My Dark Ever After (My Dark Mafia Romance, #2)

by Giana Darling

“If you do not want to believe that I love you, then at least believe this: I would do anything to keep you safe. And yes, that means I would happily take a red-eye to America. Yes, I would rip a man apart with my bare hands for so much as leering at you. Yes, I would raze this whole city to the ground if it turned against you. No one is safe from me but you,” he vowed darkly, eyes deep enough to swallow the world. “If you believe anything of me, believe that.”

“You think because I am a made man that I have no rules or morals, but you are wrong. I am Rex Infernus, and in the world that I rule, I am the one who makes the rules as I see fit. No one acts against me, little fawn, not without serious consequences.”

“You have unmasked me, so there is no point in pretending any longer that I am not the kind of man who would make any man suffer magnificently for any second of pain they gave you. I would skin them with this knife. Butcher their organs into mash. And keep them alive until the very last moment so they could feel every second of agony.”

would rather have you alive and hating me than dead. So hate me if you will, Guinevere, but you are going back to Italy with me, and there is nothing you can do about it.”

“I have to take you,” he said quietly. “How could I live with myself if you died because of me?”

“I think it is the way we look on fire with happiness, but you can lie to yourself if it will make you feel better,”

“I am sorry, Guinevere,” he murmured, thumbs sweeping over my cheekbones. “Sorrier than I have words in English or Italian to say.”

But whatever good I am I would give to you. Whatever bad I have I would use to shield you from harm. All I ask for in return is that you love me for who I am. Not Prince Charming, but tuus Rex Infernus.”