Shattered Vows

by Shain Rose

“Bastian, I’m much too simple for your tastes.” And he was much too complicated for mine. “Dante seems nice.” “Well, I’ll be damned if a girl looks at my security team instead of me tonight.”

“I take it back. It will be a good enough time in the car.” “No. This would be a time you’ve had with many other men.” “Excuse me, not many.” I tsked and corrected him. “Some. Just what I need to fill a void. I don’t—” “I don’t fill voids, love. I obliterate them.”

“I’m not like any other man. I’ve had a shit day, and you comparing me to everyone else is pissing me off.”

For some reason, I cracked up with her admission and the lines on her forehead disappeared as she smiled big. Brilliant. Beautiful. And brutal. That’s what that smile was. She’d wreck my world if I wasn’t careful.

“Morina Bailey, you’re like the ocean. Pretty without trying, alluring without knowing, and I think you might be just as devastating. You could probably eat me alive.”

“You’re mine, ragazza. You spread your legs for another man, I’ll hunt him down and kill him.” He’d turned vicious, the way I wanted him. “I only want you. You’ll have to decide if you want all of me too. I’m not a good man. I never was, but I’m going to try for you, ragazza. I’m going to try.”