His Mafioso Princess by Terri Anne Browning

Author:Terri Anne Browning [Browning, Terri Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna Henson
Published: 2017-08-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Victoria

The texts and calls wouldn’t stop. They were constant, never ending, and with each one that made my phone go off, the ice wall I had built around my heart tried to crack.

At first, I refused to read them, but as more and more came in until my voicemail was full and wouldn’t accept any more, I realized that maybe there would be something in one of them that would point me in the right direction of my goal hurting him as he had hurt me.

Making sure that door was locked, I buried myself under my covers in an attempt to protect my heart from the pain I was about to inflict upon myself.

The first crack came as soon as I heard his voice. The deep, slight huskiness still had the ability to caress every inch of my body. But there was something different in his voice, too.

Pain.

No, I refused to believe that the answer was that simple. That my walking away from him two nights ago had caused him anything more than a small irritation.

The second crack came at the use of that damn nickname he had given me. Kotyonok. It tried to warm me, but my heart was too frozen to be moved by something as little as a pet name. It pissed me off that he had likened me to a kitten. A defenseless, meek little kitten. That was how he had seen me, and what I had let him believe.

He was wrong.

I wasn’t meek, and I sure as hell wasn’t defenseless.

I wasn’t a kitten. I was a motherfucking tigress.

I erased the voicemail before he could get out more than a handful of words. The next message instantly began.

“I know nothing I say will make you forgive me, kotyonok. I have no excuses for what I did. None. I kept Klara from you, and I would do it again. Because it gave me a moment in time with you that I will never regret.”

He blew out a breath, and at the sound, the third crack hit my ice wall, vibrating through my entire chest and out into all my limbs, making me tremble. My chin began to wobbly, but I clenched my jaw and closed my eyes.

Delete! my mind screamed at me.

Listen, was my heart’s demand through the mile-thick layer of frozen wasteland I had spent the last two days erecting around it.

With fingers that shook, I hit delete.

“Please, just tell me you’re okay. I haven’t heard your voice, other than this goddamn voicemail recording in two days. I need to know you’re safe, kotyonok. A two-word text; that’s all I’m asking for.”

The combination of plea mixed with commanding authority shouldn’t have made my heart squeeze, but it did.

A dozen more messages said the same thing, each one growing more demanding. I told myself that it wasn’t desperation I heard in his voice. That after what he had done to me, he couldn’t possibly care if I was alive or dead in some back alley. Our time together might have been short, but it had been magical for me.

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