His Love is Pain: A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance (Amatucci Family Book 2) by Sadie Jacks

Author:Sadie Jacks [Jacks, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 24 – Ryker

I paced the living area as Jessa talked to Willow. It killed me that Jessa wanted to talk to Willow alone. That she’d asked I move away from the door even. Jessa didn’t ask much, and since it was for Willow…I’d caved.

“Sit the fuck down, Penn. You’re giving me a headache,” Nico said as he came back into the room. “The smash, smash, smash of your shoes is like a jackhammer in my brain.” He stalked to the seat he’d occupied earlier, eased down into its depths. He slouched down, rested his head on the back.

“Sorry.” I moved over to the couch Willow had been stretched out on. “How’re you feeling?”

“Like shit,” he mumbled. “Are we supposed to share our feelings and braid each other’s hair now that Turo let you in the family?”

I snarled, held up my hands. “Fine. Sorry. Damn.” I was on edge. Tangling with Nico wasn’t going to help calm me down either.

I drummed my fingers on my thighs. Tried to will the women to hurry up. I wanted Willow in my arms. And I wanted her in my arms without anyone else in the house. I was about at my limit of sharing her.

I needed to make sure we were okay. That the fiasco with my mom hadn’t damaged any part of our budding relationship. I was under no misconceptions that Willow had one foot out the door. That she was just waiting for me to screw up so she could leave.

Knowing how often I truly screwed up…I clenched my teeth. She wasn’t leaving. Or if she did, I was going with her.

“I didn’t know your mom was a lawyer,” Nico said, his voice tired.

I nodded. “Yeah. After she got out from under my dad’s roof, she went back to school.” Pride, anger, betrayal, and a whole symphony of other emotions echoed through me again.

I was so proud of my mom and what she’d made of her life. Her second husband was a saint comparatively speaking. Then again, it would be hard to be worse. I also got Corrie, my half-sister from that union.

But a small, hurt, broken piece of me was still mad at her. Fucking furious. For sticking around with my dad for that long. For letting him hurt both of us. For letting him be more important than both of us.

The other side of that hurt anger was the guilt that ravaged my soul at being angry. I knew as an adult all the different things that had held her back. That made leaving impossible. But I also knew as an adult all the things she could have done differently. To have made it less terrifying for both of us. That, at its base, it had been fear. Simple, soul-crushing fear that had made our lives a living hell.

And as much as I loved Corrie, I hated that she had the life I’d dreamt of for so many years. Even with having a body riddled with cancer, her life was easier in some ways.

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