Consumed by the Mafia (De Salvo Family Book 5) by Rose Wulf

Author:Rose Wulf [Wulf, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phoenix Eclipse Publishing
Published: 2024-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

fourteen

Coming Alive

Ryōma’s directions wound them back to the edge of the Passaic, this time inside Newark city limits. Abigail parked the hijacked cab in front of a small, two-story building that was nestled between larger, newer, and better-kept buildings. The one in front of them resembled a clichéd portside warehouse. When they hauled the man responsible for her parents’ murders inside the building, that sense of cliché only escalated.

Two long, parallel tubes of fluorescent lights flickered to life and revealed a wide-open, high-ceilinged space that was undoubtedly the stuff of many nightmares. A lone steel beam ran the length of the ceiling between the lights. Hanging down to the floor from that beam was a thick, ominous chain that reminded Abigail of the one from the basement of the safehouse. Around them the space was sparse. There was a lone chair shoved off to the side, up against the row of lower cabinets that spanned most of one wall. An undecorated butcherblock countertop sat atop those, as if purposefully left open and available.

There was a door off the other wall that, logically, led to another—likely smaller—space. From her current angle, Abigail could see no windows. The concrete floor beneath them had a couple of suspicious gouges, but she couldn’t identify more than that.

“Grab me that chair, baby girl,” Ryōma said as he walked Wells into the center of the room.

Abigail gave herself a shake and moved forward. This was exactly the kind of space she had been hoping to find not even a week ago. Now here she was, being brought into it as an ally and knowing full well she wouldn’t take the action she should. She could hide behind the fact that they were there because Ryōma had taken a captive for her sake, but it was more than that. She knew it, even if she wasn’t ready to put that understanding into words. Instead she grabbed hold of the chair and carried it over to him.

Wells started struggling again. “What the fuck is this? You can’t do this!”

Ryōma shoved him down onto the seat and kept his hands on the man’s shoulders as he leaned forward. “I can—and will—do whatever the fuck I want with you, dirtbag. If that means I want to slice you up and watch you slowly bleed out or die from the terror, that’s what I’ll fucking do. If that means I let Abby empty her clip and mine into your twig-ass body until she feels sated, that’s what I’ll fucking do.”

Abigail pulled in a breath as Ryōma’s words tangled up in her chest. She ought to have felt disgusted. At herself and certainly at the situation. She ought to, but she didn’t. Watching her lover growl into the face of one of her lifelong nightmares both satisfied and triggered something in her that she had no name for. At the same time, his particular choice of wording ignited a feeling she was becoming much more familiar with. She definitely had no business feeling that in this sort of situation.

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