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A Bride For The Mafia King Like A Songbird
PortiaCallahan closes the door and sits on the couch. He returned to the island an hour ago with his brother who looked a little worse for wear.I take a seat beside him."What's going on?" I ask.He scrubs his face then takes Cerberus's eager one into his hands. He looks at the dog who makes a whining noise as if he feels his master's agitation.I hear one of Callahan's signature grunts as he turns his attention to me and pets Cerberus absently.“You remember how to move the rock to get into the tunnel?”I nod. He just showed me last night."If anything happens to me, you go. Take your brother and go."“What?”"Keep Cerberus by your side as long as you can. He'll protect you."He gets up, goes to his desk and opens a drawer to take out a pouch. He holds it out to me.I take it and feel the jagged edges of whatever is inside, the weight. There's cash in there and information on the bank account where there's more. “It's in your new name. Everything you need to disappear is inside inc
Last Updated : 2023-12-06A Bride For The Mafia King Black Moon
CallahanMy head is swimming with thoughts of what Portia told me. Nathan is off the island with some of the men, so I haven't been able to question him. I haven't told Antonio or Lenore. I won't.Not until l can make sense of it myself.Is it possible Mara's alive? Did they kidnap her thinking she was Elizabeth? To what end?Blackmail? Who? They thought they'd killed us all.But there's one thing that makes sense and the thought makes me sick.I take a deep breath in. I need to stay focused on the task at hand. If Mara's alive, I will get her back. Bring her home."Sir," the soldier peeks his head into my uncle's study. I'm sitting behind my uncle's desk looking through the photo album I found on it. "He's pulling in now."“Thank you.”I turn the page on the album and look at more photos of my mom. My brothers and sister. None of my dad in this one, but he was gone a lot.More of my uncle in these than there are in the albums at home. I'm just closing the album when I hear him having
Last Updated : 2023-12-07A Bride For The Mafia King Warning Bells
PortiaSomething's wrong. I feel it. It's been hours since Callahan left, and Nathan still isn't back. I'm anxiously sitting in Callahan's bedroom watching for either of them.I glance at the pouch and the contents I've scattered on the bed. The gun looks ominous and I know it's for my own protection, but I don't want it. I don't want Nathan to have it. I don't want either of us to have to use it.There's ten thousand dollars in cash along with the two passports with our new identities. American passports. I have no idea if they're good forgeries or not, but I guess they are. The key is to a BMW.Cerberus sits beside me looking out the window. He must feel it too, this anxiety. This feeling that something has gone wrong."Everything will be okay," I tell him. It's a lie. I have no idea if anything will be okay.He sets his head on my lap with a small whimper.Did Callahan find Fernando? Is that why he's given me this pouch? Shown me the way off the island. I know this is the one thing
Last Updated : 2023-12-11A Bride For The Mafia King Twisted
PortiaHis eyes narrow as he takes the pouch. “I can drive just fine but why are you telling me all this now? You can tell me when we get there." He knows the answer. I can see it in his eyes."Because you need to go first, Nathan. I'll follow as soon as I know he's safe.""Portia — "“I need to know he's safe, Nathan. Please.""If he's safe, there will be no reason to follow.""Then I'll bring you back. If we disappear together, they'll start a manhunt. As long as they see me, they won't think anything of you not being here. I'm his wife. I'm the one the cartel wants back.""No. No way. I'm not leaving you behind. How will you protect yourself against them if he doesn't come back?”I reach under the pillow and take out the gun. He sucks in a breath, shakes his head. "No. No fucking way, Portia.""Listen to me, Nathan. This is my chance to get you out. This is our one real shot in all these years. And it may be the only one we get." I feel my eyes fill up with tears, but I steel mysel
Last Updated : 2023-12-11A Bride For The Mafia King Dead Man
CallahanBlood. Me on the cold, white marble floor. No. Not cold. But dark. Slippery like that night. Slipping in my own blood.Someone calls my name but it's an echo."David sends his regards."My uncle did this. My uncle slaughtered my family. Our family."Your wife is a dirty whore."Not a virgin."Your wife is a dirty whore. I may never have fucked her but let me tell you something. After seeing her take her Uncle Heathcliff's filthy dick, I really couldn't get it up for her anymore. That's some nasty shit."No, not a virgin.I punished her for it.She paid for it."It won't hurt as much."It was her uncle who'd hurt her. What had my father said?"You're blood. Never forget that blood matters, boys. "Blood massacred my family.Blood massacred hers. Blood violated her.Our blood is corrupted.Commotion around me. I open my eyes and see Fernando Mancini's face. His eyes are open, too. Looking at me. But they're empty. Dead. The knife still sticking out the side of his neck.I reach
Last Updated : 2023-12-11A Bride For The Mafia King Ticking Time Bomb
PortiaDead?No.No.Antonio drops me and I hit the floor, my head bouncing off hard stone.Callahan is dead?"Did you find those pieces of shit?" someone asks.I roll onto my side gasping for breath, the back of my head throbbing."Just the girl."I struggle to open my eyes and the room spins, the two of them standing over me like giants. Antonio and David."She'll have to do."I hear Cerberus's growl, turn my head just enough to see him stalk into the room, teeth bared.“For fuck's sake. Get that beast away from me." It's David.Callahan's uncle.I watch Antonio take Cerberus and walk him away from us, but when David reaches down to grab hold of my arm and roughly haul me up, Cerberus tries to lunge for him."Cerberus!" Antonio tries to command him but even as my head lolls, I can see the effort it's taking him to hold the huge dog back.David has me by both arms and gives me a hard shake. “Look at me.”I try. I can't seem to keep my head up or my eyes open, not to mention getting m
Last Updated : 2023-12-11A Bride For The Mafia King Dead Man
CallahanBlood. Me on the cold, white marble floor. No. Not cold. But dark. Slippery like that night. Slipping in my own blood.Someone calls my name but it's an echo."David sends his regards."My uncle did this. My uncle slaughtered my family. Our family."Your wife is a dirty whore."Not a virgin."Your wife is a dirty whore. I may never have fucked her but let me tell you something. After seeing her take her Uncle Heathcliff's filthy dick, I really couldn't get it up for her anymore. That's some nasty shit."No, not a virgin.I punished her for it.She paid for it."It won't hurt as much."It was her uncle who'd hurt her. What had my father said?"You're blood. Never forget that blood matters, boys. "Blood massacred my family.Blood massacred hers. Blood violated her.Our blood is corrupted.Commotion around me. I open my eyes and see Fernando Mancini's face. His eyes are open, too. Looking at me. But they're empty. Dead. The knife still sticking out the side of his neck.I reach
Last Updated : 2023-12-17A Bride For The Mafia King Ticking-time Bomb
Portia.Dead?No.No.Antonio drops me and I hit the floor, my head bouncing off hard stone.Callahan is dead?"Did you find those pieces of shit?" someone asks.I roll onto my side gasping for breath, the back of my head throbbing."Just the girl."I struggle to open my eyes and the room spins, the two of them standing over me like giants. Antonio and David."She'll have to do."I hear Cerberus's growl, turn my head just enough to see him stalk into the room, teeth bared.“For fuck's sake. Get that beast away from me." It's David.Callahan's uncle.I watch Antonio take Cerberus and walk him away from us, but when David reaches down to grab hold of my arm and roughly haul me up, Cerberus tries to lunge for him."Cerberus!" Antonio tries to command him but even as my head lolls, I can see the effort it's taking him to hold the huge dog back.David has me by both arms and gives me a hard shake. “Look at me.”I try. I can't seem to keep my head up or my eyes open, not to mention getting
Last Updated : 2023-12-17
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A Bride For The Mafia King epilogue
PortiaWe're lying in bed, Callahan's big arms around me. I'm curled into him, our heads resting on the same pillow.He's playing with a strand of my hair. I touch his unshaved face, liking the stubble."I would be dead if it wasn't for you," he says.I study him, thinking about what I need to tell him.“I didn't want to live afterward. I wanted to die. Even though I knew it would kill Antonio, I just couldn't. But then there you were, and you made me remember things. Made me feel things. Made me care again. Maybe you make me less selfish, Portia."“You've never been selfish, Callahan.”He shrugs a shoulder."I need to tell you something," I start. I take a breath in and lay on my back to stare up at the ceiling. He puts a hand on my belly. Slides it up to cup a breast.“I like this," he says. “I like a little more meat on you.""Well, I'm glad you think so." I sit up, put my pillow on my lap."What is it?" he asks, all serious when he sees my expression. He sits up too and takes the
A Bride For The Mafia King Love Is A Drug
PortiaHe also told me about Antonio, about him possibly being a product of rape. He's already sent DNA to a lab for a paternity test. We're waiting on the results."Petrov has disappeared. Diamente thinks he'd arranged the explosives to detonate after he left." I'd assumed the explosions were from Callahan's men, a distraction, but this makes much more sense."Why would he have done that?"Callahan shrugs a shoulder."Maybe he knew Felix and his fondness for cameras? Maybe he just hated the assholes present? Who knows? Who cares?""Who is he?""Russian businessman. That's all I've been able to get so far. But I'll find him.""We will find him," says a low, raspy voice from the bed.I gasp, turn my head. Callahan is beside the bed in an instant."Brother!"A doctor and two nurses rush in. They must have been alerted by the machines to Antonio's waking."Well, it's good to see you're awake, Mr. Scarfoni," the doctor says, smiling."I'd have opened my eyes earlier but these two were dec
A Bride For The Mafia King A New Dawn
PortiaI carry two cups of coffee into Antonio's room. Callahan is sitting across from his bed watching him. Maybe willing him to open his eyes. To wake up.Callahan is alive. Battered and bruised, his hearing comes and goes but he's alive. The blast had knocked him out. For a minute, I thought he was gone, really gone this time, but he's back.He looks over at me, stands. I take in the bandages I can see on his arms, his neck, the side of his head and I'm sure he does the same with mine.But it could be worse.I glance at Antonio.“You need to let the doctor look at you again,” I tell him."After." Smears of blood and dirt still stain his clothes and skin. I know most of it isn't his at least.He takes one of the cups of coffee and leads me to a chair. He sits down beside me, and we watch Antonio together.It's been twenty-seven hours since the house blew up.Twenty hours since Antonio came out of surgery.I don't know how many hours or days since David kidnapped me.I look at Callah
A Bride For The Mafia King Nine Lives
PortiaCallahan stands and helps me up."Don't look at him. He doesn't deserve your gaze."Antonio reads something on his phone, and I see the Glock he's holding at his side."Our men are on the grounds, not in the house yet though."I hear gunfire outside the house then, and a moment later, a small explosion.Callahan goes to the window, one arm wrapped around me, as he looks out over the front yard. I see the men out there, the gunfight. I notice the fire at the far end of the house.“We need to move," he tells Antonio, then turns his attention to me. "Is Felix on site?"“I don't know," I say.He nods. "If he is, I'll find him. But I need to get you out first." He holds my hand, and we walk around the bed to where the dead man is lying face down in his own blood. He bends to tug his knife out of the man's side.I notice the new injury on his side then. The bandage over the new set of stitches long gone. I touch it tentatively.“You're hurt."He takes my wrist, shifting his grip to m
A Bride For The Mafia King Back From The Dead
PortiaThe chains that bind my wrists to my ankles are removed and my arms are stretched overhead, bound to a metal rung on the headboard. I'm flipped onto my stomach, the cuffs clanging as I'm tugged downward. The link that hobbled me is also removed. My legs are pulled apart, stretched to either corner of the bed and linked to the rungs there.The two men responsible for preparing me, stand back and look down at me. One tugs the pillow out from under my head and shoves it beneath my belly. He nods, meets my eyes and cups his erection."I'll take your ass when it's my turn," he says in Spanish. "Save me a piece."I spit at him.He slaps my ass."Hey," the other soldier interrupts and points to the corner where I see one of those flashing red lights again. The camera is hidden but the soldiers know about it. They must be Felix's men."After."The man glances at the blinking light, nods then returns his attention to me. "If there's anything left."They walk out but don't close the door
A Bride For The Mafia King We
Portia"You won't be walking out of here tonight."Did she mean that literally?Because if this is Felix's plan for me, then I'll be fucked by every man out there in turn.I hear the woot of the onlookers once the curtain is fully raised. I can't see much of them and I think that's on purpose. The spotlight follows me even when I turn my head.A man calls out a ridiculous number and makes a lewd comment. Several laugh out loud as the auctioneer chuckles into his microphone, tapping his gavel twice to get everyone's attention.“You haven't even seen it all yet,” he notes in a sing-song voice.Two sets of hands take hold of my arms and force me to turn.When they do, I catch a glimpse of the blinking red light coming from the top corner of the room.Felix is recording this. Is it for me? Well, I should say is it for him?To show those who won't pledge loyalty to him what happens if you are his enemy? Or is it to hold onto after these men leave. Material to blackmail them when it suits h
A Bride For The Mafia King Lone Ranger
Callahan"I don't think..." the man starts then stops. "Shit!"I follow his gaze to where another vehicle drives erratically toward us from inside the gates. It's a large SUV and I can only make out the shadows of the two in the front seat. The driver honks his horn angrily."Petrov," the one with the clipboard says."Mother fucker," the other one curses.The driver lays on his horn opening his window and flipping us or the guards or the whole lot of us off as he barrels toward us and even over the music, I can hear him laughing."Fucking asshole," clipboard guy says as he jumps backward.I hit the gas and pull through the gates, only managing to miss the SUV by a hair. In the rearview mirror I see it swerve as if to run over the soldiers."Who the fuck is fucking Petrov?" Antonio asks."He's the asshole that got us in," I say once we're far enough away from the gates that I can't see the soldiers stationed there anymore."Two guards at the front door," Antonio says.I park the car wh
A Bride For The Mafia King Pound The Alarm
Callahan"Any chance we can get eyes on the estate? Gauge what we're walking into," I ask Diamente as we drive toward the location in Eindhoven. I watch the dark sky, the raindrops only a nuisance on the windshield now. Clouds are rolling angrily in the distance, illuminated by still-silent flashes of light.Dante is coordinating more manpower and Antonio is sitting beside me staring out the window, hands fisted."We can't get closer than the public road leading up to the house. They've got their own drones," Diamente says."Of course, they do."I have him on speaker phone but I'm not sure Antonio's listening."From what I've learned about past auctions, they issue, at most, two dozen invitations. In most cases, the buyer himself doesn't attend. They send someone in their place. None of these men want to be in the same room together if they can help it. None of them want to be seen.""Makes sense. How do they know what they're bidding on?""A brochure would have circulated prior to th
A Bride For The Mafia King Shocking Standoff
Portia“Which one started the crying fest here?" she asks, eyes on the girls.The guard who is responsible for the guilty one, pushes his charge forward.The woman steps toward her, cocks her head to look at her then touches her face, wiping away a tear. "Look what you've done to your face. Your makeup will have to be fixed, The others too."The girl swallows standing suddenly, very straight. I realize why when I see how the woman with the clipboard is holding her chin, nails digging into skin."But there's always one example to be made," the woman says and gestures to the other woman to step forward. “I'm going to give you a choice. Each of you sobbing will have the same choice to make if you're still crying like babies when I'm finished with this one."The one from the kitchen steps forward and raises her hand to show what she's holding. It's a large wooden paddle that I imagine can do real damage.“We'll need to make sure our customers understand there's a reason you're crying. Six
