Brutal Enforcer: A Dark Mafia Beauty and the Beast Romance (Castillo Cartel Book 2) by Bella Ash

Author:Bella Ash [Ash, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

Omar

I wasn't sure what her reaction would be to the news that her father and fiancé left her for dead…but it wasn't this. Lyse sat beside me, staring at the bedspread beneath her fingers. “Conejita?” She barely stirred. “Lyse, talk to me.”

“What do you want me to say, Omar?” she asked, and her voice sounded far away.

I wanted to sit up, to hold her, but whenever I tried, my head would swim, and she would press me back down. “Are you sad?” I asked. “Angry? It’s okay to feel…whatever you’re feeling right now.”

She was quiet for a moment. “What are you going to do now that you’ve lost your leverage?”

She’s asking if I’m going to kill her, I thought dumbly. “By rights, you know what I should do.”

Her breath shuddered. “Are you going to?”

Gritting my teeth, I forced myself up, fighting my swimming vision.

She let out a little cry. “Lie down! What are you doing?”

I cupped her face, tracing the apple of her cheek with my thumb. “Who do you belong to, conejita?” Lyse’s gaze met mine. Tears shimmered in her dark eyes. “Who. Do. You. Belong. To?”

“You,” she said.

I pulled her in and kissed her. It wasn’t chaste; it wasn’t gentle. I forced her lips open with my tongue, and I claimed her until she whimpered and pressed into my touch. “You’re mine, Lyse,” I said against her mouth. “I don’t break what’s mine. Understand?”

Lyse sniffled. “You don’t?”

“Never,” I swore. “I protect what’s mine.”

She kissed me, soft but insistent, and we settled back together so that she was in my arms again. We were quiet for a long while. “I knew that my family saw me as a business transaction,” she said. Her voice was muted. “That’s normal for us, right? But…” She sniffled. “I thought they felt something for me.” She looked up at me. “Families are supposed to have some kind of affection for each other, right?”

“I don’t know,” I admitted. I couldn’t truly say that I loved anyone outside of my siblings. “Matteo sticks up for you, right?”

She shrugged. “He and I have a good relationship, but he would never go against Apá’s wishes.” Lyse swiped at her eyes. Tears were wetting my shirt. “He would never protect me from him.”

“I will,” I declared, feeling nearly savage. “I’ll protect you from everything.”

“From your family?” she asked.

“That won’t happen.”

She scoffed. “I’m a Rojas, even abandoned as I am,” she said. “They’ll never accept me.”

I tightened my hold on her, until my muscles were screaming from the strain. “They will,” I promised. “I’ll make sure of it.”

“But if they don’t?”

“Then we’ll figure something out.” I pressed my lips against the top of her head. “I would do anything for you.” It was a bold declaration, and I wasn’t even sure why I said it…but I knew that I would. Was that love? I wasn’t sure, but I had never felt this way before.

“Anything?” Lyse asked, and her voice was teasing now.

“Anything,” I said. “You want your father’s head on a platter? I’ll bring it to you personally.

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