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Dominic
I came from nothing andemergedas a powerful businessman and ruthless leader of the Philadelphia mafia. I rule with a brutal fist if you dare cross me. The one thing I don’t have is the monopoly on the underground drug market.
When a business associate makes a costly mistake, he offers me an ace in the whole. His daughter.
I’m not looking for a wife but marrying Callie Hawkins ensures I come out victorious.
Nothing will stop me.
Not even the emerging feelings I can’t deny.
The only question is what choice I make when my ambition means choosing between love and life.
Callie
Being raised by a father with a gambling addiction literally cost me everything.
When I need protection the most, my father isn’t the solace he should be. Instead, he trades me off to save his own skin.
All I have to do is marry Dominic Delgado- head of the Philadelphia mafia and sacrifice all my dreams and hard work.
Until Dominic worms his way under my skin, into my heart, and pulls me right into his bed— tasting like sin and salvation all at once.
He offers me a life I couldn’t even dream of but happily ever after doesn’t come easy when your marriage is built on lies and you don’t know who you can trust.
Chapter 1
Dominic
The devil comes in many forms. He is the deceiver of deceivers. He is a murderer, devious, cunning in every way. He waits until you are at your weakest to attack. You’ll never see him coming because he’s charming, with a warm, flashy smile. Dark eyes, dark locks... I’m everything you think I should be… until I’m not.
All in a day's work, I conned a conman adding a few more zeros to my net worth, bribed a straight edged politician by twisting his minor indiscretions to my advantage, fired my secretary of ten years and corrupted the sweet twenty-four-year-old the temp agency sent as her replacement. She’s spread eagle across the top of my custom-made spiral desk.
“Stephanie.” I draw out her name.
I suck the curvy flesh of her neck as she squirms beneath me, unsure of what she’s gotten herself into. The points of her hard nipples poke me in the chest as reward for my arousing ministrations. Her pussy is soaking wet, throbbing against my hard cock threatening to bust out from behind the zipper of my slacks. Her delicate perfume of flowers and saltwater invades my nose, and my pulse quickens. Just as I’m about to free myself and take her, a pounding on the door causes her to squirm away from me. The flustered look on her face arouses me even more. I grip her hips and yank her back toward me when more pounding sounds from behind the door, getting louder and louder.
“Fuck.” I growl, adjusting my hard cock in my pants and reaching under my desk to press the button that remotely unlocks my office door. “This better be life or death.”
Dixon, my bodyguard, stops in his tracks in the doorway, roaming his eyes over the hot mess of my secretary with her blouse unbuttoned and her skirt hiked up to her waist. He smirks and shoots his eyes back to mine. “Sorry to interrupt Boss but you asked to be informed immediately when we had Danny Hawkins.”
“Something wrong with the phone?” I quip, catching the movement of my secretary out of the corner of my eye. She’s now crawled off my desk and is quickly tidying her clothing. The look of embarrassment and regret staining her cheeks.
“Take the rest of the day off.” I don’t wait for her response. The moment has passed, and my cock is no longer interested, not with the knowledge of what awaits me. I slip my suit jacket back on and lead the way out of my office, slapping Dixon in the chest as I push past him. His eyes are still bulging out of his head as he stares at my almost conquest. “It pays to be the Boss.”
“Lucky son of a bitch.” He mumbles following me down the hall.
The private elevator opens when it reaches my office floor, one level below my sprawling loft at the top of the massive office building overlooking Center City. We step inside and I insert my key to access the basement level, which is off limits to everyone but myself and the men in my inner circle.
“Where was he found?” I ask Dixon as the elevator descends.
“Newark, purchasing two tickets to Mexico.” The door opens at its lowest point, three floors below the main level that houses the reception area and security offices. It’s private and isolated which makes it ideal for the delicate business matters handled down here.
Dixon and I step out of the elevator and head down the long cement hallway to a single metal door at the end. Outside the door Carlos stands guard, his stance wide and his hand on his gun at his hip. He nods as we approach and turns to rap twice on the door, pauses and raps twice more. The door is unlocked from the inside and both Manny and Carlos step aside as I enter.
Daniel, aka Danny Hawkins, eyes widen, and his face turns ghostly white when I step through. I know what he’s thinking as he quakes in my shadow. He thought he was untouchable, but he was wrong. The fear of seeing me, the man he betrayed while he’s trapped in this vulnerable position, makes him tremble.
I don’t flaunt my criminality. I conduct my business from behind a well-executed enterprise designed to hide my dark side from the public eye. Appearances are everything and mine screams successful, upstanding citizen. I don’t usually have to get my hands dirty anymore but when greed cuts into my profits, the bloodlust surfaces and I resort back to my old ways.
