Empress of Savages: A dark mafia reverse harem romance (The 'F' Word Book 3) by Alice May Ball

Author:Alice May Ball [Ball, Alice May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TzR Publishing
Published: 2024-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

These three men are real. But so is my dread and unease from being in this terrible house. I can’t think straight.

The house itself is spooky enough that it could have vampires sleeping in coffins in the cellars, but that’s not the horror that I’m feeling. Things happened here. Memories are in these walls. Memories I don’t want to rediscover.

The Warrior tries to settle me back into the pillows, I’m still reeling and resisting. The Mastermind steps into the light of the conservatory and moves to the other side of me. The Emperor is approaching.

My whole universe is in flux. I barely understand who I am, and everything tilts and shifts like some twisted fantasy of a theme-park ride.

The Warrior’s lips brush my neck.

My head spins.

I shout, “Wait!”

I jump up. “I can’t do this.” The three men are closing around me. There’s too much going on in my head.

Behind me, the Mastermind calls out a name. but I can’t hear it. I bust out of the conservatory, take the first turn, grab the handle of the first door I come to and twist it. Slipping inside, I shut the door behind me and lean back against it.

It’s a dark, masculine room. A wall of bookshelves, a dark rug — my heart stops, stuffed leather chairs, maps, I can’t breathe.

The big desk. No! This is where the attack was.

Turning, I grab the door handle and yank the door open again. The Mastermind is there, with his arms open. He wraps me in an embrace. Holds me in a hug that I’ve wanted, needed for so very long.

But not here. Not in this house.

The Warrior rushes up behind him.

Behind them, the Emperor. My eyes turn back to the room. The study.

I look in the Emperor’s eyes.

“He was your father.”

The Mastermind looks at me, questioning. “The Don?”

“Yes. I killed him.”

“No,” the Emperor steps forward. “Mrs. Jago killed him. The housekeeper. Well, supposedly the housekeeper. Do you remember her?”

“No.” But a pang of dread grips my insides at the sound of her name.

“She found out he was having an affair with a much younger woman. So she shot him. In the dining room.”

She shot him, yes. but I killed him. Sometime, I have to tell his son. I can’t keep the secret forever. But not now, for fuck’s sake. I can’t get into that now, when I can’t remember anything else.

The Warrior says, “You must remember her cooking.”

With a wry smile, the Mastermind says, “It would be a blessing if you didn’t. I wish I could forget that.”

Panic and terror rip through me. I pull free and then barge through, between them. They call after me. I run back up toward the entrance hall. The huge space makes my head spin and I swerve. Dive into a dark, paneled room.

Memories float around me, pictures without sound. Words without sense. Through there I come to the dining room.

Echoes of cold, heavy silences, and of black moods from the head of the table pour into my head.

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