The Broker: An Enemies-to-Lovers Mafia Romance by Tara Crescent

Author:Tara Crescent [Crescent, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

For a long time, she lies next to me, staring up at the ceiling, not saying anything. “Are you going to untie me?” I ask her finally.

“Oh, right.” She jumps up. “Sorry.”

“You okay?”

“Never better.” She sits up, her eyes resting on my straining cock. “Can I. . .”

“Yes.”

She laughs softly. “I didn’t finish asking the question.”

“Whatever you want to do, I’m okay with it.”

“And if I want to find out if the great and powerful Dante Colonna is ticklish. . .”

“Evil.” My lips twitch. “Just the soles of my feet. But that’s not exactly what I had in mind.” I stop talking as she unbuckles my belt and unzips my fly, lifting my hips so she can take off my pants. She tugs them down past my hips. . .

Then she goes still.

Shit. The tattoo.

“Dante,” she whispers, her voice strained. “There’s a tattoo of a sparrow on your hip.” Her finger traces the small line drawing.

This isn’t the conversation I wanted to have right now. Ah well. Too late for that. “Yes, I know.”

“It looks exactly like the tattoo I have on my hip.”

“Mmm.”

“When did you get it done?”

The day after I killed my brother. But that’s another conversation we don’t need right now. Not when I can still taste her on my lips.

I take a deep breath. “I was selfish and self-absorbed. I knew Roberto had a girlfriend. He would call to brag about you. The way he talked about you. . . it should have set off alarm bells, but I wasn’t paying attention. Then he put you in the hospital. You paid the price for my carelessness. The tattoo acts as a reminder of what my priorities should be.”

“When did you get it done, Dante?”

“Ten years ago.”

She sucks in a breath. “Dante, I can’t. . . First you tell me you aren’t going to see Lara again because she’s not me.” She keeps her face averted as she undoes my bonds. “And now this?”

I make a desperate attempt to lighten the tension. “For what it’s worth, after the Viagra delivery, I’m pretty sure Lara doesn’t want to see me again, either.”

“This is too much,” she continues as if I haven’t spoken. “I don’t know what I was thinking.” She undoes my bonds, then grabs her panties and pulls them on with shaking fingers. “This was a mistake. You’re Angelica’s uncle. We don’t even like each other. When this ends in disaster—and it will end in disaster—we’ll still be bound together by her.” She pulls the dress over her shoulders, not bothering to zip up the back. “We shouldn’t have done this.” She finally looks at me. “If Neil asks me out again, I’m going to say yes.”

I watch her get dressed, my heart sinking. She’s wrong about me not liking her. My problem isn’t that I don’t like her. It’s that I like her too much.

But her last words hit a nerve.

“No,” I snap. “We’re not going to do this, you and me. For a change, we’re going to stop pretending.

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