Surrender Becomes Power: A Dark Romance Mafia Love Triangle by Kellie Storm & Amelia Kappe

Author:Kellie Storm & Amelia Kappe [Storm, Kellie & Kappe, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

AVALYNE

Where the hell is the bathroom? Places like these are ridiculous. Let’s have someone walk through a maze of hallways and marble pillars with a bladder that's about to burst. But, fortunately, I don’t have to use the restroom. I need air. Any air that doesn’t involve Rocco, Damien, or Damien’s date.

“Finally.” I find a balcony that is lined with white and sand-colored marble. It’s absolutely gorgeous. It reminds me of the balcony my dad has off of his bedroom. A memory that makes me sad. I get lost in thoughts and memories that I’ve tucked away for a while now.

He’s here. “Avalyne.”

Without turning around, I answer in a hushed voice. “Damien. What are you doing here?”

“Ava, I need to talk to you. Please.”

Damien Alarie. My life. My love. My kryptonite.

I turn to him, finding him closer to me than I thought he was. “So you’re finally ‘doing relationships’ again?”

“It’s just a date. In fact, if it wasn’t frowned upon, I’d tape her mouth shut, put her in the back of a car and have the driver take her home,” he deadpans.

I laugh. Dammit.

“Damien, I don’t think you should be here—with me,” I lie. I want him here. I miss him. But my anger towards him hasn’t diminished. He treated me like a leper.

I feel him closing the distance between us, pressing me against the cold marble pillar.

“I was wrong to push you away. I promised I’d be there for you, and that’s what I thought I was doing. I thought if I pushed you away, I could protect you. That it would keep you safe.” His voice breaks at the end and he blinks back a single tear.

“Damien, you ruined me,” I whisper through gritted teeth. “I needed you and you pushed me away. I left all I had to be with you.” I feel myself losing control. “I loved you.”

“Loved.” He exhales.

“Dammit, Damien! I hate you, and I love you, and I’m losing my fucking mind!”

He grins with his eyes flicking between mine. Saying nothing, but saying everything.

My walls crack and start to tumble, rock by rock and pebble by pebble. I know that if my eyes drop to his exquisite lips, this could be the beginning of my own personal hell. But then it happens. I let my eyes take in his features. He has more stubble than before, accentuating his kissable lips.

As his breath meshes with mine, my eyes flutter closed, hoping … dying for him to kiss me. His elbow is propping him against the pillar behind me as he brings his mouth to the shell of my ear.

“I still love you, Firefly. I will always love you.” He pushes himself back slightly and finds my eyes.

“Avalyne?” A shout comes from down the hallway, breaking me out of this trance.

“Get away from me, Damien! We are never going to happen.” I push his chest and take a few steps away and lean over the banister to catch my breath.

“There you are. I’d thought you left,” Rocco says, eyeing Damien.

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