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

by Cora Reilly

You are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, and tonight you are mine.”

My body doesn’t belong to you.

Luca came toward me and I flinched. A dark smile curled his lips. He pressed the sharp tip of the knife into the soft skin below the crook of his arm, drawing blood. My lips parted in surprise. He put the knife down on the small table between the two armchairs, grabbed a glass and held his wound over it, then watched his blood drip down without a flicker of emotion before finally disappearing in the adjoining bathroom.

He approached the bed, dipped his fingers into the liquid and then smeared it onto the center of the sheet.

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

No other man will ever have what belongs to me. You are mine.”

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

“Someone tries to touch you, they lose their hand.”

“When will you stop being afraid of me?”

“You don’t want me to be afraid of you?”

“You are my wife.

We’ll spend our lives together.

“You look great.”

“You can go anywhere you want now.”

“No wonder New York girls are so thin if they eat like this all the time.”

“You are more beautiful than all of them,”

“I’ve never wanted to fuck a woman as much as I want to fuck you right now.”

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.

“I want to feel your body against mine tonight. I want to hold you.”

“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.”

“You’re fucking beautiful, Aria.”

“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.”