Savage Little Games: A Dark Mafia, Enemies to Lovers Romance by Lane Hart

Author:Lane Hart [Hart, Lane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Editor's Choice Publishing
Published: 2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

27

Dante

“You’re late,” Vanessa says sweetly when I pull out my chair to join her and my three daughters already seated at the second-floor dinner table.

“Perhaps because I didn’t request a sit-down dinner tonight.”

“No, but we did,” she replies.

“We?”

“I made the salad,” Madison announces proudly, smiling and looking happier than she has in probably months.

“A monkey could literally make a salad,” Cass informs her sister with a roll of her eyes. “It’s just tearing up vegetables and throwing them all in a bowl.”

“I cut the vegetables into tiny pieces without chopping off my finger, fuck you very much,” Madison replies.

I look pointedly at Vanessa, whom I assume is the one who demanded dinner, and also somehow, talked my oldest into helping prepare the meal.

“Madison wanted to learn how to cook. We had to start somewhere,” she replies.

“I want to learn how to cook too,” Sophie chimes in.

“Fine. I don’t want to be the only one at the table who can’t chop shit up without cutting a finger off,” Cass says with a huff.

“It can’t hurt for them to learn a few tricks, right? In case the chef is sick, and they need to eat.”

I have no clue what she’s up to, but I don’t like it. Still, I keep my mouth shut for the rest of the meal, while Madison tells us all about her kitchen experience down in the casino.

Once we all adjourn from the dining table, I head for my office since I’m not ready for bed. I’m not ready for the torture of wanting Vanessa and being unable to have her either.

The woman doesn’t get the hint and follows me inside, shutting the door behind her.

“I have work to do,” I tell her.

“Dante, wait.” She grabs my elbow to stop me in front of my desk. “I’m not sure what I did to piss you off last night, but you’re not really angry about me showing Madison around the kitchen are you?”

“I don’t know why you bothered. She’ll always have staff to wait on her and cater to her every need.”

“Did you not see her face tonight? Being able to do things for herself makes her feel good, like she’s capable of anything she puts her mind to.”

She’s right. Madison did seem happier tonight. I’m just not sure if that’s a good thing or not.

“Don’t go putting ideas in their heads, making them think they would last a day on their own in the real world.”

“Why not?”

“Because I don’t ever want them to have to work twelve-hour shifts serving cocktails to assholes who slap their asses or getting beat for dating the wrong men.”

My beautiful butterfly scoffs indignantly at me, and I know I just fucked up.

“You think my life is one big failure, and that it somehow proves you’re better than me? Just because you have endless amounts of money, doesn’t mean shit, Dante! At least I’m free do to what I want, when I want, without worrying about who may have a target on my head.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.