The Devil I Desire (The Devil's Knights Book 4) by Jillian Quinn & Jillian Frost

Author:Jillian Quinn & Jillian Frost [Quinn, Jillian & Frost, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penn Publishing
Published: 2021-07-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Marcello

Days after seeing Rhi again, I still couldn’t get her out of my head. Not even with Alex splayed on her bed, a charcoal pencil in hand as she sketched another idea for the Many Faces of the Devil series my brother had inspired. For a while, Alex was the only woman in my life. Rhi was in Europe, and Carl Wellington had given Alex a choice between Luca and me.

But I knew Alex would never choose me, not when she was in love with my brother. Even when Luca was cruel and hateful, she still loved the bastard. I think because he was so broken, she loved him more. She wanted to fix him.

Rhi never tried to fix me. And I like that about her. Too bad my dad would never allow his son to be with the daughter of an Irish gangster. In his eyes, Salvatores were Founders and Knights, too good for commoners. He would find me a wife, eventually, and I was sure she would be beautiful and compliant. None of that appealed to me. Because I would always want what I couldn’t have. It had been that way since I was a child.

I wanted my father’s love and never got it.

I wanted to be an artist and got punished.

I wanted Alex, but she chose my brother.

I wanted Rhi, but she was never mine to keep.

Sitting in the armchair by the window, I tipped the glass of scotch to my lips. Alex glanced over at me as if she were studying my features. She’d drawn me a few times, but I didn’t want to be the subject of another one of her paintings.

I rested the glass on my knee, eyes on the gorgeous blonde staring at me with fascination. “Why are you giving me that look?”

Alex smiled. “I could use a drink.”

I set the highball glass on the table beside me. “What do you want?”

She beamed with delight. “Sweet tea.”

I could tell she had something up her sleeve. Alex could give me all the innocent looks in the world, but she had a little devil hidden beneath her perfect exterior.

I pointed my finger at the bed and warned, “Don’t move.”

Alex had a habit of defying my orders.

She raised her hands in surrender. “Wouldn’t dream of it, boss man.”

I left her bedroom, taking the back stairwell to the Butler’s kitchen, and poured a glass of sweet tea. With the Albanians looking for Alex, and a bounty on her head, we couldn’t afford to leave her unattended. Even the two minutes it took me to return to her room were two too many. I had been tracking our enemies’ movements, waiting for them to pop up on my radar again.

It was only a matter of time.

They’d tried kidnapping Alex, and I got shot defending her. My life had hung in the balance, and even after the surgery, I wasn’t sure I would come out from that experience alive. But I was here, doing my best to guard Alex because Luca was busy running Salvatore Global.

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