Savage Roses: A Dark Mafia Romance (Gangsters & Roses Book 3) by Sienne Vega

Author:Sienne Vega [Vega, Sienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

It’s Christmas Eve night. Rather than keeping my promise to my wife and kids, I’m begrudgingly breaking it, as I step off the subway escalator and peer up at the towering skyscraper.

Flakes of snow have begun falling in slow motion.

Festive holiday lights twinkle from every direction. They’re wound along street lights and lamp posts. In trees and store windows. Cheerful and bright.

Only a few blocks away, the Christmas market knows its most crowded night of the year. Many deep in the city make a tradition out of visiting the night before the real thing.

Meanwhile, other traditions fall by the wayside; Leontine is probably shaking her head at home, standing in front of the extravagant feast prepared for tonight’s family dinner. If I know my wife well, she’s dressed up and so have the kids. The house is probably resonating with Christmas music and carrying pleasing notes of pine and cedar.

And here I am, breaking their hearts.

I heave a deep sigh, and with a rueful shake of my head, I plunge onward. Dressed in my trench coat, suit, and briefcase, I put on the same power walk I had earlier when navigating my morning. These cronies aren’t going to shake my confidence.

I’m Ernest Huxley Adams.

I always come out on top. I always win. One way or another, I’ll make sure of it.

The elevator ride up to the top is forty-seven floors. It dings once it reaches the top level, the doors parting down the middle. I take in a final breath and then stride forward.

Being minutes before seven-thirty in the evening on Christmas Eve, the place is a ghost town. The staff and executives are nowhere to be found.

I don’t encounter a single soul my whole journey to the roof.

They’re waiting for me when I arrive.

Men I don’t know but have seen before—the faceless, nameless nobodies who do the Neptune Society’s dirty work. They’re dressed primly in suits and ties with expressions that give nothing away.

They watch as I approach them. I stop only a few feet away, wrench the photo from my pocket, and toss it at their feet. The winter air catches it, slowing up its descent, letting it drift to a gentle fall on the ground.

“Your photo,” I say with audible loathing. “My acquiescing to any requests ends here. You sickos have the wrong idea if you think you’ll be able to get me. Go ahead, leak whatever you have on my father. I don’t give a damn. It won’t make me bend to your will.”

A hideous man with a jagged scare on his cheek stands in the center of the other two and appears to be the spokesman. “You don’t want what we have to get leaked to the public.”

That’s true, but I refrain from telling him that.

“I don’t care,” I say.

“You do. You care very much,” he replies. He steps forward to pick up the fallen photo with long fingers, his nails chewed up. “What if I told you we’re willing to make a deal with

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