me.

We sat on a throne out of the skeletons from our past hoping we could muffle out their cries and screams.