Total pages in book: 76
Estimated words: 75699 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75699 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
“Yes. But the Bellamy family could have found someone else to sacrifice other than one of their own sons.”
My father’s right, of course. The Bellamy Ranch employs hundreds. Anyone could have been out that night. Anyone could have gotten hold of Falcon’s gun.
I have a feeling that the Bellamy ranch shrouds more secrets than perhaps even Austin Bellamy himself knows.
“I believe Falcon is a good man,” I say.
“I do as well. Otherwise I wouldn’t have saved his ass.”
“What about his brothers?”
He shrugs. “I wasn’t able to find out too much about them before I had to go to prison. The older one, Hawk, seems good. But I sense that the younger one is a bit of a loose cannon.”
My father has no idea.
“I’ll look into all of them,” I say. “I’ll make sure Savannah is safe.”
He gives a weak smile. “I know you will, Vinnie.”
“I should’ve been here, Dad.” I run my hands through my hair, sighing. “If I had been, Mikey would still be alive.”
“I’ll never stop mourning your brother,” he says. “Just as I’ll never stop mourning your mother.” He looks at me, a small glimmer of light in his eyes. “But I have you, and I have Savannah. I trust Falcon to keep Savannah safe. And you know what I need you to do.”
“I’ll do it, Dad. You have my word.”
I drop him off at the prison, and when I get back to my mother’s home—now my home—my grandfather is waiting for me at the front door.
“I have nothing to say to you.” I brush past him, opening the door.
“Check your email,” he says. “You’re back on that flight to Colombia. Leaving tonight.”
“Send someone else.” I take a step inside the house.
“Nope. I’m sending you.” He grabs my arm. “You want to be my second-in-command? That’s who I need on this mission. You’d be there now if your mother hadn’t had that heart attack.”
I grit my teeth. “Don’t even talk about my mother.”
He frowns, laying a hand over his heart. “You think this isn’t killing me? She was my child.”
“Yes. Your only child.”
His lips twitch.
And I cock my head.
“My mother was trying to tell me something before she died. Something about you. Something about my father.”
He raises an eyebrow. “You mean you haven’t guessed?”
I whip my arm out of his grasp. “Stop playing games with me, old man. If there’s something I need to know about my father, you need to tell me.”
“All you need to know about Vincent Gallo Senior is that he’s a weakling.” Grandfather scowls.
“Weak men don’t kill a man to save their daughter from marriage to a degenerate.”
He says nothing.
“So don’t ever tell me my father’s a weak man again.”
“To the contrary,” he says, “your father is the strongest man I know.”
“But you just said—”
I gulp as the truth hits me.
Hard.
Like a fucking boulder.
Oh my God.
What my mother was trying to tell me…
What my grandfather just said…
A sharp, prickling sensation creeps across my skin, as if every nerve is freezing in place, leaving me numb and rigid.
There’s a reason I look so much like my mother, so much like my grandfather. How adamant he was about wishing he’d never sold my mother off to my father. How resolute he was when he said his blood flows through my veins.
And my father doesn’t know. He doesn’t know.
And all mafia brides are supposed to be virgins…
Nausea grips me, but I resist the urge to double over and retch.
“You fucking bastard,” I grit out.
A wicked grin crawls across his wrinkled face. “Now, Vincent,” he sneers. “Is that any way to speak to your father?”
Vinnie and Raven’s story continues in Victorious Vice!
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A Little Mermaid in a Big Pond
Ariel
My heart thumps so hard I can see it against the teal satin of my strapless dress.
Excerpt from Enticing a BillionaireI don’t belong here.
This dress isn’t me.
These slinky silver sandals with spiky heels aren’t me.
This whole place...so not me.
Yet here I am, about to meet four billionaires who are on this island to find wives.
The other women are way more beautiful and worldly than I am. Evangeline found me at an old-fashioned drive-in diner serving food on roller skates in my small hometown in Alabama. I delivered a loaded burger, curly fries, and diet soda—cue eye roll—to her car, and when she saw me, she removed her designer sunglasses and burned me with her dark eyes.