Heavy Crown: A Dark Mafia Romance (Brutal Birthright Book 6) by Sophie Lark

Author:Sophie Lark [Lark, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

14

Yelena

The mood in my father’s house is strange and tense.

Adrian will barely look at me, let alone speak to me.

Rodion seems to shadow me more closely than ever. He’s always lurking around when I leave my room to eat or swim in the pool. He watches me with those piggy little eyes, like he’s enraged that I’m about to slip away from him forever.

It doesn’t help that it’s sweltering hot, hot enough that the air conditioner can’t possibly cool all the space inside this house. I wake up sweating every night.

A few days before the wedding, I’m so hot in my room up on the top floor that I have to pull on a swimsuit and go downstairs to the pool.

I let myself out through the patio doors, careful not to make too much noise. If I wake my father, he’ll be furious.

I slip into the water, which barely feels cool compared to the muggy night air. Still, it’s better than my stifling room. I stroke back and forth across the pool, thinking about the apartment Seb and I will be moving into on Goose Island.

It’s a gorgeous industrial-style loft, with a view of the water on both sides. It has a professional-grade kitchen, which made Sebastian and me laugh, because neither one of us can cook for shit.

“We’ll learn together, I guess,” Seb said.

I can’t believe I’ll be living there in just a few more days. Him and me, all alone, without anybody looking over our shoulders.

Enzo Gallo already gave us our wedding gift: a brand-new grand piano, which is currently sitting in the living room of the loft. It’s bright and gleaming, and perfectly tuned. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

I don’t expect any gift from my father, and I don’t want one.

All I want is to be free of this place.

I roll over on my back and stroke across the pool, looking up at the sky. You can’t see too many stars here—the city lights drown them out. But I can still pick out Ursa Major and a faint glimmer down near the horizon that might be Venus.

Looking up at the stars fills me with happiness, remembering how Sebastian proposed to me. He made the proposal feel special and intentional, not at all like he was forced into it by my father.

I don’t understand how I got so lucky, meeting him.

I’ve never felt lucky in my life. Quite the opposite.

It’s unbelievable to me that something my father orchestrated with such ill intent could turn out in my favor.

Sebastian said I should apply for a music program after the wedding. I’m thinking of applying to the Bieber School of Music at Northwestern, or maybe DePaul.

Sebastian is going to keep helping run the Gallo empire. The truce between his family and mine is more of a formal cease-fire vs a collaborative partnership, but who knows—eventually Adrian will take over from my father. Maybe he and Seb will work together. Maybe my brother will get married, too. Maybe our kids will play together, and eventually run this city together .

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