King of Vegas: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sienne Vega

Author:Sienne Vega [Vega, Sienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

17

Falynn

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The door slams shut behind us. One glance at Gio, and I know I’m in deep. I’m in huge trouble.

He knows I was lying. Yet, as I kick off my stilettos and turn to face him, I can’t bring myself to tell the truth. After everything that’s happened tonight, my brain is a foggy mess. I’m still processing seeing Enzo let alone making sense of how and why. Let alone figuring out how tonight affects me and Gio.

He stalks toward me, eyes menacing and dark. “Falynn, I’m going to ask you one more time. One more chance to come clean.”

I back away, bumping into the side of the sofa. “Come clean? About what?”

My voice is unlike my own. It’s fraught with a shaky nervousness. I’ve never seen Gio this serious; even the night I stumbled upon him and his men disposing of Jerry’s body. I had been on the brink of peeing myself, I’d been so scared, but tonight doesn’t hold a candle. There’s a predatory quality in how he moves, closing in on me. A frightening coldness on his handsome face, his bearded jaw set hard. He’s the most intimidating man I’ve ever seen.

In this moment, he’s every bit the dangerous, bloodthirsty Mafia king he was born to be.

The devil incarnate. Right in front of me in the flesh.

“You know what,” he says. He reaches out, and I flinch. His hand curves along my cheek, a light brush as if I’m delicate porcelain. “What’s the matter? You’re keeping secrets from me?”

“Gio…” I make a gasping sound like I’m insulted, but I’m still struggling with words.

“You weren’t in on what happened tonight, were you?” he asks.

“Gio—”

“’Cause loyalty is a way of life in the family.” He drops his hand from my cheek and moves toward the massive window overlooking the Strip. “When someone is trusted, and that trust is broken, there’s consequences.”

What consequences? What broken trust? Does he think I’m conspiring with Lovato? With law enforcement? None of it makes any sense.

I wrap my arms around myself. There’s a sudden draft in the room and goosebumps spread over my golden-brown skin. “I’d never betray you. You know that. I’m not hiding anything.”

“On your life?”

“Huh?”

“On your life, you’d never betray me?” He’s staring out the window, his back to me.

But his reflection is in the glass. His face is stony and emotionless, like he’s possessed by an unfathomable darkness.

I shudder and tighten my arms around myself. “Yes. I swear.”

“Wrong answer.”

He abandons the window. He crosses the space between us in a single stride. Before I can react, his nails are digging into the flesh of my upper arm. He’s dragging me into the bedroom.

“You’re lying to me, Falynn. For that I’ve gotta punish you.”

My eyes widen. “Punish me…lying…Gio…but…”

He throws me onto the bed with no effort, then pounces like a beast. I try to push myself up, but he flips me onto my stomach. The Valentino dress I was so worried about ruining earlier is torn off my body.

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