Hyland's Property by Felicity Brandon

Author:Felicity Brandon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dark Romance, Mafia Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Organised Crime, Arranged Marriage
Publisher: Felicity Brandon
Published: 2021-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

MY MIND REELED AS HE unfastened the leather at my wrists. My initial instinct to reach out and slap the bastard who had put me through such a perturbing experience was overawed with the weight of the sensations, my emotions lurching from relief to satiation, back to rage at the treatment. The guy was talking about marriage, about making a lifelong commitment, when we’d only known each other five minutes, and in that time, he’d drugged, snatched, and done all this to me! It didn’t seem comprehensible, but then based on the things I knew about the Hyland’s, Sean seemed to fit the bill.

Yes, he was strikingly attractive, and something about his domineering character made me melt inside, but clearly, he was mentally unbalanced. You couldn’t just meet someone and capture them as your own—it wasn’t right—though even as the thoughts registered, something about the way Saul’s long-term friend, Connor Reilly, had met his girlfriend, Molly, rang a bell in my mind. I didn’t know the whole story, of course, seeing how I was only Saul’s assistant, and my relationship with Connor had been brief at best, but I’d heard the rumors and had a good idea the way Molly had come into his life had been anything but conventional. I also knew what Connor had been charged with when they’d arrested him and the long hours of counseling Molly had undergone. To the entire world, their attraction seemed like Stockholm syndrome. I scoffed at it on more than one occasion, yet now look at my predicament—I was the one kidnapped, stripped, and held under duress, and now, my captor was bandying the idea of matrimony around like a second date.

“Remember what I told you.” His voice was a low snarl. “Behave yourself, or I will make you regret it.”

Our gazes locked for a moment, his blue eyes cold as they glowered. Right on cue, I shivered, suddenly cold now the excitement of the last climax had withered.

“You really want to marry me, Sir?” I sounded monotonic as I asked, a part of my brain still unable to comprehend the conundrum as I glanced around the disgusting room that had become my cell.

Marriage, for God’s sake. I didn’t even know if I wanted those things with Saul, let alone a madman I’d literally stumbled into. The last thing I needed was to bind myself to the psychopath in any meaningful way. I needed to get away, back to Saul and The Syndicate, as soon as I could. I needed to—

“Yes.” The assuredness in his tone broke my train of thought, and I lifted my chin to meet his eyes again. “Yes, I do.”

“But why?” It was a good question. “You could have anyone you wanted, Sir. Why me?”

I hoped stroking his ego a little, I could win his favor, and based on the way his lips curled, my ploy seemed to be working.

“I didn’t know what I was missing until I found you.”

He winked like something out of one of those cheesy romantic movies, but even though my heart raced at the gesture, my head knew better.

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