Devil in Ruin: Dark Mafia Romance : Blurred Lines by Trisha Wolfe

Author:Trisha Wolfe [Wolfe, Trisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lock Key Press
Published: 2022-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

10

Deep in the earth my love is lying

Brianna

My mother used to say: a woman who rebels causes fear.

I was young when she first told me this, whispered in her soft cadence. I didn’t quite understand or fully comprehend her meaning at the time. I remember expecting the second half, as if there was another part to this saying that she was holding back, waiting for the right moment to impart on me.

I regret I never asked her before she died.

Although, with the help of my aunt’s wisdom and deprograming, I’ve been able to grasp what my mother might have been trying to convey.

I understand now that a woman amid the clan who rebels against her place is seen as uncontrollable, disobedient, and an embarrassment to her husband and the male members of her family, making the men appear weak in their inability to dominate her.

But more so, this deep-rooted fear stems from her very defiance. If a woman thinks and acts for herself, if she rebels and stands up to the clans and the archaic rules and structure, then the whole system starts to dismantle from the inside.

Because it’s the women who make up the foundation to which these men have free reign to profit off of. As it’s the woman’s role to help and support the men, everything we do must be in the interest of the organization.

We are the nurturers, and we make sure our men are cared for and tended to. Placing money on our sons’ and husbands’ jail commissaries while they’re serving their sentence. Moving money between organizations unnoticed, through our small hobby businesses, so it’s undetected by authorities. Even running drugs in our own vehicles with our children in the backseats.

I’ve heard claim to all and more.

And how does the clan repay our loyalty, our servitude?

I once heard my father say: “The bitch that can no longer look you in the eye must be killed, and killed quickly, or else she’ll bite you.”

You are either loyal to the 'Ndrangheta, or you are dead to them.

Contemplative, I circle my finger over the cool marble of the kitchen island, remembering that first conversation with my aunt where she revealed her secret operation. She’s risking her life to liberate women who want out of the 'Ndrangheta.

Should my father ever learn of the women in his family involved in a betrayal of this magnitude, he would punish his own sister in the most debasing and public way to make an example of her, to redirect that fear back into us.

And this is why, when Nic storms through the front doors of his home, covered in blood and pain and eyes blazing, I’m torn—torn between the nurturing side instilled in me, and the fearful but fierce inward voice intoning that I should run and leave him to suffer.

I push away from the island as he stalks through the arched doorway. His eyes rove over me in heated pursuit, and I’m unsure whether he’s taking stock of my person or deciding where to strike first.

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