Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

There were severed heads hanging from the ceiling again.

In Becky-speak, that translated to, I was here before you, therefore I am better than you. Behold my fearsome attendance record.

“Yes,” Evie said boldly. “That dream I had about the boss last night.” She leaned closer. “It was dirty.” Giggling at the shock on Tatianna’s face, Evie spun back around only to halt immediately in her tracks. Swallowing a lump in her throat, eyes wide as saucers, Evie said, “Hello, sir… Any chance you’d like to add my head to the entryway?”

“Sir, I hate to belittle your successes, but there are people who go their entire lives without killing anyone.” His face remained serious. “How dull.”

“Sir, if you’re going to murder your brother, may I suggest you don’t do it in a room full of witnesses?”

This is what you get for reading books with no naughty words in them.

Evie raised a brow and looked to the animal. She swore he looked directly at her and rolled his eyes. Am I receiving judgment from an overgrown lizard?

“Sure, and I like them, but at the end of the day, people don’t make sense to me,” Blade said, rubbing the toe of his boot along the wooden floor. “But animals, they’ve always made sense. They have rules, they do exactly what their instincts tell them to do, and they never waver from it. They’re honest.”

This man is so autism coded

He’d tortured many men over his ten years in this business. For information, for making him angry, for trying to kill him, and he’d been loath to admit it…but he even did it once because he’d seen a man being cruel to a duck.