Antonio POV.I am 100% certain that Carmella turning up here a few days ago was all orchestrated by her and Gianni. He hurt her, my tiger. I should have seen this sooner. It makes sense my own brother could be working against me. It is no secret he is still pissed at the title of Don being passed to me. But I didn’t get fucking trigger happy when I was seventeen and killed someone he shouldn’t have. Plus, there is the fact that he has been against my tiger from the beginning, speaks volumes.When I saw my tiger screaming and crying on her knees, looking frightened when he hit her. I lost it and fought with him. He came out worse off. He and his whore were both escorted out of the mansion and he hasn’t been heard from or seen since. No doubt drowning his sorrows in pussy, booze and coke. Typical Gianni.As for Carmella, she has been blowing up my phone, and I have ignored all her calls and messages. I am back to square zero with Bobbi. I would say square one, but right now there is no
Teagan POV.I can’t unsee what I have seen. Sarah’s body was just dumped, naked, bruised and mutilated. I have seen bodies before, but never someone I knew a few days before. The last time I saw her, she was telling me to be careful with José, and even though I knew I had to be careful. I never thought he would do this.I know I have said I can do this, but seeing her like that, I can’t do this on my own. I would be a fucking fool to think otherwise. I need to take this seriously and that means letting the bravado go. I don’t get scared easily, but that. That scared me. That will be me!I wasn’t acting when I cried and sobbed or even shook. That was all real, and it has now hit me just how messed up all this is. I don’t like being vulnerable, but right now I am more vulnerable than I have been since I was a child. This has been an eye-opener, and it has taken me to see the body of the girl who would have been a good friend to make me realise I’m well and truly fucked.I don’t remember
Antonio POV.Hearing my brother say he was leaving the family to be with the woman he loved hit me hard. Gianni may be many things he may be a giant pain in my ass, but to make the decision to leave the family. I never thought that would happen.“We need to send a message back to them.” Gianni says, and I nod my head. Yeah, we do, but if we do that, then we are no better than them. Granted, we don’t mutilate women. That is something we don’t do. Sure, we have killed women, well not me personally, but my father and brother both have and I know they have more than once.“What do you suggest? The only person that fucker has shown interest in is my woman. I will not be using her as bait. We want him dead and the only way to do that is to trap him, lure him out. He will come. How did she end up on the property in the back garden? That is what I want to know?” I say as I look around the dining table at my father, brother, and other capos.“There was a delivery that was sent to the front doo
Teagan POV.Every cell in my body is on fire when he kisses me. I find myself grinding on him as I bite his lip and suck on his skilled tongue. He groans into my mouth. I need to forget; I need to feel.Breaking the kiss, I’m panting, my chest heaving. He is looking into my eyes. My lips are swollen and will be bruised. His hand moves from the back of my neck to my throat, his thumb moves up my jaw.“Antonio.” I moan out when I tilt my head back as I grind down on him, my eyes roll into the back of my head. The hand that was on my waist moves up to squeeze my breast, causing me to hiss. I look back at him, my mouth slightly open as I move harder with a slight growl when I shove him down.My hand moves to his throat as I attack his lips once more. Taking what I want and need. Not caring who he is, I need this. I squeeze his throat. His eyes go wide when he flips us over and I squeal when my back hits the mattress. He straddles me. My chest heaving, my traitorous pussy is clenching arou
Teagan POV.Waking in strong warm arms, the steady rise and fall of a chest against my back. I know where I am. What we did, what I let happen, what I wanted to happen. This is getting out of control.I stiffen as he tightens his hold on me. This was a huge fucking mistake. Then I remember why I’m doing this. But is it worth it? Sarah died, the amount of people that will die because of me. I can’t be responsible. I refuse to be responsible for the deaths of people, regardless of if they deserve it or not.I wiggle free of his hold and leave the bed, not looking at him in any way. I walk to the door and open it and see Marco. He looks at me; I ignore the look of pity in his eyes. Why is he looking at me like that?I walk to the bedroom that has been given to me. I open the door and close it behind me. I pace deep in thought, my hands in my hair. This needs to end. The man in my house said the boss wants to see me. This boss, whoever he is, is sending a message to rile up Antonio and hi
Teagan POV.The first time I got into a physical fight, I was sixteen. Donny Williams asked me out to the movies as friends. I didn’t think anything of it, so I agreed. Little did I know at the time he asked me to piss off his recent ex-girlfriend, Grace Mitchell.I had dressed casually, jeans and a sweater with my converse. He met me at the theatre and we brought popcorn and sodas. Not a date, just two friends hanging out. Well, Grace found out and turned up with her cronies. They dumped the popcorn on my head and poured my soda on me.I left the movie theatre with Donny, who was apologising for what happened; I didn’t want to hear it. I told him it was ok, which it wasn’t. No sooner had we left the theatre than I was attacked from behind by Grace.She called me an orphaned whore, who stole her man. Bitch please, he was sixteen and nowhere near a man. She grabbed my hair. We were both screaming and shouting as she flung me round like a rag doll. Her cronies hit me a few times. Then s
Antonio POV.Storming out of her bedroom, I need to clear my head. She is playing a game with me and boy, is she playing it so damn well. I run a hand through my hair as I storm down the stairs, hearing the cries of Carmella.I enter the living room and see her getting her face tended to. I look at her, her eyes meet mine, and I wince. Damn tiger, she did a number on her face and only used her fists.“What did you say to her?” I demand, as I storm into the room and look down at her. She reaches to touch my hand, but I don’t move away. Carmella may have been my whore, but she was loyal and I’m an asshole for leading her on all those years. She is nothing like the confident sex goddess she was, no she looks broken and raw. Her eyes are taking on a purple tinge, her eyes are bloodshot.I sigh as I tell Alonso to leave us and I personally tend to her wounds. Do I feel guilty that this happened to her? Sort of. I’m not completely heartless. Carmella was once my friend before she became my
Teagan POV.I was stuck watching Antonio fucking Carmella, but at that moment, I wasn’t just seeing them. I was seeing all the women my dad brought home and the secretary bent over Josh’s desk. Every moan from them both pulled me deeper into those memories.I didn’t blink or move; I stood frozen. My heart breaking all over again. The pain, the betrayal, the need to run away. But also the insatiable need to hurt them, all of them. If my dad was still alive, I would probably kill him for what he did to me. The neglect, the hurtful words. Hearing another moan, I blink rapidly.I remember the women who took pity on me. They would buy me food and clothes. They would come around the house when my dad wasn’t there to take care of me. It was never the same woman twice.Then, with Josh, I thought those wounds would heal with him. Josh was a great man until he wasn’t. We had started to build a life together; we talked about marriage, kids, the whole nine yards. Then he stabbed me in the back an