Mafia Boss (The Accidental Mafia Queen Book 1) by Khardine Gray

Author:Khardine Gray [Gray, Khardine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bliss Romance Publishing
Published: 2019-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Amelia

I remembered when I’d first met Jordon Blake, the criminal defense attorney who managed to charm me into his life. He’d been my first real, serious relationship. I’d been in love with him, completely and wholeheartedly. If anyone had told me our relationship wouldn’t last forever, I would never have believed them. I might have laughed at the absurdity, because I felt love like ours had to last a lifetime at the very least.

We met on a case and were together for three years. Everything was beautiful. He was beautiful and made me feel beautiful, like I’d somehow gotten this perfect man as a reward for the past I was running from.

Then he changed.

Money—it can be a wonderful thing when you have it, but there’s a reason people say it’s the root of all evil.

It’s because it is. It can change people into something else entirely.

The Jordon I met earned a decent wage and enjoyed doing pro bono work. He was good at his job and soon had weekly requests from firms who wanted him to work for them. He turned them down because he had his eyes set on the state attorney’s office. That was what he wanted to be eventually.

The day came when he got the job he’d been working toward, and with it came an increased salary, triple what he had been earning. He realized he could have whatever he wanted, and the sweet man I loved faded away.

Suddenly, I wasn’t good enough for him, but he kept me around, probably because we’d been together for so long and he felt bad cutting me loose. I wished he had, because I didn’t think I’d ever get the image of him and that bimbo out of my head.

I’d always heard these stories of people coming home when they would normally be away and walking in on their partners cheating. That was what happened to me.

I didn’t live with him, but I went to his house believing he’d be at work. I wanted to surprise him with a romantic dinner. Even when I heard the screams and moans of pleasure coming from his bedroom, I refused to believe what my ears told me. When I saw it, saw what was going on—him fucking some woman who looked like a prostitute—a part of me died, the part of me that loved and wanted love in my life.

It faded away as if it had never been there in the first place, and things were made worse by the fact that he never even came after me, never apologized, never came to me to see if I was okay. I wasn’t sure what hurt more, and that was why it took me so long to get over him. Sometimes I wondered if I was still at the point where I was hurting.

Somehow, someway, I found myself comparing other men to him. Luc was the first person I hadn’t done that with. The crazy thing was, it was crazy, me thinking of him in any other way besides being my partner, a work colleague—and yet I was.

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