Dax: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance (Mob Daddies Book 4) by Alexa Hart

Author:Alexa Hart [Hart, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Dax

I pour myself a glass of whiskey and stare out the window of my private office. So as not to disturb Lily with my work, I set up my office on the opposite side of the penthouse. Tonight, I am glad for the distance for a new reason. A seductive new problem I brought home with me named Hannah Gibbons.

The window of my office faces the harbor, and from where I stand, I look away from the streets of my past with a needed distance and focus on the water. I own the marina and half the boats. Hell, I own half this city. And I want more. I take a sip of whiskey. I’ve sent Aster home for the night and now the file on Hannah Gibbons is open on my desk and I sit back down and stare at it for the third time. The information is there but there are questions, things that don’t add up.

I’ve asked Carl to dig deeper, but for now, this is what I know. Hannah Gibbons. Age 24. She was raised by a single mother who worked as a high school teacher until her death from breast cancer last year. Her and her mother lived in modest apartments, but Hannah had money enough growing up. She went to a fancy school, took private dance lessons, excelled at ballet from an early age… how did her mother afford all of that? No mention of a father, but clearly someone’s been acting as a benefactor. Hannah attended Juilliard and then worked as a ballerina for the Boston Ballet, mostly ensemble work but a good career trajectory. She left the company after her mother got sick and didn’t go back after her mother died. Now she’s heavily in debt and the benefactor seems to have vanished. Why?

Hannah’s background has too many loose ends. And I don’t like loose ends.

I also don’t like that I brought her here. When I explained it to Aster, she argued, quite fairly, that there were plenty of other less intimate methods of keeping her safe. I know she’s right, but when I’d seen the look of fear and pain on her face I couldn’t leave her. The only way I’ll know for sure that she’s safe is if she’s with me. It’s like a compulsion. The same compulsion that led me to fuck her that night and like any addict, I gave in when I was offered a fix.

So now she’s here. In my penthouse. And worse, Lily took to her immediately. I could tell. Seeing them together stirred something in me that I haven’t felt in years. I had a feeling the warmth she radiated toward that mangy dog of hers, toward me when I was some injured stranger, hell, even those old music boxes, would probably extend to children too. Lily is easy to love, but because she’s my daughter, people tend to use her as a way to get to me, for better or worse. But Hannah is different.

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