Ruthless Vows: A Dark Mafia Standalone Romance by M. James

Author:M. James [James, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PNK Publishing
Published: 2023-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Asha

I manage to keep the tears in until the Uber drops me off. I think, for a split second as I get out of the car, that I hear a motorcycle’s engine—I spin around, looking down the dark street for any sign of a bike following me, but there’s nothing there that I can see. Just the lights of traffic from the main road, and then the low darkness of mine.

I grip my keys in my fingers as I walk to my building, inwardly cursing Finn for making me worry at all. I know his heart was in a good place—he’s asked me to do this job, and his job is security for the Kings. It makes sense that he’d be worried about making sure I got home safe, wanting to follow me, to ensure that nothing happened. If I’d let him, he’d probably have followed me all the way up to my apartment. And then—

My eyes flutter closed for just a moment as I put in the code to open the outside door, slipping into the pine-scented lobby of my apartment building and heading for the stairs. I don’t want to be touched after that session with Matvei—but somehow, the idea of it being Finn touching me feels differently. It wouldn’t even have to be sexual. I feel, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that if I asked him to lay in bed with me and hold me while I fell asleep, he’d do it, even if it meant him spending the whole night wanting me while nothing happened.

It’s the kind of thing that could make me fall in love with him, I think as I step into my apartment and triple-lock the door behind me, tossing my keys onto the counter and contemplating a drink. But all I really want is a shower and to go to bed—before I can even make my way to the bathroom, I feel the tears start to well up.

I close my eyes tightly, trying to hold them back, wrapping my arms around myself as if I can physically push the emotion deeper and lock it away, but of course, I can’t. It wells up, everything I’d forced myself not to feel while I did what Matvei wanted from me tonight, and I sink my teeth into my lower lip, groping for the edge of the counter to hold onto as I start to cry.

It was almost too much. He’d been as pleased as a cat that caught a songbird that he’d gotten another night with me despite Nikolai’s refusal to let him back into the club. It confirmed that Finn was onto something with his plan—Matvei would likely drop some useful information before too long simply because he won’t be able to keep himself from bragging to me. He’s an arrogant, reckless, spiteful man, and my skin crawled every time he touched me.

He could see that Finn didn’t like me being there, too—and he’d exploited it. He hadn’t suspected that Finn was

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