Thorns of Silence: A Dark Mafia Romance by Eva Winners

Author:Eva Winners [Winners, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Winners Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-10-18T21:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-ONE

DANTE

The dream always started the same.

I walked across the dark parking lot with my phone in my hand, smiling and happier than I’d ever been. My girl and I… we’d be driving into the sunset before long.

Except, I could never remember the girl.

Lost in thought, I hadn’t noticed I was being tailed. Suddenly, an arm came around my neck and I dropped my phone.

“Leone owes us a debt,” a voice whispered before pain hit my side, right underneath my ribs. A blade pierced my skin, I realized. “You’ll do.”

I grunted, feeling the warm liquid trickle down my torso. I thrashed, growling against the grip as the pain seared my skin.

“You’re going to be fun to mess with,” another voice said.

I seethed, fighting tooth and nail when two of the men in masks came around me. One drove his knee into my stomach, sending me doubling over and coughing. He stuffed something into my mouth. The sound of tires screeching reached my ears and I shot my gaze over my shoulder, meeting a set of dark eyes.

Everything turned black behind my eyelids as I sank quickly into unconsciousness.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

I woke up in a dark space, the sound of water dripping in the distance. I had no idea how long I’d been in this state.

The ache in my body reminded me of the days when Amon and I were young and Father wanted to make us tough. He called it training; we knew it as torture. He’d beat us or pair us with one of his guards, knowing a twelve-year-old had no chance against a thirty-year-old man with combat experience.

Fuck, if this was one of Father’s ideas of teaching me a lesson, I would slice his throat ear to ear. Fuck the Omertà.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

My eyelids opened and I had to blink several times to adjust to the darkness. I went to shift but my arms and legs rattled the chains. It was only then that the cold metal against my wrists and ankles registered.

“What the fuck,” I muttered as the bed springs protested beneath me.

A key turned in the metal lock, the sound piercing my skull. Silence followed, but it was soon broken by the sound of footsteps. I moved my eyes to the left, narrowly making out the outline of a dark shadow.

“Welcome to my empire, Mr. Leone.” I detected an accent. Spanish?

“Who the fuck are you?”

That had him cackling like I’d just uttered the joke of the century. He laughed and laughed, then abruptly stopped. None of this felt funny.

He reached into his pocket. “If you pull out your dick, we’re going to have a serious problem,” I spat, jerking against the chains even though I knew it was fruitless.

Thankfully, it was a cigar. He casually lit it, his eyes roaming over my shackled form. Then before I took my next breath, I felt the tip of it against my ribs.

My heart raced. My breath wheezed.

It wasn’t the end. It was only the beginning.

I bolted up in my bed, my entire body screaming in pain and drenched in sweat.

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