Deceptive Knight (Street Kings) by Sienna Snow

Author:Sienna Snow [Snow, Sienna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948756266
Publisher: Sienna Snow
Published: 2022-02-09T18:30:00+00:00

12

Lilly

I stared at my reflection in the giant mirror inside Rey’s enormous bathroom.

It felt strange, almost surreal, being in here.

Hell, the moment I’d stepped into his penthouse, a sense of uncertainty had settled in my stomach. As if sharing space with Rey again was setting myself up for disaster, for an even bigger heartache than I already knew was coming.

My life revolved around pretenses, and this assignment wouldn’t stop blurring the lines.

And it was all Devani’s fault.

Bitch.

Less than five minutes after Rey and I had walked out of the museum and climbed into his car, Devani had informed me that I’d moved into Rey’s penthouse. Immediately.

What the ever-loving fuck?

Pushing down my irritation, I washed my face and reapplied my makeup, something appropriate for the Dove Club.

And what a club it was.

Of all the places that Craig Felix could have invited us to, it was a kink club.

I wondered if Rey’s investigation on me had revealed that the open-to-new-experiences, free-thinking, almost-twenty-two-year-old Lilly Lennox of nearly seven years ago had visited fetish clubs in Berlin with her friends. It was at one of those places I’d met my ex, Kane.

It still pissed me off—how stupid I was with the fucker. God, I was so naive. The signs were everywhere that something wasn’t quite right with him, but I’d ignored them, thinking his family was connected to mine, so he was safe. One of the big ones should have been that he never wanted me to come to the club, especially with my friends who were members, and seemed annoyed whenever I showed up. Later, I’d learned the club was where he met up with his Russian contacts.

At least I had small satisfaction in knowing that after I’d financially crippled Kane’s family, Papa and his allies had wielded their forms of justice on them and the other families who’d betrayed him.

Yeah, I sounded bloodthirsty, but the world I grew up in required it. Then again, Solon was no sweet peacemaker organization, and I had the scars to prove it.

I sighed, thinking of the cake still in my refrigerator. If it wasn’t for the current European Directors Council, I wouldn’t have taken such drastic steps to separate myself from my family or destroy my reputation in the art world.

Eventually, I’d have no choice but to leave Rey behind too.

He may never understand it or forgive me, but it was better for him in the long run.

Devani was powerful, but I couldn’t trust the European Directors Council to stay away from me. I was property to them. And sooner or later, they’d pull the same shit they’d done to get me out of hiding—they’d force me to return to Europe and come back under their umbrella.

The more I was around Rey, the more vulnerable I made both of us. I should have kept this thing between us to just sex.

Who was I kidding? Rey was right. It was always more. Nothing was ever just sex with us. Being anywhere near him made me feel too much, want too much.

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