Velvet Deception: A Dark Mafia Christmas Romance by Leona White

Author:Leona White [White, Leona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

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DIEGO

Iwoke up in the morning with Sofia curled up next to me. Her soft, naked body lay pressed against me, every decadent inch of her smooth skin so warm and inviting that I struggled to get up.

But I did. I couldn’t let her worry about getting up early to deal with that mess out there.

Now that we’d crossed the line to intimacy, mutually caving to our desire we couldn’t stop from developing further, I felt like I had a new outlook on life.

I kissed her brow then eased out of bed, standing in her room and stretching with a deep, contented sense of belonging. I still didn’t know who I was. I lacked a lot of information about who I was before, but I felt like I could change my perspective about that for the better.

If my past never returned, then I had plenty to live for and learn now. It felt like the biggest reset imaginable. Pressing redo and starting over. Instead of stressing about what I used to do and what I should return to, since it was out of my control to resume my former life, I had the freedom to start over now.

Sofia and Ramon were my new purpose. My job was to protect them. And my place was here, right in this home or wherever they would want to be.

It was fast. We’d fallen into bed after only a couple of weeks, and they weren’t ordinary days of getting to know each other. I was a blank man, a stranger to myself, but still, I was me inside. And I wasn’t grasping for something comfortable in this time of confusion. I wasn’t reaching for whatever was close and convenient for the lack of anything else to focus on.

I wanted Sofia.

I wanted her to see me as her man, her hero, her supporter.

And I could start my half of that arrangement by heading out to the living room and starting to clean up the mess from fighting those men yesterday.

For a couple of hours, I did just that. Sweeping and collecting debris. Sorting out what seemed salvageable and only slightly broken. Clearing out the grime and dirt that the commotion stirred up. I was fortunate and proud that I found not a speck of blood. I’d been thorough when I cleaned it yesterday, but as I realized how well I’d done, I hated the morbid questions that crept in.

Was I a crime scene cleaner?

She’d found me in that doctor coat.

Did I work in a morgue at the hospital?

Neither sounded right.

I sighed, standing and stretching my back after I finished. Making sure to be quiet so Sofia and Ramon could sleep in, I glanced at their closed doors and smiled. Not a peep. They were still out.

Even though the couch was back to right and the room was cleared up as much as it could be, it felt different in here. It wasn’t the same after all that happened. Also, the living room where I’d started my recovery seemed different since I’d slept in Sofia’s bed with her last night.

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