Ravage (Severinov Bratva Book 4) by Kristen Luciani

Author:Kristen Luciani [Luciani, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Alek

I don’t know what the hell I was thinking by taking her from Tali’s hotel. It’s not my problem that she doesn’t feel like she has a life or a purpose.

It’s not my responsibility to help her find either.

Yet, here we are, sitting in my car.

And I’ve already let her in too far.

I’m still a little shocked. I’m not a sharing kind of guy.

I don’t go for all of the warm and fuzzy shit.

I do what I need to take care of my business, my family, and my life.

There’s no room for anything else.

Not that I’ve ever tried to make the room.

Never found anyone particularly worthy.

But when I saw her attack that motherfucker and imagined what the hell he’d done to endure her wrath…

I saw red.

I wanted to take her to Cristian, to get her out of harm’s way.

And to keep her away from anyone else who might have an agenda.

Or a fucking vendetta against her family or me.

I buried my feelings for her a long time ago, but every time I’m around her, they keep bubbling to the surface.

Screwing with my head.

Both heads…

So tonight when she broke down, I couldn’t just walk away like I’ve been doing for so long.

I didn’t want to walk away.

And that scares the hell out of me more than anything else.

I’m the guy who runs the show. I handle the problems and eliminate threats.

I don’t put things in jeopardy.

But right now, as I sit next to Gianna, I am opening myself up to a whole slew of things that I wasn’t prepared for.

Because I don’t do the romance thing.

I’m not anyone’s knight in shining armor.

I’m the devil.

There’s so much darkness inside of me, and she is as bright as the sun. What the hell could I possibly offer her, other than protection?

Deep down, she must know that I have nothing to give. She has to. I’ve made it clear, over and over again.

Yet, she wants to be with me tonight.

Me, the self-absorbed prick she even said she hates.

Less now, but still.

She didn’t want to be with her family, the people who love her.

She wants me to give her what she’s been missing.

Me.

And I’m the one who wants to run away now because I can’t.

“I just want to know what it’s like to feel normal.” She smiles at me. “I’ve never done much on my own before. Never really dated much. Never got to do the ‘normal’ things teenagers do.”

Never dated.

Really?

Does that mean—?

Fuck. It probably does.

My cock twitches.

Sick, sick, sick!

No wonder why Cristian felt the need to remind me, yet again, that I’m no good for his sister.

Well, that and the fact that he now knows we’ve got targets on our back courtesy of Sofia Rojas.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

And Sofia…she’s beyond fucking scorned.

“So, no,” Gianna continues. “I’m not running back. I’m running away. Just for a little while. And because you offered.”

“I did,” I say, berating myself for getting caught into that damn trap.

It’s just easier not to feel.

Even now, there are too many thoughts racing through my mind.

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