Killer's Mark: A Dark Mafia Romance (Barone Syndicate Book 1) by Natalie Tryst

Author:Natalie Tryst [Tryst, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

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GINA

When I get home, Lexi is there. She’s eating tortellini from a bowl while sitting on the couch watching Big Brother. “I got the TV all set up,” she points her fork at the tv hanging on the wall.

“Nice,” I nod. I toss my gym bag in my room and then grab a protein shake from the fridge and join Lexi on the couch.

I get one sip down and I can feel Lexi looking at me. I try to ignore her. Out of the corner of my eye I can see that she has continued eating, but hasn’t stopped staring at me.

Finally, I look at her. “What?” I ask. But I know what she’s doing.

Lexi grins at me. “You didn’t stay here last night, did you?”

I try to keep my face straight, but I can’t help smiling.

“Luca?” She asks.

“Yeah.” I nod.

“Damn girl!” She shakes her head and goes back to her food and television show.

I’m surprised but relieved she doesn’t ask me for more details. Still, I have questions that I feel like she should ask me. Instead, I ask Lexi, “Do you think it’s too soon?”

“Hell no! 21 is super late to lose your virginity.”

“Shut up! I mean, am I jumping into things with Luca too soon after I just ended it with Archie?”

“What does that matter?” Lexi’s pretty blunt about these things. She doesn’t seem to overthink things as much as I do. Sometimes I wish I could be more like her.

“I don’t know.” I try to think about where my doubt is coming from. “I never felt free to be myself when I was with Archie. I don’t want things to be like that again.”

“Do you feel that way when you’re with Luca?”

The answer is obvious to me. “No. I feel more free when I’m with him. He actually encourages me to live the way I want to.”

“Then what’s the problem?”

“What if it changes? What if it turns into another situation like I had with Archie? Or my father? Always wanting me to do something I had no interest in?”

“Don’t let that happen,” Lexi says. I almost reply ‘easier said than done,’ but I don’t. “And if it starts going that way, ditch him.” Lexi looks at me with a serious look that I rarely see in her. “You had bad experiences with past relationships. Bad experiences are still experience. You’re too aware of it to let it happen again. I think the worst thing you can do is avoid something good because you afraid it’s not going to stay good. If you keep worrying that this will turn out like things in the past, you’re not even giving it a chance.”

“That’s true.” I drink the last of my shake. “Just because things happened in the past, it doesn’t mean everything will go the same way in the future.”

Lexi nods. “You’re more experienced than you were before. Especially after last night…” Lexi grins at me and takes a bite of her tortellini.

I shake my head at her. There’s value in what she said though.

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