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Book 4: chapter 16
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Three weeks ago, after the Russians graciously released me, I’d gone back to my apartment to cool off and snuck time in with Gavin for more practice.Maybe it was the shitty experience with Ivan and his household, but I had never felt more exhilarated and focused on the track. With more practice racing under my belt than ever before, I dedicated those weeks to honing my skills and, with Gavin’s encouragement, built a higher level of confidence that allowed me to push myself to new limits. Every lap, every turn, and every straightaway had felt more intuitive, more precise.I pushed hard, relearned and mastered the subtleties of braking, acceleration, and cornering, and my instincts had become razor-sharp. There was something about the rush of adrenaline that was addictive, and every time I strapped in my seat belt, it felt like I was in my element, completely at one with the track.The fun lasted until it didn’t, and I had to emerge from the four walls of my apartment to ride to the tu
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That roller coaster spinning in my head turned into a nightmarish chaos.Enzo Colombo was as strong as an ox, probably the strongest man I knew on the planet. He didn’t get sick. In his own words, getting sick was for weaklings, and Papa didn’t have time to accommodate anyone or anything that would drag hisfeet for more than seventy-two hours. So, this was bad. Terribly bad.Before my competition…. How the hell had he been able to keep it from me that long?Or maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention. I’d had my head wrapped around the race, the track, and the Russian’s bullshit for so long that I couldn’t think of anything else.“He’s upstairs. You should go see him.”Marco didn’t have to tell me twice. I was in Papa’s room before he could blink. The room was just as organized as I remembered, but it had more smells of antiseptic and antibiotics than I was used to. More than I’d like to grow accustomed to.“Principessa.”Papa’s stubborn smile met me across the room, and he opened
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Rafayel Almost nothing surprised me.News could piss me off, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Maybe it was a thing that came with having to watch your back every single minute of every day when you were unfortunately cursed with a psychopathic father who was always on the loose. He’d never made it easy for us. But growing up around him long enough helped us to see his crazy tantrums coming.You could tell me the Armenians sprang a surprise attack and raided a drop five minutes before schedule, and I wouldn’t blink. Tell me the Chinese government created some new technology that was liable to wipe out the entire human race in nanoseconds, and I’d swing a glass of Vodka and wait for the explosion.So, when Tikhon bounced into the living room with a fancy glittering black-and-gold invitation to dinner with Enzo Colombo’s daughter, a surprise bomb detonated in my chest, and “What the fuck did you say?” was out faster from my mouth than I’d ever said anything in my entire life.Tikhon laughed
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Tikhon was right about the place. If there was something there, and it turned out that the girl was testing suggestive waters with me, then the restaurant was a perfect spot for an intimate evening.Soft music floated through the air, and twinkling lights were strung up around the patio.My head dipped for the hundredth time to the jade watch on my wrist, and I heard the sound of high heels clicking on the stone floor.Our reserved table was close to the entrance for good measure. I’d been fixed on this goddamn chair for half an hoursince 6:50 PM, and more than a dozen heels had threaded on the stone floor.But this one was…somehow distinct. It forced my head up, causing a collision with a vision of loveliness in the dim light. The hands on the clock seemed to slow down.Aw…shit.Something shifted in my head, above and below.Fuck.For the first time in years, my head blanked, and I lost touch with my vocabulary.I was officially fucked.This was the first time I’d seen her look like
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Time was ticking, and that meant I had to coax her real agenda for this meeting out of her before my control slipped, and I ended up doing something we’d both regret.When she piped up, I noticed a significant detail that wasn’t there before: the constant twitch of her brows like an appearing and disappearing frown and the shift in her eyes, both telltale signs of anxiety.Avoiding my eyes, Leonora fingered the glinting rose gold infinity-set knuckle rings on her fingers, and I knew I was right. She was anxious but usually quiet.My theory might have been spot on, after all. She’d organized this charade to dig her claws into me and commit murder and was now growing cold feet, trying to back out.“Yes, please. I could use a drink.”Or not.Surreptitiously, I filled a glass and handed it to her, ignoring a strange zap that traveled like bolts when our fingertips brushed. For months, I hadn’t touched a woman, and venturing into celibacy wasn’t by choice. There was always something to tak
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This dinner had an ulterior motive, and I swore that if she wanted to poison me, we were both dragging our souls to hell at the same time.“—what if I am shooting my shot?”“It’s a night you want, then? I have a reservation made at the Glacier.”She choked on the rest of her words, eyes big and fingers frozen on the table. Her shock was quick. If I’d blinked, I’d have missed it. “Yeah…yeah, sure, we could—”“You’re the worst actress I’ve ever seen.” I dropped my arms and made sure she saw the seriousness in my gaze. “Last chance to tell me what this is, Leonya.”The act died, and the real Leo emerged from the rubble of pretense. One exhale was all it took to wipe the anxiety off her face.“A proposal, Rafayel.”“Marriage?”“Business.” Steeled eyes held mine from across the table. “I don’t like it, but it is what it is.”And all the heat and burning flew off the rooftop. A spark was certainly there between me and this savage female, but this was business, purely business, as it should
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LeonoraMarco accompanied me up the stairs to Papa’s room silently. He was brooding, probably over the report I was going to give Papa. Nothing reached me until it passed through Marco, meaning he’d been adequately informed of the dinner I had with Rafayel last night.“Grazie.”I nodded and entered when he opened the door for me.As usual, the room was tranquil and organized, with every item in its designated place. There was something always warm and cozy about Papa’s room, and whenever I stepped into it, for a minute, I forgot who we were and the life we led. He liked to keep his guns hidden, though I knew there was a spare under his pillows. A force of habit.Sometimes, I thought he liked it too: the sobriety and peace of normalcy, without any pressure to keep watch behind your back twenty-four-seven.His bed was neatly made, with a few pillows propped up against the headboard, but a somber atmosphere settled over it. The room was shrouded in darkness, the heavy curtains drawn shut
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“Nothing,principessa.” Papa shook his head, but the light in his eyes had dimmed considerably. “Nothing you might not already have guessed. I am sick and unable to work for a while.”I knew where this was heading, and I didn’t like it. “And soon, you’ll be back and better, as lofty as always, and nobody will remember there was such a time as this.”“Leonora.”There was a sadness in his voice when he called my name, and it shredded my heart to bits.He wanted me to understand, but I vehemently refused. Admitting that he was currently incapable of leading his empire had to be killing him inside, and I’d been too blinded by my selfish desire for him to recover to notice.“You have to run things, lead our family until….” He wasn’t going to finish it because of the uncertainty plaguing us all. “I’m leaving it up to you to keep our family name out of the mouths of the pigs and bloody scoffers.”“And Matteo? Wouldn’t the others talk? Questions will be asked, Papa. Your male heir is still ali
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“I think we need to celebrate.” She leaned in and whispered. “Let’s sneak away from here.”I took her hand in mine. “Come with me.”She squinted. “Where are we going?”“You’ll see.”I led her to the rooftop of the building, closing the door behind us to avoid any interruptions and burying the noise of the chaos below.The rooftop was quiet, and the city stretched out before us, a glittering expanse of lights and movement. The night breeze was cool, carrying with it the distant sounds of cars racing down the street.Giselle stood beside me, her hands covered in mine as she admired the full moon and the bed of stars in the sky.Our fingers grazed, and it felt like the entire world had been set ablaze, the heat licking through my veins and the air cracking with a jolt of tension.The weird feeling in my chest intensified, and my pulse raced. It was a reminder of what she meant to me—what I’d just discovered she meant to me.I watched her, something in my chest fluttering as I admired how
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“I’ve seen how you men live. I’ll be damned before I let myself become that kind of a mess.”I nodded. I’d thought the same thing months ago, and here I was, risking it all for a woman I never thought I’d meet.She’d been freaking worried this morning, afraid of how this would turn out. I needed to go back home to her. I needed to see her face and watch her give that delightful smile when I broke the news to her.Rising to my feet, I smoothed out my suit and nodded to thePakhan. “I’ll be leaving now. I’ll give you an update if there’s any soon.”He nodded back. “Khorosho.”Dobryn was leaning on the white S.U.V. when I reached the parking lot. His face wrinkled with concern when he saw me. “How did it go, sir?”“Luckily, he wasn’t angry.” I climbed into the back seat, pulling out my phone to text Giselle that I was on my way home.The car roared beneath me, and soon, Dobryn reeled it out of the parking lot. “Where are we going now?” he asked, peering at me through the rearview mirror.
