Empire of Carnage: Book 3 (Reina Del Cártel: A Why Choose Dark Romance) by Santana Knox

Author:Santana Knox [Knox, Santana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Baneful Ink Publishing
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

22

Celia

The best part about this whole fundraiser gala was that all I had to do was throw money at it. An absolute joy for someone like me who needed minimal interaction with people outside my personal circle.

At the end of the day, I just wanted to tell my people what they needed to do and expect it to get done. It was a fair request to keep myself out of social situations unless they absolutely required it.

The gala demanded it unfortunately, but at least all I needed to do was show up and look hot.

Which I was failing to do.

The Prada box was opened, and the dress was already laid out on the bed for me. Ronan’s choice, because I’d still yet to develop a sense of personal style. I really was more of a sweatpants and someone else’s T-shirt kinda gal. But this was the event of the year, and it was a big fucking deal.

I painted my lips a dark plum color, opening my lips into an O shape to let the matte shade dry. I was never quite fucking sure if you were supposed to do that or press your lips together to spread the color around.

I was really inept at all this feminine stuff, but it’s not like I had someone to teach me. I spent most of my childhood as my father’s shadow and when we were forced to be apart my mother wasn’t discreet in her desire to keep me at a distance.

Her own fucked up way of protecting herself.

I guess I wouldn’t want to get close to my kid either if I knew the chances were high that they were going to grow up to kill my husband. I loved my papá, but I was glad he died because, in reality, the odds would have been against us. Historically, time proved cártel seats weren’t passed down in peace, they were taken with blood and glory.

The birth control implant in my arm itched from the thought of breeding. The idea alone was laughable. I was thirty years old and probably hadn’t even processed a third of my childhood trauma yet. Was I gonna pop some kid out and chain him to that dungeon like my father did to me for the sake of making them a ‘better person’? Was I going to force my child into something they likely wouldn’t have chosen on their own if they could understand?

No.

I wouldn’t be bringing a child into this fucked up world.

I stuck on the sticky strapless bra to my left boob, hooking it onto the right to create the insane illusion of cleavage that I’d never achieve on my own. I wasn’t even fully dressed for the night yet and I was already looking forward to taking all this mierda off and crawling into a pair of Ronan’s boxers and one of Mateo’s shirts.

The three of them walked into the room just as I stepped into the dress, pulling it up to my shoulders and giving them my back so one of them could do the clasps.

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