Echo by Sybil Bartel
Author:Sybil Bartel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Alpha Elite Series
Publisher: Sybil Bartel
Published: 2023-03-20T00:00:00+00:00
Echo
She was fucking lying.
âBullshit.â I saw it in her eyes. I heard it in the space between her words, that fucking silence before she spoke. She still broadcasted her thoughts.
I also tasted her fear.
Iâd killed too much not to know the stench of it, but more than that, I knew her. The innocent eighteen-year-old Iâd walked away from, the beautiful woman sheâd become, it didnât fucking matter, she was the same.
She couldnât lie.
I also saw the shift thatâd just happened. Hell, I felt it. My hand on her throat, the change in her pulse, her breathing accelerating, her body tensing up instead of leaning into meâshe was pissed as hell.
Good.
I wanted her angry. I wanted her as fucking pissed off as I was.
Her voice pitched lower, and the Principessa came out. But this was a new version. This was a Principessa whoâd spent nine goddamn years with my brother doing who the fuck knew what. âDo not curse at me,â she demanded.
âDonât fucking lie to me.â
âAnd you will what? Speak without swearing? Question me without insults?â
Wearing her emotions like she wore her coatâwrapped tight and exposed for everyone to seeâshe wasnât fooling anyone. Despite her lineage, despite whatever the hell Ademaro had done to her, with her, the brutality of the Cosa Nostra still wasnât showing on her. But the weight of it was. âCareful, Principessa, youâre slipping.â
âHow can I possibly slip when you are manhandling me?â
âManhandling.â Any other Sicilian woman, any other situation, I wouldâve fucking smirked. âBig word for someone who claims their English is shit.â But she was right, I did have a hold on her, and I wasnât letting go. Feeding myself a line about doing what I had to in order to get intel out of her, I was doing the exact same shit Iâd just accused her of.
Lying.
Despite what Iâd sworn to myself not five fucking minutes ago, history was repeating itself. The instant I touched her and sheâd leaned into my dominance, my resolve obliterated.
I wasnât sending her back to any goddamn place where our old lives could touch her.
Iâd kill every motherfucker in the Cosa Nostra if I had to.
Iâd take a bullet for her.
But there was one condition.
She had to fucking ask for my help.
After nine years of her fucking my brother, I wanted quid pro quo. I wanted the Principessa whoâd once begged me not to hang up on her. I wanted the woman whoâd needed me. Not the one whoâd spit in the face of my help.
âManhandling is not a big word,â she argued. âIt is an appropriate word in this instance, and unlike you, I do not employ such tactics.â
âYou got something to say, say it.â She couldâve stepped back or told me to fuck off. Demanded I let go of her. But she wasnât doing a damn thing except taking exactly what I was offeringâdominance.
âI already have.â
âYeah, and whatâs that?â I didnât give a damn that she was speaking. She wasnât actually saying shit, but her expression was.
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