Merciless Attraction: A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance by Riley Celeste

Author:Riley, Celeste
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Celestine Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Gemma

The moment Casper and Bash show up to my apartment, the energy shifts. Casper looks around my place, runs his finger along the chair rail, and glances at Damian. Damian’s no longer scrubbing my countertop as he stands in front of the peninsula island with his arms folded over his chest.

Antonio’s standing beside the window, his eyes scanning the darkness of the street in front of the house. Natalie’s hands are like a steeple holding up her head as she glares at the package on the table. My heart races every time I stare at the rosary beads that are supposed to be clutched in a dead man’s hand at the bottom of the East River.

Casper’s voice is low when he speaks. “I need your phones off and put them upstairs.”

Dread washes over me as we all power our phones off and hand them over to Damian who heads upstairs to put them in Natalie’s apartment. When he gets back, Bash closes and locks the door behind him.

Bash is still in pain from the other night as he stands in front of the door, looking like a younger version of our dad. Dark hair and dark gray eyes stare at me with disappointment. He groans and Antonio moves away from the window to sit beside me.

“Tell me exactly what happened, Gemma,” Bash demands with restraint in his voice.

My eyes shift from him to Natalie. She has an expression mirroring the worry inching through my body. Antonio rubs my shoulder from beside me as I dredge up memories from nearly a year ago.

“Steve was going on and on about meeting you guys for the two years we were friends and then the entire year we dated,” I tell them.

“The grease monkey?” Casper asks, running his fingers through his light brown hair. His familial dark gray eyes narrow at me as his brow furrows, likely trying to remember what Steve looked like.

“He said he worked at a body shop, but I don’t know,” I shrug my shoulders. “We dated for practically a year. Way back, like last September, he started dropping hints that he wanted to come around and meet you guys. Ma and Pop had already left for Sicily.”

Bash nods slowly. “It’s starting to come back to me. They left and I was trying to sell the house. He met up with us at that restaurant, but he was like a fucking Energizer bunny.”

“I didn’t like him,” Damian growls from behind my kitchen counter. He’s now sitting on top of it to stop himself from cleaning it all over again.

“Yeah. After you guys brushed him off, he wanted me to do more to convince La Familia to bring him in. I tried to tell him it doesn’t work like that. I don’t have any say on who you guys work with or anything. When he finally got that through his thick skull, he broke up with me.”

Bash simply sighs, folding his arms across his chest. “Then what happened.”

“About eight months ago.

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