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Born into blood, I was a mafia princess. Raised in hiding, I was a Californian sweetheart.
The day my father sold my thirteen year old body to pay off a five year old debt was the day my mother stole me in the dead of night. She protected me as she was supposed to.
My father may have been the king, but my mother was the queen.
The mafia blood was hers.
That was ten years ago. Now… the devil was on the loose.
Carlo ‘Hunter’ Rosso was my father’s right hand man and the boy I’d loved since I could tie my own shoelaces. He was always the most ruthless and the most deadly of all the children.
He’d thought I was dead until the day his assignment was given: Kill Adriana and Alexandria Romano. Kill the princess, and definitely kill the queen.
What he didn’t know was that the queen was dead, and the princess had taken her throne.
Blood didn’t lie. It smeared, distorted, stained. But it didn’t lie.
My father was going to learn the hard way that the empire he’d stolen belonged to me.
And so did Carlo ‘Hunter’ Rosso.
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“Staying, are you? Figure it's easier to kill
me in my sleep?”
Once again, he rubbed his hand across his
face. He said nothing.
“Trying to work out whose life is worth more,
right? Mine is probably worth a lifetime of comfort for you. Kill me and
everyone's happy, right? My pathetic excuse for a father gets to keep his
empire and you're taken care of for life.”
He looked at me, and his expression was a
little tortured. I was being harsh. I knew that. But I needed to be. It was
easier to provoke him and be angry with him than give in to the horrible ache
that had settled in my heart.
“Adriana...” Weak. The word was weak.
I wanted to ignore the indecision on his face,
but I couldn't.
He was considering it.
He really was.
I scoffed quietly at him and grabbed the gun
from the coffee table. His mask and gloves fell to the floor, but he made no
move to pick them up. The safety was on the gun, and I held it out to him.
“Here. Take it. I don't care, Hunter. I don't have much of a life here in
hiding anyway.”
He didn't even look at the gun. His silvery
gaze never left mine. I wished he would look away, because in that gaze, I saw
the Hunter I knew. The boy who once ripped his favorite shirt to stem the
bleeding when I fell and cut my leg, then proceeded to carry me home. The boy
who offered to pee on my foot when I got stung by a jellyfish in Mexico on
vacation when I was seven.
The boy I loved before I knew what love even
was.
“You're weak, Hunter,” I whispered. Slowly, I
turned the gun back to me and touched the barrel to my temple the way he did
earlier. His jaw clenched when my thumb edged toward the safety, and when my
finger moved to hook around the trigger, he moved.
He was like a lightning bolt. He came at me
like a flash, snatched the gun from my hand, and dropped it on the sofa. It
bounced but stayed on the seat, and then he turned on me with blazing eyes.
“Don't,” he ground out, his arms tensing and looking even bigger. “Don't ever
fucking put that to your head again.”
“Why? I was saving you the job.”
The words had barely left my lips when he
pounced on me. It was deadly, the way his hands clasped my face and his mouth
descended on mine. I staggered back into the wall, gasping at the ferocity of
his movement. Shock paralyzed me as he kissed me harshly. His tongue ran along
the seam of my mouth, and as I fisted the sides of his shirt, I bit his lower
lip.
A low growl left his throat, but he didn't
relent. He just kissed me harder. He kissed me until I was fucking spinning and
could barely string two thoughts together. Until my whole body was alight with
his touch and responding to his every movement.
He tasted like whiskey. The strong, rich taste
that lingered on his lips was heady and only added to the intoxicating way he
touched me.
And then... It hit me. He was touching me.
Kissing me.
Twenty minutes ago, he could have killed me.
Blaire Drake is a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author who wanted to think outside her box and write the kind of things that would shock even them. She loves taboo romance and pushing boundaries in her work. She also enjoys long walks on the beach at sunset, as long as it’ll be followed by a good, old-fashioned spanking right after.
DEAR PROFESSOR is her debut standalone novel, and her next book, HUNTER, is also a standalone novel that promises to be equally as taboo and sexy.
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