Forbidden Obsession: A Taboo Dark Mafia Romance by M. James

Author:M. James [James, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

12

SASHA

I hear the footsteps coming towards me as I’m dragged to the back of the alley. All I can smell is garbage, dirty water, and piss, and I close my eyes in a desperate prayer as my kidnapper tries to get me away before Max can catch up to us.

This is not where I want to die—

“Get your filthy fucking hands off of her!” Max’s voice is very close, and my heart stutters in my chest at the sound of the rough fury in it, something I’ve never heard from him before. “Don’t fucking touch her—”

I feel myself slung sideways as something grabs my attacker—Max, probably, but I don’t get a good look at first as I stumble into the alley wall, foot slipping on wet garbage and nearly taking me down. I grab onto the wall, stomach roiling at the damp feel of it, but as I look up and try to breathe past my racing heart, I see something I’ve never seen before.

Max—in a fight.

He looks vicious in a way I’ve never seen, his jaw clenched, and his lip curled as he swings at the man who grabbed me. The other man ducks, landing a punch to Max’s gut, but Max surges forward, grabbing the other man in a headlock as he violently grapples with him. I stare at the two fighting men, unable to fully reconcile what I’m seeing for a moment.

This is a side to Max that I’ve never seen before. I wasn’t there when he helped Viktor and the others take down Alexei, but I’d heard that he was, that he took part in the violence too, before he’d come up to get me and the girls from the bedroom where we’d been hiding. That it had been Alexei’s blood on his hands. I hadn’t been sure I could believe it—that the gentle, kind former priest that I knew was capable of such violence.

But I see it now. There’s a viciousness in his face, a rage in his eyes as he throws the other man into the wall opposite me, taking the blows the other man deals out and flinging them right back; that should terrify me. It’s proof I’ve never seen so clearly before that Max is capable of the same bloody things that Viktor and the other men in his world are—but it doesn’t frighten me. If anything, it makes me want him more than ever.

He’s protecting me. Defending me. Seeing the feral rage on his face at the thought of anyone laying a hand on me in violence rouses something in me, a primal need to reward that loyalty, to turn the adrenaline rushing through us both into something else.

I want Max. I’ve never known it more clearly than at this moment. And there’s no one else who could ever measure up to him.

The man gets in another blow to Max’s jaw, but Max grabs him by the shirt, flinging him into the wall so hard that the man’s head bounces off of it.

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