All Chapters of The Alpha's Dhampirica [Mafia Games XII]: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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  ◇ KEL ◇ Present Day

◆ MAGNUS ◆ American soil. Finally. After weeks of lonesome, anxious, sleepless nights in unfamiliar territory... Going home never felt so easy and gratifying until now. At long last. Broad daylight. Free to drive around the city. No unwanted company. No gun-toting punks tailing me everywhere I went. Even better: no demeaning mafia boss telling me what to do. Bossing me around every way he could. Shit. I missed this place and the anonymity. Nothing like living your days and nights of your own accord. Driving to wherever you wanted. Whenever you felt like it. Except now I only had one destination in mind: Evonne. She should be home. Alone. Waiting for me? Highly unlikely, but I still hoped for it. Days on end, I'd been waiting for this, hoping and praying hard for things to go back to normal. I wasn't even the religious type. That last argument shouldn't matter. Shouldn't be the deal-breaker. Things were looking up again. I stepped on the accelerator, letting a smile stay on my

◇ KEL ◇ "Are you frickin' kidding me? Why didn't you just tell me you needed more money? I could've asked Dad." I plugged my earphones in and sighed to myself, minding my best friend's incredulous tone and apparent disappointment in my recent decisions. Although I knew that Gaia's family had some real estate properties under their name, I never tried to borrow money from her or her family for my tuition, student loans, and some of Daddy Jim's hospital bills. I just didn't want to inconvenience them in any way. For the past few years, Gaia had also been busy studying for the bar exams. Clearly she thought I should've just asked her for financial help, instead of borrowing a huge amount of money from Enzo, a guy I just met some months ago. Her point was valid. But, too late for reprimands. I had already paid for loans and hospital bills using Enzo's money. I definitely planned to pay him back as soon as I earned my first paychecks, though. It might take me another year and a

◆ MILES ◆ Brichese, Italy "What now?" "He's livid. He's going to kill me this time." Okay... Death threats at eight in the morning. Great. Just commonplace for anyone in the business, it seemed. Sleepless and enduring another headache, I opened the garage door to let a seething Niccolo in. Between the two of us, I had often been the unpredictable one. The one with daily mood swings, temperament issues. Except for that time when he tried to piss off my father by blackmailing me, Niccolo was my total opposite: he practiced restraint and behaved more maturely. Smart and never a slave to impulses. The type to think rationally before making a move. Almost always in control of his emotions. Until now. The guy looked like he just walked out of a crime scene. We stepped inside my garage to hide from the bodyguards. Some privacy would be necessary. From the look on his face alone, he didn't need to say that something drastic and unlawful happened before he got here. The unmistakable t