Bound You: A Forced Proximity Mafia Romance (Dark Tales Book 10) by Teresa Wolf

Author:Teresa Wolf [Wolf, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

ROCCO

I barely know her, and I’m already lost to her perfection.

Shay Cayden’s an inescapable drug that hooked me from the very second I laid eyes on her. Her beautiful face, her incredible body, and the way she calms me down when I feel out of control. Even now, as we sit beside Vincent Lombardi’s hospital bed, listening to the life support machines tick away, I can’t stop staring at her.

“Do you think he’s going to be alright?” Shay asks. Her eyes haven’t left Vincent’s lifeless body.

“I don’t know. I sure hope so,” I reply. “You might not believe me when I say it, but he’s a good man. Somewhere deep inside, anyway.”

It’s easy for me to say. Vincent gave me a new life when all hope was gone. He might’ve used me as a weapon, but he sure as hell isn’t the man who made me one. That blame falls on my father, the sick fuck who thought training me to kill was better than giving me an education. But that’s the way of the world. If you live by the sword, you better be prepared to die by it, too.

“You seem to hold him in high opinion for a man who’s done a lot of bad things,” Shay says.

“As I said, the good side of Vincent Lombardi is tucked deep inside. He took me away from a bad life and gave me a good home. He taught me strong values,” I chuckle. “Even though it might not exactly seem like it.”

“He made you a killer,” Shay says.

“No,” I shake my head. “Vincent didn’t have any part to play in that. That blame goes to my old man. He was a drug dealer back in the eighties and didn’t think raising a book-smart kid was worth the hassle. He kicked the shit out of me, taught me to fight, and taught me to kill. ‘ Said it was the only way I’d survive in this messed up world.”

The thoughts of my father stir some unwanted emotions inside of me. My body moves out of instinct, and I chew a nail abstractedly. It makes me feel weak in front of Shay. Chewing on my nail like a damned child, because I don’t have any other outlet to release stress.

Shay reaches out and takes the hand I’m nibbling on. She caresses my knuckles with a few of her fingers. The motion is soothing.

“He sounds like a real dick,” Shay says.

It gets a chuckle from both of us.

“He was, but his tyranny didn’t last long once Vincent picked me up.”

Instead of me, Vincent put a bullet in my dad’s head for the real Rocco’s death. I killed him to defend my father, and where the Lombardi organization smiled on me, they didn’t give a drug peddler on their turf the same good graces.

“Well, isn’t this cute? The bulky brute and his little princess,” Emilio’s voice hits my ear. He’s leaning against the doorway with crossed arms, shadily staring at Shay and me.

We were so lost in conversation that I didn’t even notice his arrival.

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