Maid for the Hitman: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2021-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Ryland

I move my finger around the glass of whisky, and I think about what it’d be like to grab the glass and smash it against Vito’s head.

Violent instincts pulse in me, primal and dangerous, every part of me alight with the need to fight or fuck.

It’s a dangerous cocktail, meeting the woman of my dreams and then having to talk to these mobbed-up lowlifes.

Just a couple of days ago my biggest concern was feeding big old Chopper.

“Well?” Vito says.

He asked why I packed a bag and drove them away from the apartment building before I took them out. It’s a stupid question, but his eyes are hazy with cocaine, his movements are twitchy. The goons at the rear of the bar are the same as if they’re all amped-up on the same stimulants.

Cocaine makes men think they’re tough.

It makes them forget respect.

“It’s not your place to question how I do things, Vito.”

His men stir at the back. Vito flinches, leaning back as if he’s just realized how close he’s sitting to me.

He knows I could dart my hand up quicker than a whip and latch onto his neck. He knows I could squeeze and crush his tendons and his bones and his life out of him.

He knows I’m Ryland fucking Radley, and my old man was Bucky Radley.

“I…” He clears his throat. “I think I have a right to ask.”

He’s whining because he knows the steroid sacs he calls muscles won’t stand up to one of my fingers. He knows I could dismantle him, grab my gun, and drop these men like we’re in a goddamned Western.

If you touch her, I roar at him silently. I am going to fucking end you. She is mine.

“That’s my business. Is there anything else, Vito?”

“Wait a sec,” he snaps. “We ain’t done here.”

I stare at him silently.

He stares back at me, but he sees certainty and I see fear.

His eyes widen and it’s like he’s crying at me to stop doing this, stop challenging him.

There’s nothing more dangerous than a sensitive mob guy.

Except maybe an angry hitman.

“If you’ve got something else to say, say it,” I snarl.

He grips the edge of the table and glares at me as though he’s going to say something, as though he’s going to act tough. But we both know there’s nothing he can say or do to me.

His father and I made a deal.

They can call me any damn thing they want.

But I’ll bring more good to this world than bad, and if that means demolishing their little social club, then so be it.

“Don’t push your luck, Ryland,” Vito snaps.

“Only a foolish man threatens me,” I growl.

“Who’s threatening?” Vito rushes to say, holding his hands up in a prey-like way, a though he’s scared of what I’d do if he even dreamed of disrespecting me. “It’s an honest question, that’s all. Got a guy who says he saw you pack them into your car and drive away, and the girl – that Rosie – she was smiling.

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