Savage Princess: A Dark Mafia Romance (The Savage Trilogy Book 2) by M. James

Author:M. James [James, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PNK Publishing
Published: 2023-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Levin

A part of me wishes I’d never mentioned the idea to her.

I barely sleep that night. I sit in the chair opposite the beds, my gun balanced on my knee, waiting for something to happen. For Diego’s men to come again, for someone to have followed us from the bar, for Vasquez to have sent men to track us down instead of waiting for us to come to him. I watch Elena sleep, her still form under the blankets as she lies there on her side, her hair occasionally stirring with her breath as it falls over her cheek. I have a deep urge to walk over and brush it away from her face, and I force myself to stay where I am.

If I go over to her and touch her, I’m not sure I could keep myself from waking her up and taking it further. And more than ever, I need to be careful.

I’m inwardly cursing myself for letting the tentative idea of a plan that I’d had go further. I shouldn’t have shared it with her—I should have known she’d latch onto it, that she’d want to help. For someone so sheltered, she has an amazingly poor sense of self-preservation.

Or, as I often suspect, it might simply be that she hasn’t seen enough of the world to understand how very real the danger is.

The decision is made now, though, and I can’t go back on it. Now I have to keep her safe in an entirely new set of circumstances.

I can’t let what happened to Lidiya happen to Elena. I can’t be the reason that she ends up dead or worse, because I’ve pulled her into a world that she should never have been a part of. I can’t watch history repeat itself all over again.

At some point, I manage to doze off. I wake at the slightest noise, so I don’t get much in the way of real rest, but by the time Elena wakes, I’ve had at least a few hours of interrupted sleep. She sits up and rubs a hand across her face, and she looks like such a complicated mixture of sexy and adorable sitting there in an oversized t-shirt, her hair a mess around her face and the sheets pooled around her hips. It takes everything in me to stay where I am and not go to her.

I want her so badly it hurts, and not just physically. I’m starting to care for her, too, in ways that go beyond just the job I’ve been given. I know how dangerous that is.

“What’s the plan for today?” she asks, running one hand through her dark, tangled hair. “You said we have to get me better clothes.”

“Yeah.” I stand up, tucking my gun into my waistband as I glance over at her. “I’ll go grab our breakfast while you do what you need to—shower, dress, whatever. And then we’ll find somewhere to shop.”

“That sounds like a plan.” She slides out of bed, the shirt falling down around her thighs, and my chest tightens as I fight the urge to go to her.

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