Dreadful (Tattered Curtain)

by Greer Rivers

I craved a bite of her sugar and spice, but my little vipera is fangs and venom. Now all I want is to be bitten.

“Forgetting the order after you’ve completed it is how we stay alive in this world, S-Severino. What’s the saying? ‘Once a bullet leaves the gun, you never talk about it.’ The less we can tell the feds, the better. You know that, already.”

“Tallie is very important to me, Percy. She and I…we’re cut from the same cloth. No stronzo like you will ever touch her against her will again. She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s mine. And no one touches what’s mine.”

“Forgiveness is for the worthy. You’ve never been worth anything more than my revenge.”