His Mafia Sweetheart: MM Mafia Romance by Jude Steel

His Mafia Sweetheart: MM Mafia Romance by Jude Steel

Author:Jude Steel [Steel, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-04T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 6

NICO

The whiskey burns going down, a familiar fire that does nothing to thaw the ice in my veins. I welcomed the numbness, the bitter anesthetic of cheap booze and cheaper company. Anything to dull the ache in my chest, the gnawing hollow where my heart used to be.

It's been two weeks since I walked away from Eli, since I shattered both our hearts in the name of keeping him safe. Fourteen endless, grey days of throwing myself into the family business, of burying myself in blood and bullets and the cold comfort of power.

I tell myself it's better this way, that Eli's better off as far away from my world as possible. That the light in his eyes, the sweetness of his smile, would only be tarnished by the filth and violence that cling to me like a second skin.

But late at night, when the booze has worn off and the nameless bodies have gone, the truth whispers through the cracks in my walls. The truth that I'm a coward, a fool who threw away the best thing that ever happened to me out of fear and stubborn pride.

I can still feel the silk of Eli's skin beneath my fingers, taste the sunshine of his kiss on my tongue. Can still hear the way he gasped my name like a prayer, the broken sobs that shook his slender frame as I walked away and didn't look back.

Those memories are a special kind of torture, a penance I force myself to relive in vivid detail. Because I deserve the pain, the gnawing ache of regret. I deserve to suffer for breaking the heart of the only person who ever looked at me and saw something worth loving.

The sharp rap of knuckles against my office door jolts me out of my wallowing. I toss back the rest of my whiskey and scrub a hand over my face, straightening my tie with the other.

"Come in," I call, my voice raw and gravelly from disuse and too much alcohol.

The door swings open to reveal Tommy, his normally cocky grin nowhere to be found. There's a grim set to his jaw, a hard light in his eyes that I've rarely seen before.

"We need to talk," he says without preamble, shutting the door firmly behind him.

I raise a brow, feigning a nonchalance I don't feel. "Oh? Thought you were too busy chasing skirts and snorting coke to bother with the family business these days."

Tommy's mouth tightens, his gaze sharpening. "Cut the shit, Nico. You know damn well why I'm here."

I lean back in my chair, crossing my arms over my chest. "Enlighten me."

"Eli," Tommy says bluntly, and just the sound of his name is enough to make my heart clench painfully. "You need to pull your head out of your ass and fix this mess before it's too late."

I feel my expression shutter, a cold mask slamming down. "There's nothing to fix," I grit out through clenched teeth. "I did what I had to do to keep him safe.



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