Possessive Stepbrother by MINK

Author:MINK [MINK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MINK
Published: 2021-07-08T18:30:00+00:00

13

Torino

She’s disappeared. I pull at the neck of my dress shirt.

“Calm, son.” Dad hands me a champagne flute. “We’re swimming with the sharks, in their grubby little sea for the moment.”

I take the champagne and down it, but I don’t stop scanning the room for a glimpse of Alessa. She shouldn’t be here. Not at this overdone shithole. Not when there are predators and fake smiles all around us.

“So good to have you here.” Elaine Perth smiles, her too-white teeth gleaming. “I hope you enjoy yourselves at our little impromptu engagement party.”

“Thank you for throwing this.” My father gives her a nod. Despite his cool demeanor, he’s on edge. Enemy territory is never a good place to be, even if we’re supposed to be forming an alliance with this family. They aren’t blood, and the wedding hasn’t happened. It will never happen.

Elaine leans closer, so close I can smell the hard booze on her breath and see the little dab of white powder inside her nostril. “I think the love birds have flown the coop together. Perhaps getting a head start on a little Perth heir.”

Without a word, I turn on my heel and push through the crowd. I can hear my father making apologies for me to Elaine. Like I give a shit. If her dickhead of a son has touched my Alessa, there will be consequences. Ones that will make a little rudeness from me seem like a sweet dream.

I push out into the hallway, then hurry down the corridor, passing Perth soldiers who stare but don’t make a move. They know my reputation, and I’m certain they’ve been told that this party is supposed to be violence-free. What they don’t know is if one of them tries to stop me right now, I’d drop him with a bullet between the eyes without thinking twice.

Taking the stairs two at a time, I hurry to the residence part of the home. A guard stands waiting just in front of a long hallway.

He steps in front of me and crosses his arms. “Party’s downstairs.”

I reach for my gun. That’s when I hear her cry. Alessa.

The guard turns his head toward the sound. I take the opening and clock him with a vicious right. He falls hard, lights out.

Running down the hall, I stop when I hear her again, then aim a kick at the door where the sound is coming from.

“—off me!” She’s fighting Finnegan, who’s wrestled her onto the bed.

“Get off her!” I roar and lunge for him, yanking him up by his jacket. I wrap my forearm around his throat and squeeze as he struggles and slams me back against the wall, shaking some art onto the ground. Glass shatters, and all I can see is the fear in Alessa’s eyes, the way her hands shake as she sits up.

“Don’t you ever. Fucking. Touch. Her.” I punctuate each word with an even harder squeeze on his throat.

“Torino.” She wipes away a tear and stands.

His struggling lessens, and I walk him forward, keeping my arm barred at his throat.

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