Valachi: A Dark Mafia Romance (Cosa Nostra Heirs Book 5) by Atlas Rose & Raven Scott

Author:Atlas Rose & Raven Scott [Rose, Atlas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

5

Evan

He was really taking me. I glanced across the car to find his scowl deepening. Bright lights from oncoming cars blinded me as we headed for the city. Bruno hadn’t spoken a word since climbing into the car, just stared straight ahead. His jaw clenched, hands fisting the wheel. I glanced over my shoulder to my overnight bag I’d thrown in the backseat, along with my coat.

He thought I wasn’t serious. Then he found out just how serious I was.

Fear trembled through me. I wasn’t going to stay if there were secrets. I’ve seen enough of the way my father treated my mother to know what was in store if I let this continue.

I wasn’t my mother.

I wouldn’t take the lying and the cheating.

I wouldn’t take the secrets and the rage.

I wouldn’t take anything less than pure, brutal honesty.

The drive back into the city was awful and quiet. I sat there, trying to keep hold of the rage I felt inside. But I just felt scared, I just felt anxious…and the darker Bruno became, the more afraid I became as well.

We pulled into the warehouse, waiting for the gate to roll open. We had three men working in the yard, under the guise of labor. But there was no mistaking the bulge under their jackets and the way their focus drifted along the street, watching the cars that passed behind us. We were under lockdown. There was no mistaking that. We drove in and parked around the rear. There were five more men who stood in the open; they carried guns as they watched the rear of the warehouse.

I glanced toward the bunker we had at the back of the warehouse. The one locked and secured and was off-limits to anyone who wasn’t cleared by the Bernardis’ or the Valachis’.

And in this case, those people were few.

Bruno pulled the Explorer into the garage and killed the engine. But he didn’t climb out, just turned to me with fear in his eyes. “I really wish you wouldn’t do this.”

“Because you don’t want me to find out the truth?”

Sadness cut across his face. He scowled deeper. “No. Because I don’t want you to see what I really am.”

It took all of my strength not to touch his cheek. “Bruno, I’ve always known who you really were. Why do you think I married you?” My voice was soft and somber. The truth was always much crueller than a lie.

He gave a nod, then climbed out of the car. I followed and, after I left my bag and coat in the back, we headed toward the bunker. His fingers moved across the keypad, punching in the numbers as he lifted his gaze to the camera poised above the door. I didn’t need an explanation to know who was inside. Deviouz would be watching, maybe even Jannik, too.

The thought of seeing him again after all these months made me feel panicked. He was just as much in entwined with my nightmares as the bitch who stabbed me.

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