Xander Mancini POV“I’m starting to think you like me or something,” I say, parroting her words from earlier. She smiles, a brilliant glint behind her pretty baby blues. “Impossible,” her mouth says. It’s the truth, says her eyes.I brush my fingers across her cheek, tucking a few strands of her hair behind her ear. “You better behave while I’m gone. I expect my territory to be exactly the way I left it.”Zandra smiles even wider. It makes my chest tight. It’s honestly unfair how beautiful she is. “I guess I can leave the south alone. You know, since you asked so nicely.”“I appreciate that.”She licks her lips, and presses her hands gingerly against my chest. “Kiss for the road?” She says it like it’s a joke, but I’m prepared to take her offer very, very seriously.I adore the little gasp she makes when I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her flush against me, claiming her lips without the usual gruffness. I take my sweet time, savoring the taste of her lips and swallowing the
Fuck. Rossi is clever, I’ll give him that much, but the opposite will happen. The smaller families will be afraid and stay in their place.When aligning himself with me didn’t work, he turned to the next best thing—guns for hire. My death will catalyze war. A few months ago, the idea would have delighted me to no end.Not anymore.“I’ll pay you triple what he gave you to let us walk,” I say.Benjamin raises his gun, training his sight on me. “Now you’re willing to give me money? Hilarious.”“Don’t do anything stupid.”“Da svidaniya, as they say in Mother Russia.” Everything happens in slow motion. I see the slight squeeze of his finger around the trigger. His men move as a unit, preparing to riddle Samuel and me full of holes. My brother is already reacting, pulling out his guns to open fire.Any other man would have frozen in place, a deer in the headlights.But I’m not any other man. I came prepared, always on the cusp of a fight. All it takes is a single gesture of my hand—Faster
Mom pats Dad’s chest gently. “And let that be a lesson for you. If you’re going to lead the Franco Kingdom, you have to take care of your health.”I run my fingers through my hair. “I’m going now. End of conversation.”“She’s seeing someone,” I hear Mom Twitter as I leave.“Leave her be, Luna Belle,” Dad replies warmly. “She’ll tell us when she’s ready.”Except I don’t think I’ll ever be ready.XXXAlessandra Franco POVI have Vincent drop me off a block away from the hotel like I normally do. He doesn’t ask any unnecessary questions, and I’m frankly thankful for it. The man deserves a raise for his discretion.“Ma’am?” he calls from behind the steering wheel.“Yes?”“Sorry to disturb you, but… is that your twin brother Alessandro?”I look through the windshield and spot Zandro standing in front of the entrance of the Crown Hotel. My heart does a three-sixty flip inside my rib cage before plummeting straight into my abdomen. What the hell is he doing here? If he spots me, he’ll have q
Alexander Mancini POV“What the fuck is going on?” Samuel roars after me as we rush into the taxi depot.It’s a lot closer than driving all the way to my place for an emergency meeting. Besides, if the Franco Family decides to come after us in retaliation, we have no shortage of taxis to use as escape vehicles.“You drove us right into the middle of an ambush!” Leo grumbles. “What the hell were you thinking?”Damien remains calm and collected. “Let’s just take a minute to breathe, okay? Is anyone hurt?”“No,” Samuel growls as he cracks his knuckles. “But someone’s about to be if I don’t get some fucking answers!”“They’re going to come down on us after that,” Roman points out. “We managed to strike a balance with them. A temporary truce. Now that’s gone out the window!” My brothers shout at each other. At me. It’s damn near impossible to think.“What the hell happened out there, Xander?” Damien asks. “You should have told us if you were planning to go to war with the Franco Mafia Fam
The line goes dead. She hung up on me. When I try the number again, an automated voice plays in my ear. “The number you have dialed is not in service.”I throw my phone across the room with an angry shout, watching it shatter into a hundred tiny pieces, and scatter all over the floor.Fuck.Alessandra Franco POV“What were you thinking?” Dad asks me. He doesn’t shout, doesn’t raise his voice. In fact, his tone is perfectly calm and level, like this is just any other run-of-the-mill conversation.And that’s how I know he’s pissed.I sit across from him on the living room couch, rubbing my hands together. They’re stained red with my brother’s blood. Somewhere upstairs, I can hear him groaning and wailing in pain. Aunt Natalia is with him, tending to his injuries. Nothing too serious, she told us. All he needs is a couple of stitches, some antibiotics, and some rest. The bullets had gone through and had hit nothing vital. But her prognosis does little to settle my fried nerves.“Did you
Zandra Franco POVWatching the footage leaves me sick and cold. The camera was mounted to a business across the street, high enough to provide the perfect angle to see everything unfold.I see my brother, arriving a few minutes before I arrive; my car shows up not even thirty seconds after.And then all chaos breaks loose. The gunman hops the curve, climbs out of his car, and can be seen talking as he raises his gun to fire. I pause the video, doing my best not to gag. I saw Alessandro get shot. I don’t want to see it again. The only thing I’m interested in is getting a good look at the man’s face.His eyes are unhinged, laced with something vengeful and frighteningly sad. Something about his presence at the scene of the shootout doesn’t make sense. I study the look on his face. It feels so…personal.My phone buzzes again. Uncle Lukas has sent me the man’s profile. At first, I figured it was because the shooter was a hardened criminal with a mile-long rap sheet. How else could he have
Zandra Franco POVGreggy slams his fists against the table, his grim expression made much more bitter by the harsh light overhead.“I lost an eighth of my men last night to those Bernardino dogs!” he seethes. “And they’re disrupting my businesses. I’ve seen an almost fifty percent decrease in profit since this war you started.”I let the old man finish, frankly too irritated to trust myself with a responsible follow-up. The family heads and I am gathered today in the private backroom of one of my family’s restaurants—a front for smuggling weapons in and out using the clever disguise of food crates—for an emergency meeting. My uncles and even Dad are here to sit in on the meeting, a testament to how serious things are getting. We’re all flabbergasted at the amount of progress Xander has made in such a short amount of time, and he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.“This is your fault,” Greggy continues, the vein in his temple popping as he points an accusatory finger at me. “Why d
Zandra Franco POV“I just want to make you proud.” My voice comes out as nothing more than a pathetic squeak. “I just want you to be proud of me, Dad.”He hugs me a little tighter. “Alessandra Franco, you’re my daughter. One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever had. I will always be proud of you.”My father’s kind, wholesome encouragements only make me feel worse. After everything I’ve done, how could he possibly say that? If he ever finds out the truth, I’m sure he’ll feel differently. That’s why it’s a secret I’m determined to take to my grave.“Come on, sweetheart. Let’s get you home. I’ll ask Natalya to come and check on you.” Whatever inkling of energy I thought I had suddenly left me. I’m too tired to argue, and instead, allow Dad Leonardo to help me to my feet and usher me out to our waiting car.“It’s most likely stress and exhaustion,” Aunt Natalia says as she stands up from the edge of my bed. “You should be fine with an aspirin and some much-needed rest.”I shake my head, strug
She nodded to Damon, ready for anything they wanted.Damon worked the engorged head of his cock against her as Daniel sank her fully over him. And then Damon was pushing inside her. Filling the tight little cunt with his massive, cum soaked cock and making her breathe so heavily stars danced in her eyes.The girth of his shaft felt different to Daniel’s, yet just as filling. Stretched over two massive cocks she began to rock her hips, needing to fill them both and move inside her.Damon pulled out and drove back in as Daniel did the opposite, setting a rhythm. Damon claimed her pussy with every stroke and when he pulled out this time her channel clenched around his shaft, eager for the orgasm they teased from her.A low, strangled cry dragged Damon’s attention to her mouth. He devoured her lips and her moans. Took control and she passed it over.She buried her hands in his hair. “Not yet, baby, not yet hold that climax. We’ll tell you when you’ll give it to us.” His ragged order serve
“Here’s your chance to run, Anya.” Damon rested his large hands on her ankles and his gaze on hers. Long wisps of hair played at his temples lending a dark, dangerous vibe to the man she loved.Her heart rate spiked.Run?Daniel growled long and low and the vibrations fed into her soul.“Anya,” he whispered.Her breath caught at the intense look in his eye.Did she dare? Three steps past the threshold they would have her pinned in their arms and making sure she knew she wasn’t getting away. No way she’d make it back to Manila, that was for damn sure.Hot molten stares followed her every move as she uncurled her legs from Damon’s touch and glided to her feet. Her leg felt better, stiff, but not enough to keep her from walking.As predicted, she managed three steps before her fingers entwined with hers. Gentle but firm. Warm lips caught her knuckles pulling a heavy sigh from her lips. From beneath hooded eyes, she watched Daniel sidle up to her and wrap an arm around her middle as Damon
An hour and a pile of papers the size of a small cat later, Damon slipped the key in and stepped aside as Daniel carried her up the back stairs.“You know I could have walked, right?”“Where’s the fun in that,” he scoffed. “Besides, I have to get practice in for when we put a ring on that beautiful hand of yours.”She laughed. “So who’s name did I get to carry?” She knew for a fact she couldn’t marry them both.Damon kissed her forehead as he held the door open for them. Her smile widened and her heart swelled with so much love. Love for both of them and she still couldn’t wrap her mind around the fact she had a tiny, innocent baby inside her. She splayed her hand over her stomach.Daniel pressed his lips close to her ear. “You’re going to look gorgeous when you’re plump with our baby.”She smiled. “I guess this is going to be home for a little while yet.”“If that’s okay with you? We can look for a bigger place once you can move around without any leftover pain.”Staying here couldn’
Damon’s dark head tilted, his mouth turning up into a wide grin. “Which is another topic we’ll need to discuss. I’m going to miss the quiet time we had up at the cabin. Just the three of us.” He raised her hand to his mouth and kissed the tips of each of her fingers. “We had planned on fucking you long and hard by the waterfall.”Daniel turned from the window. “Which we did.”Wow. What was it about these two men that left her breathless? She smiled at them both. “I remember.”“Then we’d planned on tying you up to our bed and covering every part of your body in our milk.”“Tits, ass, and pussy. You would have been dripping with our cums.”Her mouth fell open a little. Wow. Her body thrummed with an instant rush of need.“Mr. Castillo. Mr. Santillan. Be glad that part of your ‘plan’ failed or your day would have turned out completely different.” They all turned to the door and the newcomer to the room and Anya wanted to melt into the floor. Red. Her face, neck, and every other part of h
She pushed out of Daniel’s arms and stood then regretted it immediately as she fell forward. Rupert, moved to steady her, looking pointedly at her leg where the fire had left a small burn and her head where blood trickled down from her temple.“You’re men are lucky to have such a determined, loyal woman by their side.”Water welled behind her lashes. “Thank you for being here today. I don’t know how you knew, but I’m glad you arrived when you did. I’m not sure Daniel would have held back much longer.”“John and Rene called. Don’t shed any tears for that old man. He is a horrible person as I am sure your men will tell you if you haven’t already seen it for yourself.”She nodded.The fire of anger and pain that ate at her ebbed. “You’re right.”Daniel and Damon stood to either side, their body heats a balm to her nerves.She wobbled forward as her men supported her on either side. She reached for Rupert’s hand, holding his gaze. She turned to look at Damon and Daniel. “I think I can spe
Water blasted from the tip of her hose and she started watering down the dry grass. Damon did the same beside her while Daniel started digging a huge fire line through the grass. Given the strength of the wind, she didn’t hold out much hope but it was something.Dry grass crunched underfoot and cinders scattered through the weeds, causing small pockets of fire to spread along the empty field. She caught as many as she could but the fire was jumping.They worked together moving as a team trying to save as much of the property as possible. Over the ledge of small hills, a blur of dust kicked up about a mile out.“Oh thank God! Look! The cavalry is here.”John and Rene pulled up in a rolling tumble of dirt, their red rig a beautiful sight. Another one pulled up beside them filled with water from the looks of it.Smoke boiled low across the field like a thick fog and burned her lungs but still, her heart soared and she smiled.“Where’s Damon?” Daniel called out coming in from the field, e
“Who knows, maybe Rupert has a hand in this. Maybe he decided he didn’t like going against the grain after all.”They bounced along the back road, Daniel finding every damn pothole there was in the dirt road and slamming into it. If they made it to the house without breaking an axle it would be a miracle.She couldn’t say she knew any of the men they spoke about personally. The class had kept her busy during the days, and then waiting tables in the afternoon for extra cash only left her with the time she spent with her men. Damon threw an arm out in front of her when Daniel took a dip in the road too fast.“You remember what Ethan and Remy said, Daniel. We heard it too. Rupert is looking for allies, not enemies. Looking to clean up his family name.”“How the hell can you be so sure? Can you trust him?”“Daniel’s right, Anya. We can’t measure a man by his family’s bad deeds. He has to earn his reputation on his own merits. So far, he’s done nothing to us but help when we needed him.”D
Damon reached around and rubbed her clit with soft, gentle strokes as they both stretched her tight channel around their thick girths. She gasped, muscles shaking. The feeling of being stretched beyond anything she had ever felt before consumed all her senses. Her walls clenched, making both men groan. The deeper they sank the tighter the fit until she could feel their every pulse, every throb of need in their cocks.A pinch of pain followed the burn of the pressure as they stretched her hot, greedy pussy.She panted, and every muscle in her body shook. She clawed at Daniel’s shoulders. The pressure. it was too much.The burn. Fire tore through her, so delicious and torturous. A pain she wanted but never thought possible.She splayed her hands over Daniel’s broad chest and his heartbeat hammered against her palms.“Breathe, baby. If it’s too much, tell us and we’ll stop.”She nodded to Daniel’s words. “No,” she gasped. “No.” She pressed back. Slowly. Wanting them to fill her, stretch
Her lips parted and she moaned around his thickness as Daniel buried his dick in her mouth until he tapped the back of her throat.“Breath in, baby, I want to feel that throat on the tip of my cock every time I sink in.”She gagged around him and pushed him deeper, tears watering her eyes.He pulled out giving her time to catch her breath then did it all over again, this time she took him deeper for longer.“You’re fucking perfect, baby,” he whispered, cleaning her face of the few drops of tears that had spilled down her cheeks.Leaning in she gathered his balls in her hands and sucked each of them into her mouth gently while working his length from base to tip.“Fuck, that’s it. Grip his cock harder, work him faster.”Behind her, Damon delivered a series of sharp smacks one after another until her whole body tingled and hummed with a wave of pleasure she’d never known before. She cried out around her mouth full of Daniel’s balls letting them slip from her mouth on a whimper.She coul