Possessive Devil: A Dark Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

Author:B. B. Hamel [Hamel, B. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Grace

Meeting with Damon was the happiest I’ve been in months and the saddest I’ve been since Riley died.

Talking about her like that to Damon was cathartic—I wanted him to know about my cousin, the girl so full of life, so strong and clever and beautiful, the girl that was taken away too soon and torn from the world like a cleaver through raw meat. He didn’t make any promises about finding her killer, only that he’d ask around and see if any of the guys had heard of her or anyone that might’ve dated her, and that was enough for me.

It was hard, but it was good.

And it only makes my internal dilemma that much worse.

But I still don’t understand why Calvino did it.

“You got something on your mind?” Kia leans against the bar and smiles at me, her bright white teeth shining in the black lights. I wish they’d turn those off sometimes. “You seem distracted tonight.”

“Sorry, nothing important, just thinking.” I smile back at her, relieved that she’s even talking to me. Calvino’s not in this evening which is probably why she’s not going to great lengths to pretend like I don’t exist.

“You seem good, you know,” Kia says out of nowhere as Dustin returns with a few drinks for her customers. “Like ever since you got together with Calvino, you’ve got a glow about you.”

I laugh awkwardly and shake my head. “I doubt that.”

“Come on, girl. Tell the truth. You two are serious, right?”

“Not even a little bit.”

“That’s bullshit. I see the way he looks at you.”

“Yeah? How’s that?”

“Like you’re the only girl in this place. Even when there’s a pair of perfect boobs up on the stage, he’s still watching you no matter what. It’s almost kind of creepy if it weren’t so sweet. You’ve got that man wrapped around your finger.”

I shake my head again as she winks at me and walks off, strutting her hips toward her table, and I feel a little spike in my stomach. If only she knew.

I definitely don’t have him wrapped around my finger—but he did take me to Damon’s and started the process of finding Riley’s killer when he didn’t have to. Our deal was I get his information first then he helps me with my problem, so I didn’t expect him to start in on the hunt until things were totally finished and out in the open.

And yet he did it anyway.

I have to wonder why a guy like Calvino would give a damn about a girl like me, but maybe there’s some truth to what Kia said—maybe Calvino cares more than he says he does.

I’m smiling and my stomach’s doing flips, and I don’t know why the hell I feel like this. It only makes keeping my conversation with Vince from him that much worse—but Vince’s threat against the girls here keeps reverberating through my head.

Calvino is a bastard and a mafia monster, even if it’s not technically in the mafia, and his whole family

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