Savage Covenant: Part of the Gallo Mafia Empire by Jade Marshall & Sofa Aves

Author:Jade Marshall & Sofa Aves [Marshall, Jade & Aves, Sofa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2024-03-14T18:30:00+00:00

Sunlight lances across the white sheets that cover Thalia’s body just enough to outline the perfection of her shape. Between us, Luca and I have brought out her sweet curves with a lot of TLC.

Now, I jeopardize everything we’ve worked for.

“Wake up, honey,” I murmur, trailing the backs of my knuckles over her cheek. “I don’t want to do this, but we have to talk.” I keep stroking her gently as she turns into my touch, arching her cheek into my palm when I turn my hand to cup her face. Her lips nuzzle sweetly against my skin, and my body aches with the need to strip down and hold her to my chest.

But what I want is impossible.

“Wake up, Thalia,” I whisper, my voice lower than I want, reflecting the hunger within me.

Her eyes fly open at the sound, and she backs herself so far across the bed I worry she’ll fall off the other side. Her mouth opens in a silent scream, her hands clawing in my direction.

I hold up both of mine, palms facing forward in supplication. “I’m not a danger to you, Thalia. I never was nor ever will be. I promise you. But something’s happened, and we need to talk.” I suck in a long breath, unused to speaking so many long sentences to her after our months of silence.

Her gaze darts around the room, taking in the bright window I left open for her, hoping the fresh air would help. She sees the door is shut and locked.

This isn’t a conversation I want Luca or Rafe or any other dirty fucker with murder on their minds to interrupt. We will do this at my speed, and hers, even if it takes me all day.

Even if I have to break her.

Because four more women’s lives—and Thalia’s—might rely on what she isn’t telling us.

That she’s able to speak has never been in doubt, at least for me. This girl chooses to hold her silence, and I need to break through whatever deep-seated fear keeps her that way.

“Come here,” I say softly, disguising the command as best I can.

She looks at me uncertainly through her lashes, hiding from me like she did that first night. She grips that sheet to her like a shield, her breaths shallow and too fast.

“Thalia,” I murmur and sigh. I can’t sugarcoat this any longer. “The girls we saved are dying. The girls like you.” My voice cracks on that last word, and it’s what gets her attention.

Her brow dips, forming lines across her forehead. She presses her hand to her chest, her fingers uncurling from the sheet.

I nod. “Yes. You’re in danger too. So are the remaining four.”

Three fingers press to her clavicle, and her eyes fill with tears.

“They won’t be the last if we can’t understand why the girls are dying. If your friend…” I inhale fast as her tears start to fall, and voice the suspicions I’ve held since that night. “If she was murdered … made to look like a suicide.

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