Fierce King: a Billionaire Mafia Romance (Dark Throne Book 1) by Ivy Mason

Author:Ivy Mason [Mason, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beast Press
Published: 2021-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

This was probably the stupidest thing I'd ever done. In fact, there was no probably about it, it was, plain and simple.

Bringing her here was the beginning of the end for me, but it was as inevitable as the sun setting after the day.

I was compelled to do it, just as the moon is compelled to gravitate to the earth, following along the path long laid out for it centuries ago.

Her anguish, clear from her behavior, made me act, and now my fate was sealed.

I was leading Rose to the King estate with her hand cradled in mine like we were lovers on our way to a wedding. Except the only bells tolling for us were death knolls.

It was wrong on so many levels, and yet, I couldn’t let her hand go. Couldn’t stop touching her. Couldn’t stop the passage leading me into Dante’s inferno: with Nero's revelation, I was duty bound to help her.

I meant my promise earlier. I would help her get out of this situation, as soon as it was safe to move her.

Coulter and Nero were gone for their annual trip. Most fathers took their kids fishing or something sentimental and sweet. Bonding time.

Not Nero. Bonding time to him meant proving you were a man. A King.

He dropped us off in the middle of the desert with nothing but a knife, and made us find our way back to the cabin.

He'd started that tradition with me when I turned ten, and I'd returned to our cabin, starving and barely alive. My whole body was sunburnt, red and blistered, and I'd felt like my stomach was going to shrivel up and die, I was so hungry.

The next year was a little bit better, I'd managed to find a horned lizard to eat, though I threw up for days afterwards because I hadn’t cooked it.

Every year I got better, finding my way quicker and finding and killing bigger animals, especially figuring out how to start a fire with only things you could find in the desert.

Then Nero introduced the ‘hunters’, one of his guards hired to stalk us down and try to kill us.

That year was the first time I'd ever killed anyone, lucky that the guard’s gun had jammed.

And now, it was a yearly tradition for both Coulter and I. Even though Nero’s intentions were to fuck with our minds, we'd actually learned how to survive off the land and how to find our way while in the desert by the north star.

This weekend was Coulter's turn, and they wouldn't return for a couple of days.

Coulter's mother always used the time as an excuse to get away for the weekend, taking my younger, half-brothers with me, so there was minimal staff in the house. Now was the perfect time to bring her here.

We stepped past the rows of enormous bushes meant to separate the maids’ house from ours and Rose's eyes grew wide at the sight of the huge mansion looming before us.

"That's your house?" Her voice sounded a little bit jealous and a lot bit incredulous.

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