Unforgiving Queen: A Dark Mafia Romance (Stolen Empire Trilogy Book 2) by Eva Winners

Author:Eva Winners [Winners, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Winners Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

The phone buzzed again and another message came in.

Strong people break too. Stop trying to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders.

And then my heart broke for an entirely different reason.

I made my way out of the venue, my eyes still burning with unshed tears. For Phoenix. For this fucked-up life. For Papà. Every goddamned thing that I couldn’t fix.

Outside, the cool October air soothed my heated skin. The sounds of the city were strangely calming as I made my way to the club where the girls waited for me. Turning a corner at the end of the street, I collided with something solid and warm.

A breath whooshed out of me and I stumbled back a step.

Green apples and citrus. I didn’t even have to look up to know who stood before me, but when I did, the bustling Paris street melted away.

We stared at each other as a thick, almost suffocating tension surrounded us.

“Lost, Amon?”

His lips curved up slightly before they flattened into a stern line. I didn’t like the way it set the butterflies fluttering in my stomach free.

“On your way to celebrate?” he countered, glancing at my thigh-high pink boots and pink fitted long-sleeved minidress. It was a perk of hosting fashion shows; there were plenty of clothes at my disposal.

I looked up to see his gaze trail from my heels to the sliver of exposed skin at my thigh. When it finally met mine, darkness sparkled in his eyes.

I let out a sharp, angry huff. “On my way to get as far from you and your brother as possible.”

Taking another step away from him, I went to leave when he grabbed my wrist. “Reina—”

My heart twisted in my chest, stealing my breath. I hated the effect he had on me, the way it felt like I’d been punched in the stomach, but most of all, I hated this longing. I was still attracted to him, despite the shit he’d done. Despite the answers I didn’t have.

Why? What happened to make him change his mind about us?

I wanted to ask him about that summer. But how could I bring it up without looking like some pathetic woman who couldn’t move on?

So I stared at him, waiting for him to say something, while he looked at the car beside us like it was the most interesting hunk of metal in the world.

“Will you at least look at me?”

Slipping his hands in his pockets, his gaze found mine. Heavy. Dark. Bottomless. But deep in those dark depths, there was a fire that burned. I could almost feel the heat of it licking my skin. Or maybe it was just my mind playing tricks on me, remembering his touch.

I could hardly breathe around the memories swarming me.

His grip tightened around my wrist. “You look beautiful. So fucking beautiful that it hurts to look at you.”

I blinked, surprise washing over me. I couldn’t do this again. Wouldn’t do this again. He’d stepped on my heart, smashed it to pieces.

A bitter laugh tore from my throat.

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