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Ms. Lebowitz had been mistaken; the innocent girl I had been before my parents’ arrest was dead and gone. I was not soft anymore. I’d taken so much hate in the past months… It was enough to make me as desensitized and strong as I needed to be.
“Mangia merda e muori!” he barked. Eat shit and die…how original.
is there anything else you would like to eat?’ I shook my head. The old Luca would have answered ‘your pussy’ in a heartbeat and saw where that led us…which I was positive would have been her, naked and wet, on the kitchen table and me eating her like she was my last meal.
My dick stirred and I looked down, surprised. It had been a while since my dick stirred from its long-term coma. It was usually on life support—just like me, not feeling anything except my constant self-hatred.
The doctors had said he was on the autistic spectrum, very low on it, but using words and word games were his coping mechanism. My parents had been angry at him when they’d found out my brother was ‘broken.’ It was rich coming from sociopathic killers.
Assholes
“It runs in your blood.” Ah, he knew who I was, and he was a giant asshole.
The silly woman had it in her head to repair it and she had been working on it a few hours every day, and I was going out in the dead of the night with a torch to fix what she’d attempted to do.
Dom cocked his head to the side. “Why don’t you just put a bullet through your brain and be done with it.” His words were harsh, but his flaring nostrils, set jaw, and the quiet desperation in his eyes showed he didn’t mean it.
Don’t, Cassie. Don’t defend his behavior. Don’t make the same mistakes you made before. Beasts will be beasts and monsters will stay monsters.
She was the gates of a Heaven I was not allowed to seek, not allowed to reach. She was my fucking punishment. Sinners like me didn’t deserve women like her.
Cassandra West was a force to be reckoned with and part of me just wanted to surrender to her purity before I risked tainting her with my darkness.
I’d seen on Google how he’d looked before the accident, all preppy and powerful with an uncanny resemblance with that dark-haired vampire from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but the scars didn’t take anything away from his handsomeness—no
Angel? 😂
“You’re making it so difficult,” he whispered so low I wasn’t sure it was made for me to hear. “What?” I replied breathlessly as he brushed his fingers slowly back and forth against my bottom lip. “Staying away from you.” “What if I don’t want you to?” “Then you are just as much of a fool as I am.”
“We all have scars, lovely girl,” he said, turning toward me with a sad, almost wistful smile. “Some are out there, on your skin like an armor—a proof of your struggle. But some, the most vicious and destroying of all, are internal and they grow, fester, and…” He stopped suddenly and let out a shaky breath. “You’re amazing, you are perfect, and I feel a strong attachment to you that is unfamiliar and unsettling. I feel like you’re family and it’s again all new to me. Be grateful that it is not romantic—be grateful that all I want from you is your friendship and your trust.”
“Cosa c'è di sbagliato in te, stronzo?” I asked my head of security who looked more like an ugly oversized woman at that moment than the cold mafioso killer he was supposed to be. Dom's lips quirked up. “We’re having a girls’ night.” “Ah.” I nodded. “You finally grew a vagina? It was to be expected.”
She is a fucking unicorn, brother.”
Noooo
That was something that was true about emotionally abused and neglected children—they made do of everything, settling for much less than they deserved. But that would not happen to Jude; I would give him all he deserved.
“If she had died, there would have been no me left.” “And I would have killed them all,” Dom added darkly.
“Being an ass is Matteo’s default mode.” Dom cocked his head to the side. “I thought it was a psycho killer.” I nodded “That too.”
Dom looked away, his eyes carrying the glint of unshed tears. “I’m not crying, you’re crying.” “I never said you were crying,” Cassie replied gently. Dom sniffled. “Shut up.”
