Gilded Kisses: A Reverse Harem Mafia Romance (The Gilded Key Society Book 1) by Penelope Wylde

Author:Penelope Wylde [Wylde, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Eight

Mirsha

Ihave every intention of walking out of The Gilded Key tonight as its new owner. Well, one-third owner. Everything I touch, I share with my two best friends. We tried buying this place three years back, but after the fallout with Aster and her father, we left the country for a while.

But now we are back.

Italy was nice. Mexico has some of the best damn tequila a man can lose his senses on. And you haven’t lived unless you’ve consumed Raki in a Turkish bathhouse.

We thought distance would break the ties we have with Aster but it’s only made it worse and I can’t take much more booze before my liver dies, taking me along with it.

We’ve been back stateside for a little over a month. The urge to break down her father’s prison door, steal his daughter and take her captive like fucking animals only plagues my mind half the day. The other half is used for sleeping or chasing down the owners of this place to complete the deal.

I know beyond any doubt, Viper won’t fucking sleep until it’s ours. So here I am, wishing I could be anywhere else. Thousands of miles or a few hundred doesn’t matter. But now there aren’t borders or oceans to keep me in check. It’s been three years since tasting her lips on mine and it’s worse than getting lost in the desert. My chest tightens at the knowledge and I swallow down the dry sand of loneliness with another mouthful of bourbon.

“You can glower in that window all you want. I told you why we have to close this deal. It’s the only part of her we have. I want it. You two fuckers can go drown your pitiful asses at the bottom of a bourbon bottle later. After I get your names on the sale contract.”

I raise my glass and down the rest of my top-self Kentucky Straight. It kicks, burns and then mellows as it hits the back of my throat.

“He’s in a particular mood tonight, isn’t he, Mirsha?”

My gaze glides across the room to Luther lounging on a nearby couch, his arm thrown across the back. He balances his drink on his knee. We’ve holed up for the last week in The Gilded Key. I’m starting to think of this suite as a prison rather than a fantasy land. It’s been a constant back and forth between the owners and their intermediary, Raja.

“It’s better than it was when we were in Mexico. He was a miserable fucker then. Now he’s just being a pain in the ass.”

Viper isn’t listening to us though. He has his phone out and pulls up the number of the broker working the buyout deal.

“Raja. Any word?” From what we hear, he does everything from filling the club’s performance stages with new talent to luring in new members. He helped a few friends of ours up in Seattle land a gig that ended with them getting a Constantine girl knocked up. It all turned out with no dead bodies, but marrying the enemy must have them sleeping with one eye open.

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