Lovely Beast: A Dark Mafia Enemies to Loves Romance by B. B. Hamel

Author:B. B. Hamel [Hamel, B. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Sara

Angelo sits in bed looking like he got hit by a bus.

Which isn’t too far from the truth.

His eyes are both bruised and black. The cut above his eye isn’t terrible, but it takes a while to stop bleeding. He’s hunched over and cradling his side, and I’m pretty sure he needs to see a freaking doctor to make sure there’s nothing ruined internally. I fret over him, cleaning the little cuts and scrapes, desperate to do something to help.

But I’m powerless. I’ve always been powerless in all this, and seeing him in pain and angry and exhausted sends a jolt of anger and fear deep through my core.

“Just let me sit here for a while,” Angelo says and each breath is labored. “I’ll call Carmine. He’ll send someone. But not yet.”

“What are you waiting for?” I dab at his face gently, cleaning the blood away. His shirt’s ruined, his trousers are drenched in filth and gravel. He looks at me with hard eyes and touches my face. “Angelo. Don’t.”

“What did your parents say to you?”

“Seriously? You almost got killed tonight, and you’re asking about my parents?”

“When they left, you looked at me like I was a monster. Like I crawled out from under your fucking bed and tried to eat your soul.”

“It’s not like that.” I glance down at my hands, unable to meet his gaze, because I know he’s right. It’s always been that way: Mom and Dad have that effect on me. Whatever they say, I want to believe they’re right even when I know they’re wrong. “Things are just complicated, okay?”

“I’m not sure they are.”

“My dad warned me away from this case. He heard bad things about it at the Oak Club and—he told me to drop it and walk away.” My words hang in the air between us. Angelo leans his head back against the bed and lets out a soft groan and a curse. “I know, I should’ve told you sooner. I’m sorry.”

“Yeah, you should’ve told me, but it wouldn’t have made a difference. I shouldn’t have gone to that fucking bar alone. They wouldn’t have dragged me out to those fields if you were around.”

“You sure about that?”

He shrugs. “Pretty sure. I’m willing to bet your apartment was our first warning. Now my broken rib is our second. Think we’ll get a third?”

“Dad told me this is really bad news. He said I needed to drop it, stop dealing with Carmine, stop working with you.”

“He’s probably right. Look at me right now. You really want to be involved with this?”

“Stop it, Angelo. I don’t need to hear it from you.”

“Then what are you gonna do about it, huh?”

I pull back from him, anger sparking. I pace across the room and feel like my head’s spinning as his eyes track me. He looks like a glorious boxer, sitting there bloodied and battered, shirtless in only his ripped jeans, a wreck of a human and still beautiful. A monster, a beast, a killer, and still lovely beyond words.

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