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That’s how they worked, right? They drew you in, then took you under. They made you want, made you love, made you trust more than you thought possible.
“I will protect you,” he said carefully. “I will make sure no one ever finds out.”
“For money,” I said as the cold moved through me.
“For love,” he answered. “Your father’s and mine.”
“Do you really think I can love you after this?”
He flinched at the words and came toward me, flanking my side to stand at my back. I lifted my gaze to us in the uncovered mirror. “I hope so,” he murmured, and caressed my body, spreading his hand wide to cup my breast. “Jesus, Anna.” He rocked backwards, and the haunted look in his eyes grew darker. “There’s no other way. No other way that doesn’t end with you, or your dad dying at the hands of my father.”
The panicked thud ached. It was like someone was squeezing my heart, clenching until all the blood drained free. Is this what it meant to love someone like Finley? Is this what I meant to fall for a Mafia Prince?
“If not love, then I’ll take whatever you can give me.” He murmured.
“What if that is hate?” I growled, and yet even as I said the words, I knew they were a lie.
“I’ll take it.” He kneaded my breast and dropped his head to my neck, kissing and biting, hard enough for me to know how savage he was feeling in that moment. “I’ll take it all, however you come to me…just as long as you come to me.”
He slid his hands to the front of my jeans, his fingers working the button before plunging inside my panties. I lifted my arms, reaching over his shoulders as he slid his finger along my slit. “Now, are you going to launder for me, Anna?” He bent lower, slipping a finger inside me. “Or will you force me to do something I’ll fucking regret?”
I grasped the back of his neck, pulling him hard against me, craving his touch, his brutal fucking touch.
“Take it off, Anna,” Finley murmured in my ear. “Take it off and tell me you’re mine…forever.”
Forever.
“Anna…no!”my father screamed in the room next door.“Let her go, you fucking bastard!”
I held Finley’s gaze in the mirror as he reached into the pocket of his jeans and drew out a wad of money. "Make your decision, launderer. Will you be mine?”
He had blood on his knuckles, blood he’d spilled for me.
He'd said he’d fight for me, said he’d inflict the kind of violence that’d make me scared of him. I already knew what he did…and knew he was capable of more. I knew this because he had everything now.
My loyalty and my lies.
I lifted my hands to the buttons of my filthy shirt and opened them one by one.
They were all his now, every dark and dirty secret I’d ever owned.
They were his demons to carry around now.
If I had a chance to do it over, would I have come here to this place…toCosa Nostra Institute?I wanted to say no. The sight of Max’s dead body pushed into my mind. I wanted to say the price was too great. You see, when you lie down with lions, you aren’t really protected at all. You’re just like them.
A hunter.
I’d done things on the island…terrible things.
“Make your decision, Anna,” Fin urged in my ear, holding the wad of cash in one hand, and reached to clamp my throat with the other. “Tell me what I want to know?”
A million dollars laundered?
A billion?
It didn’t matter, money was useless…money wasneverwhat I'd wanted.
It had always been him.
