Blood Money (Marchesi Loan Sharks Book 1) by Silvia Violet

Author:Silvia Violet [Violet, Silvia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

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LIAM

My heart thudded against my chest as I watched Val walk into the store. The breakfast he’d bought me had formed a lump in my stomach. I was so fucking confused. I didn’t know how to read him. One minute he was babying me, and the next minute he had his hand around my throat threatening me. He said he was a monster, and God knows he’d treated me like one the night before, except I’d loved most of it. But a monster wouldn’t care where I was sleeping. He wouldn’t care about anything but me paying him back. It wouldn’t matter if that ultimately killed me as long as he got what he wanted, my body and my money.

Which side of him was the real Valentino? I didn’t know and if I could help it, he wasn’t going to know the real me either. All he knew about me right now was that I was a damn good dancer, I’d gotten myself into a desperate situation where I was willing to go to a loan shark, and I was living in a storage unit with hardly any money for groceries.

That didn’t sound very good. How the hell was I going to keep this up? So far, I’d managed to find enough money to keep my car running and buy enough gas to get back and forth to work, but how long would that last?

It would take me at least an hour to walk from the storage unit to Pound, and while I could ride the bus to work, I would have to walk back at night when there wasn’t any transportation. If I couldn’t buy gas, I sure as hell couldn’t afford a car service.

But if I let Val pay for an apartment, then he was paying my debt, and he said he wouldn’t do that. If I had to pay for it myself from my Pound earnings, it would add to my debt. I really would be an indentured servant. It would take years for me to pay it off, if I even could with interest piling up. I’d be stuck having to dance at Val’s club and fuck him whenever he wanted.

There were worse ways to live, but I wasn’t ready to let go of the hope that I was going to get out from under this and be able to be my own person again. No matter how much I loved the way Val touched me, no matter how conflicted he might be about whether to treat me roughly or take care of me, that ultimately didn’t matter. He was a loan shark and an enforcer. I’d watched him kill two men already for doing nothing but touch me.

Sure, they deserved to be punished, but he’d acted as judge, jury, and executioner, and that wasn’t going to change. He wasn’t going to walk away from his family. The only hope I had of staying with him was if he could convince his father to let him keep me.

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