Lost Bastard by India Kells

Author:India Kells [Kells, India]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Where to go next was a decision Deva left to the men in the car. Hector was driving his ride, and Aleksei was sitting silently beside her in the back seat. She didn’t even look out the window, her eyes transfixed on the gun lying on her lap.

Would she have been able to kill him? To kill her father? Was it in her? That tainted part of her genetics that she had fought against convinced herself she had left behind, had controlled and wasn’t so far away anymore. Was it a lie? She was an MC princess, she had witnessed the ugly, the violent and the ruthless firsthand. Her body may not show the marks, but her soul did. It was deeply imprinted.

Closing her eyes, she breathed deeply and found that small string inside her, that barely lit path she had fought for a long time ago, one that built her up when she had lost Johnny. When the world she had known had been crumbling down. There, in a hidden corner of her mind, she had stored all the good, the soft and the vulnerable. Memories of her mother, of laughter and belly tickles. Endless hugs and the warmth of her brother when he was sitting close. And even in that memory, there were moments where she saw her father smiling, ruffling her corkscrew curls with a loving touch.

It was that part of her, devoid of darkness that helped her rebuild herself, re-center herself to finally find Deva. And it was that same girl, now a woman, who would find her way through all this mess of blood and ashes. The payment of her debt to Beatrice may destroy who she was once more, but she would survive and find the path back to where she wanted to be.

The seat shifted, and she knew Aleksei always had an eye on her, always wondering. The man was a mass of contradictions, and everything she didn’t want. In her new life, she had lovers, even men she considered boyfriends. They were nice, reliable, funny. Why couldn’t she grow a strong attachment to any of them?

Deva knew why, and it was because of her own darkness. These good, decent men, how could they understand her? It was impossible to change her past, to erase the links to the underworld completely. And that answered her question quite clearly. No white picket fences for her. Not in this lifetime as forever she would have a dark fog of danger swirling around her, tainting the people who would touch her. However, there was one thing she knew. She wouldn’t go back to her old life, even if her father stopped being a threat. Aleksei was Bratva, and his choice would never make him hers.

A large hand wrapped around one of hers, squeezing gently. The Russian was everything she had fought against, and yet, she squeezed his hand back. It was incomprehensible why she trusted him. He was a cage fighter, a mobster, dangerous, volatile... and dependable, reliable, caring, sexy.

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