A Sinner's Promise (De Bellis Crime Family, #1)

by Kylie Kent

“Tell me… what has you this excited?” he asks again. “You,” I whisper. “Good girl,” he says and then slams his lips onto mine.

If I want something, I’m going to have it, and the thing I want more than my next breath right now is her.

“Now that, that’s out of the way. This whole being professional bullshit? Yeah, I don’t agree with it. I want you.”

“Don’t even think about lying to me, Ellie, because I’ll know and I’ll have to make a point of proving you a liar,”

“I’m going to take your silence as permission to touch you, to lick you, to fuck you until my name is embedded in the walls of this house.”

“Open your eyes. Look at me. I want you to see who’s claiming you. Who’s taking ownership of this hot little cunt of yours,”

They were all staring at you before I even walked up. You have no idea how much I want to gouge the eyes out of every fucking guy in here.”

“Okay, well, tell me something about you that no one else knows.” Gio appears to consider the question. “I met someone I can’t stop thinking about, and I’m torn between dragging her kicking and screaming into my world… and letting her go.”

“That’s nice. What about girlfriends?” “What about them?” “Do you have one?” “That depends.” I chuckle. “On what?” she asks, and I feel her head shift towards me. I don’t turn around. “On you. Wanna be my girlfriend, Ellie?”

“I like you, and when I think about you being with anyone else, I want to rip heads off. I don’t want to share you, which means you and I are exclusive.” It’s simple as that.

Dan, arrange to have groceries delivered to Ellie’s apartment. Dan: What sort of groceries? Me: The sort people eat.

Me: This is insane. What am I meant to do with all this food, Giovanni? Giovanni De Bellis: Eat it?

And I have thought about it. A lot. I’ve decided I don’t want to let her go. I know the risk, but to not have something you want because of fear of what might be isn’t living. I’m not letting her go,”

“Because I’m fucking petrified of losing you, Ellie. I’m scared and I’ve never been scared of anything in my fucking life. But you… you scare the shit out of me.”