Grace POV“Good morning,” I say as soon as Dash’s arms wrap around my body as he pulls me to him. His front is pressed against my back as he kisses my neck. I can’t help but giggle with the shivering from my body. “Happy birthday,” I say and he stops kissing my neck and I turn around to face him in bed and his eyes are glued on me and his natural smirk is plastered all over his face. “Happy fucking birthday to me,” he says, pulling me to straddle him and I let out a squeal as he positions me on top of him. His fingers dig into my hips as he lifts his slightly, pressing his hardening cock against my pussy. “Happy fucking birthday to you,” I repeat his words as I pull my t-shirt off my body, exposing my breasts and Dash sits up on the bed, pulling me to him as his lips fall on my nipple straight away. A moan leaves my lips as I throw my head back while his arms to keep me in place. The sensation of his hot, wet tongue against my sensitive nipple is sending waves of pleasure down my b
Dash POV“Seriously, why are you doing this to me?” I ask Jagger and he shrugs his shoulder than his hands rest on the steering wheel of his Hummer. “I thought you were supposed to want me to be happy,” I huff. “You’re behaving like a child, now shut the fuck up,” Jagger barks at me and I cross my arms in front of my chest. This is becoming seriously the worst birthday in human history. Jagger never cared about our birthday and this year, when I had grand plans of spending the day fucking my girl, he decided he wanted to spend the day with me. I don’t even know why he is bothering to do anything. The light turns green and Jagger keeps driving and when he stops the Hummer; I look around, frowning. “Is this where you kill me?” I ask, and he rolls his eyes as he opens the door and leaves me inside the Hummer. What a prick. I open the door and follow him out and then suddenly a plane lands nearby. I frown and he rests one hand on my shoulder as he guides me to the smallest plane known
Grace POVWatching Dash have fun with his brother and friends is making me the happiest person in the world. I love this feeling of accomplishment. I love how Dash is laughing and having fun. If you asked me a few months back if I believed my life would be like this, I would have said no, not in my wildest dreams. I would have thought I would have an amazing man by my side.I never imagined falling in love so fast. I thought that was all in literature and love like that was impossible to find. I never thought a man would look at me and feel desire, feel the need to be around me. But then, Dash walked into my life, saving me from a drunk mess, and became the most important man in my life.Sometimes I wonder if other women feel the way I am feeling right now when it comes to their partners. I take a deep breath as I feel a hand on my arm. I look at my side to find my mother holding her champagne glass. Her smile is small but genuine. “Thank you for inviting me today. I am having a grea
Grace POV“I swear he keeps looking at me,” Hannah says as she looks over her shoulder at Priest. I shake my head as I watch him smile and wink at Hannah. She is right, he keeps looking at her, but from what I heard, he is a man-whore and not into relationships.“Be careful,” I warn her and she shrugs me off. I love how my friends know what they want and they go for it. They were always sexually more evolved than me, not to mention they all lost their virginity while they were in high-school.“Excuse me, can I steal Grace for a second?” Dash says as he interrupts my conversation with Jamie and Hannah. They both nod and smile as he holds my hand to pull me away.“Come here.” Dash pulls me into the house and I can’t stop giggling. I feel like a teenager hiding at a party to have a make-out session with her bad-boy boyfriend. Not that I ever had
Dash POV“What the fuck were they thinking?” I ask as I pace around Jagger’s office. Jagger is as pissed off as I am about what happened at the party. I haven’t dared to tell Grace what really happened. We pretended it was some random guy trying to rob people at the party when it was her father trying to get into the party again.I know she went to talk to him earlier on and told him to leave, getting the security team to escort him out, but after having a few drinks, he decided to come back and make a scene. Obviously, the security team she hired had no clue who they were working for, and when they decided to use their guns in warning to send her father’s way, they triggered an entire mafia organization to think they were under attack.Luckily, Storm sorted everything with Prank very fast without us blazing our guns in front of everyone. I pinch the bridge of my nose as Jagger sits
Grace POVThings have been bizarre around Dash lately. It’s like he is in his own world the entire time he is with me. I feel like something happened, and he is not telling me. Whatever happened at the party is taking a toll on him and he is not relaxing. His smile has disappeared, and he is always on edge. He is taking me to school and picking me up every day. His house is still not ready for us to go back, making me anxious because I feel like Jagger is not happy with our presence in his house. I know he doesn’t like Crow, and I feel like we have overwhelmed our stay, but Dash says I am being paranoid that Jagger loves having us around. I have grown closer to him and he is an amazing man. I just wish I knew why he didn’t have anyone. Jagger is extremely good looking, and he is the best criminal lawyer in New York, if not in the country. Rich and such a sweetheart. I find it odd no woman has snatched him yet. I sit on the edge of the bed, slipping my feet into the shoes Dash got m
Dash POV“We can discuss that at a later time,” I let out as I look around the VIP area. I don’t know where Grace is and I am a little on edge about it. There are some dangerous people here today and one of them is standing right in front of me. Carson might not have ties to the mafia, but he is a crook and he will use anything and anyone to get what he wants. “But I thought bringing me here was about that. It’s the third time we try to talk Dash,” Carson says and I shove my hands into my pockets a few seconds away from losing my shit. “It was, but right now I have some other shit going on,” I say and Carson smiles, imitating my position and placing his hands into his pockets as he leans against the glass that separates the VIP area from the common area. His eyes meet mine and I feel something in my stomach turn. “Is it about your little girl?” He says, offering me a sinister smile. I take one step closer to him, ending the distance between us, and his eyes meet mine as he smirks.
Dash POVWalking straight to the bar, I enter the restricted section only the bartenders are allowed and grab a bottle of top-shelf whiskey. The bartender looks at me and I can tell he wants to say something, but with the raise of one of my eyebrows, he can tell I am waiting for him to do it so I can fire him. I stand a few seconds waiting for him to protest while I bring the bottle to my lips and take a huge sip out of it. “Anything to say?” I ask, and he shakes his head vigorously. “I thought so,” I let out, walking away from him. This is my place. I own everything in this place. Why would he think it was a good idea to judge me for grabbing a bottle? I fucking paid for it. Walking through the sea of people on the dance floor, I allow my body to bump into people as they move. Losing control of my body sometimes is the right thing for me. I stand in the middle of the dance floor with my eyes closed, holding the bottle by its neck. Everything in me is shaking and my need to scream an
Jagger POVEntering the elevator, I press my key card to the reader and the doors close immediately. I hate sharing the elevator with people, so I like to come early, before everyone is supposed to start. Today is a bad day for me. It’s been ten years today since my life changed and made me the man I am today. The elevator doors open and Janet looks at me with a wide smile. I look at her, shaking my head slightly as I walk to her desk and she offers me a cup of black coffee. “Good morning boss,” she says and I raise an eyebrow, looking at her and her shoulders slump as she looks at me. “What? Can’t I try to make your day a little better? Today is your dark day after all,” she says and I nod slightly, offering her a small smile. I don’t smile a lot lately, I don’t have a lot of reasons to smile, anyway. “Every day is a dark day,” I correct Janet, and she crosses her arms in front of her chest giving me her sassy attitude and I nod “Thank you for the coffee,” I tell her and her entire
Dash POVStanding at the altar waiting for Grace to walk up to me is making me more nervous than I have ever been in my life. Waiting for her to walk to me in her wedding dress, ready to make me her husband, is the weirdest feeling ever. The past year I have spent showing Grace how much I love her and how important she is to me. The Bridal March starts playing and I look at my brother, who is standing next to me while I adjust my jacket. Fiddling with my hands seems to be helping with the anxiety of seeing Grace.Everyone stands up and then I see Grace walking towards me next to her mother. The veil is covering her face, but I can see her smile underneath. Once they stand in front of me, Marie kisses me on the cheek before offering me her daughter’s hand. I hold Grace’s hand, bringing it to my lips before I remove the veil from her face and her eyes shine with happiness, but it soon disappears when her eyes move from me to my brother standing behind me. “What happened to Jagger?” Gr
Dash POVOne year laterOpening my eyes as I feel the sweat dripping down my face and my heart beating fast makes me sit up straight immediately. I look around the room, remembering I am in Jagger’s house. Today is my wedding day and Grace came up with the whole shit. I am not allowed to see her before the wedding kind of crap.I tried to explain to her that superstition made no sense, not when we lived together and shared a life already, but she made me promise I would respect what she wanted. What can I say? The girl says jump and I ask how high. I am entirely in her hands and she can do whatever the fuck she wants with me that I will allow her to. Pulling up a pair of shorts that I left on the chair, I walk out of the room towards the living room to find my brother with an ice pack against his lip. I raise a single eyebrow as I step closer to him and chuckle as his bruised face appears behind the ice. “Holly shit, Grace is going to fucking kill you, and those bruises won’t be any
Dash POVI open my eyes and immediately regret doing so. My mouth is dry and my vision is blurred. I move my hands up and down my face, trying to wake up, but the headache makes me flinch. I groan in frustration and when I move; I feel something next to me in bed. No, no… Fear strikes and I stand still, not wanting to look at how much I fucked up last night. Getting drunk is one thing, but hooking up and ending up fucking a random girl is an entirely different kind of fuck up. A fuck up, I will not forgive myself. Gathering the courage to look after taking several breaths, I move slightly to see Grace sleeping next to me. I look up and then look at my side again, sitting up on the bed in one movement. Not believing my eyes, I smile, but at the same time freak out a little. How the fuck did I end up in bed with Grace?I look around the room, not recognizing it, and then look down at my body to find a pair of green boxer shorts I have never seen in my life. What the fuck? Looking arou
Grace POV“Grace, dinner is ready, sweetheart,” Mom says as she opens my bedroom door. I nod my head slightly without lifting my head from the pillow. “I’m not hungry,” I whisper back as I feel a single tear roll down my face. I have been crying on and off since I left Dash’s house. Everything he has told me, plus everything else that happened, has taken a toll on me. It’s like my brain has gone into overdrive and shut down. Refusing to cope with what is happening.Mom takes a deep breath as she sits on the edge of the bed, resting her hand on my legs. I look at her and I can see the concern plastered all over her face. “I am worried about you,” Mom says, and that is the last thing I want. She doesn’t deserve to be feeling this. She has gone through so much, I hate putting another thing on her back. Mom looks like she has aged years in the last few days. The betrayal, the divorce, my dad’s death, and my kidnapping have taken a huge chunk of her life away. “Sorry Mom,” I say, sitting
Dash POV“What do you mean, you do things that would make my skin curl? What do you mean by that?” Grace asks and I close my eyes for a few seconds and when I open them, her eyes widen as if she is finally understanding everything. “I am innocent Grace, and I will make sure no one comes back to hurt you,” I say, and she stands up so fast it makes my head spin. “Careful, you can’t do that,” I say, but she ignores me as she paces around the living room. “Are you telling me you are like Parisi?” Grace asks and I stand walking to her. I place my hands on her neck and her eyes meet mine as I caress her skin lightly with my thumb as I shake my head. “I am nothing like that fucker, I don’t traffic women, I don’t rape women, I don’t force them to do things they don’t want, and I sure as hell don’t hurt innocent women,” I add and Grace’s eyes widen again as her hands fly to touch mine. Her hands gripping mine but she doesn’t push away. “I am not like him, but I am not innocent,” I say and s
Grace POV“I can walk by myself,” I let out with a giggle as Dash lifts me from the car. His arms holding me bridal style as he carries me to the elevator. His eyes meet mine and he plants a small kiss on my lips as we wait inside the elevator. The doors open, taking us into our apartment and when we are inside, I look around trying to find my furry friend, but disappointment takes over as I can’t see him anywhere. “Where’s Crow?” I ask Dash and he smiles as he puts me on the couch. His eyes follow my every move as I adjust to my position. “So? Where is he?” I ask and Dash sits next to me, smiling. “Jagger has him, because I was spending so much time in the hospital with you he offered to stay with him, shocking I know,” Dash says and I widen my eyes, nodding. “I never thought I would see the day the big bad wolf would become a teddy bear and decide to offer his help with a dog,” I say as I laugh, and Dash smiles. “Are you hungry? I can make you something to eat,” he says and I sh
Dash POVI walk straight into the room where all the instruments are kept. Things here are different from the safe house. The cells are like rooms and we can’t keep the stuff inside because otherwise they could use it against us or against themselves. Gathering my favorites, I smile as I grab the baseball bat, the knife, and the nail remover. I shove them into my pocket as I rest the baseball bat against my shoulder and I walk into Amber’s room. Her eyes meet mine and she immediately moves against the wall. “Please, don’t do this Dash, I can give you more information,” Amber says and I can’t help but laugh at her poor attempt at getting out of this. “I’ll tell you whatever you want to know,” Amber says, and I shake my head as I grab my phone from my pocket. I log into the security camera feed and show the bitch she is not alone anymore. Amber gasps, covering her mouth with her hand as she sees her pile of shit boyfriend or whatever Parisi is in the other room. He is tied to the wal
Jagger POVWatching my brother almost go through everything I went through has become my worst nightmare. The way he was barely breathing while we tried to find Grace was killing me. I don’t wish that pain on anyone, especially not on my twin brother. He is everything to me. He is the only person I can rely on. “Are you sure you want to do this?” Ghost asks and I nod as he wraps my wrists and hands. Ghost has become a good friend in the last few months. “You can still leave,” he adds, and I shake my head. “Are you trying to get into my head?” I ask, looking directly into his dark eyes. and he shakes his head, cocking his head to the side slightly. When I am done, I walk out of the changing rooms straight into the cage where I am about to have my first underground fight. Ghost introduced me to this world and I come here every time I want to distract myself. There’s something therapeutic for me watching people bleed. “Remember what I told you,” Ghost says and I nod. This is an under