Heart of a Monster (New Reign Mafia Duet #1)

by Shain Rose

I was taking the bait this time, even though I knew she was too frustrating, too volatile, and too chaotic to combine with my own wreckage. Us together, we were mayhem and ruination and mass destruction.

Above all else, Rome would never know he had my heart because I knew I could never own the monster that controlled his.

“Are you offering what I think you are?” His gaze ran up and down my body, searing it and branding it as his with just a look. I swallowed and then licked my lips, knowing deep down that I was his at the end of the day, that Bastian—that no man—could tie himself to me like Rome could. He’d been there for me since the beginning, and so I would be there for him until the end. “Yes.”

“At least you’ve learned what it’s like to be in the family.” He grabbed my hand and slid it under his shirt. I felt the warm liquid before it registered that he was bleeding, that he was

running my hand over his wound. “My blood is your blood. I bleed, you bleed.” I whispered the oath back. “I bleed, you bleed . . .” He squeezed harder so that I couldn’t finish it.

A ha escaped from deep in my chest. “And how do I look at her, Brey?” “Like she’s your heaven and your hell. A dream and a nightmare all wrapped up in one tiny little warrior.”

He gripped my ponytail right at the base of my neck and jerked my head around to face him. “You don’t tell me when, Katalina. You may own every part of me now, but I own these moments. Always.”

“There’s no arguing your place. Your blood is mine.

We bleed together, woman. Always. Remember that.”