Broken Parts (A Dark Romance) (Parts of Me Book 3) by J. A. Wynters

Author:J. A. Wynters [Wynters, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T06:00:00+00:00

When you plan a scorched earth strategy, there are two considerations: timing and the element of surprise.

In order to achieve those, I needed to be patient.

And so, I was.

A number of crucial things happened in that time and some others that are far less important, so I will only fill you in on the essentials.

The first, and perhaps most important, was that I became known. Word travelled fast of my new acquisitions.

Not just Hill Street and the garage, but Tony’s rumoured tapes were suddenly a very real reality, and suddenly I was on everyone’s radar. See, Tony led by fear but that was never my intention. I didn’t want to break the dogs—well not yet—I wanted to become their friend, gain their trust, and then destroy them.

Construction began on Hill Street a week after my acquiring the garage. Simultaneously, I began to tear down Tony’s throne and accidentally built myself an empire. I’m not talking about a castle or a fort which, in many ways, Hill Street became—a fortified palace where I would always be safe, a master of the keep hiding in the highest room in the tallest tower.

I had amassed an accidental and extremely loyal army, and all it took was telling them they owed me nothing and loyalty wasn’t something I wanted to buy. It was a lie of course. I needed them to worship me, to be prepared to die for me, and they were because I set them free and told them there were no strings attached. Thing was, they were too busy looking for strings when they should have been looking for a noose.

It started as a trickle. Men would visit me at the office, making casual conversation, probing as to my plans. Really what they wanted to know were my plans for them. I told them about Hill Street and the grand ideas I had, and they all offered to help. Of course they did—keep your enemies closer and what not. I was their enemy, one with a weapon so dangerous I could destroy them all.

I gained their trust by hiring their companies. I allowed Hill Street to be built on their greed and corruption while I laundered Tony’s money and shook their hands; while I got invited to their homes and sat at the dinner table with their now grown kids—with their hollow eyes and empty expressions. I spent months feeling sick to my stomach while I smiled in their faces, cultivating a relationship, building trust, baiting them like the feral dogs they were—a bowl of milk closer each day until they finally stepped inside.

The launch of Hill street was one of the largest events the city has seen in years. It was lavish, over the top, and exuberant in every way. Celebrities I didn’t recognize shook my hand and smiled as if they mattered. Any and all my new friends arrived with their wives pumped full of plastic and chemicals so they can look prettier and perkier. If you ask me, it was a freak show, a parade of ugliness that came from needles and doctor offices.

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