Vicious Proposal: A Dark Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

Author:B. B. Hamel [Hamel, B. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Melanie

I don’t know what I was thinking.

I wasn’t. Not really. Anyone in their sane and rational mind would work very, very hard to keep an Oligarch out of their bedroom.

Instead, I invited the most dangerous one of all.

My body trembled as I led him through the house. It was quiet, and most of the staff was busy elsewhere. My mother was locked in her wing, doing whatever she did—probably drinking and brooding. My brother wouldn’t be around until tomorrow morning.

I was born in this cage. The beautiful views, the priceless art. None of it mattered. At some level, I always understood how privileged I was, that I could have anything I wanted—so long as it could be delivered. If it could come to us, and was properly vetted and searched, I could make it mine.

That lost its shine very quickly. I never cared about stuff. Clothes, toys, whatever. I had nobody to play with and nobody to dress for.

In a lot of ways, I envied the staff.

We treated them well—mostly. They made good money and had good benefits. They’d retire comfortably if they kept working for our family for their whole career. We asked for absolute secrecy and loyalty, but we rewarded them handsomely.

And they got to leave the premises. I watched them come and go as a little girl, making up stories about their lives. Some of them I’d corner and grill about what life was like, about their houses, their friends and family, about malls and stores and movie theaters and ice cream stores. I wanted to hear about it all because I was terrified I’d never experience anything.

There were other aspects of normal human life I didn’t know much about. Driving, doing laundry.

Kissing. Love. Sex.

I practiced on a few of the younger boys. There was one in particular, a kid named Jonah. He wasn’t handsome, and he wasn’t charming, but he was available. I cornered him one night after he was finished raking the leaves and kissed him in the equipment shed. He must’ve been nineteen, and I was sixteen, and in retrospect I never should’ve done it. He couldn’t have said no—not really, not when I was the daughter of his employers. Not when his father depended on my family for a living.

I was stupid back then. I kissed Jonah several more times, but didn’t take it further.

There were others. More boys that never mattered and couldn’t turn me away. I experimented with them, always afraid to go too far, always telling myself that they were using me the same way I was using them.

And maybe that was true. But I’d never forget Jonah, my first kiss at sixteen years old, and what he said afterward. Please don’t tell your parents.

I pushed open my bedroom door and stepped inside. Nervosa followed and quietly shut it behind him.

“This is nice,” he said, looking around.

I had a small suite toward the back of the second floor. My windows overlooked the wide expanse of grassland and the mountains beyond.

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