Bound by Honor (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #1)

by Cora Reilly

“Born in blood. Sworn in blood. That’s their motto.”

Women in our world belonged to their husband.

“I look like a hooker.” “Hookers can’t afford a dress like that.”

Men, even cold-hearted bastards like them, have a weakness, and it hangs between their legs.”

“I won’t let him have Lily.”

“It’s not Lily he wants.”

“I can’t deny you something that you don’t have the right to take in the first place. My body doesn’t belong to you. It’s mine.”

“Tonight you beg me to spare you, but one day you’re going to beg me to fuck you.”

“Don’t think because I don’t claim my rights tonight that you aren’t mine, Aria. No other man will ever have what belongs to me. You are mine.”

“Born in blood. Sworn in blood. I enter alive and I leave dead.”

“When I claim your body, I want you writhing beneath me in pleasure and not fear.”

I didn’t say anything. His protectiveness thrilled and scared me in equal parts.

Love is something girls hope for when they don’t know better, something women long for when they lie awake at night, and something they’ll only ever get from their children. Men don’t have time for such notions.

“God, you’re so wet, Aria. If you knew how much I want you right now, you’d run away.”

“Someone once told me not to run from monsters because they give chase.”

“You are far too beautiful and innocent to be married to someone like me, but I’m too much of a selfish bastard to ever let you go. You are mine. Forever.”

It thrilled me to know that a man like him could be gentle with me. It thrilled me that he was mine and I was his.

did

“I’m only yours,”

“But you don’t love me,” I mumbled. “You don’t want to make love to me. You want

to fuck me because you own me.” His arm tightened

“Your marriage to me shackles you to the mafia. Blood and death will be your life as long as I live.” “Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path.”

“I loved the taste of you, principessa. I loved how you rode my fucking mouth. I loved my tongue in you. I love your pussy and your tits, and I love that you’re all mine.”

frustration. “I lied because I hate that I love you, because I hate that you can hurt me without ever laying a finger on me, because I hate myself for loving you even though you won’t ever love me back.”

desperately. “You’re not a good man, no. But you are good for me. I feel safe in your arms. I don’t know why, don’t even know why I love you, but I do, and that won’t change.”

“But I don’t care because loving you is the only pure thing in my life.”

“But you are my first choice, Aria. I’ll burn down the world if I have to. I’ll kill and maim and blackmail. I’ll do anything for you. Maybe love is a risk, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take and as you said, it’s not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that, but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It’s the first battle I didn’t mind losing.”