7 Nights With My Step Brother's Rival

like a siren in the small,

cut through the thick tension of t

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roll in her chest. Her father

etching long and jagged across the s

e cold, predatory eyes, waiti

in. His voice was like a low

violently she almost dropped the device. sh

ad

sounded thin. Brittle. Like dry leaves being

that gala. Tell me it isn't tru

, his face inches from hers, listening to every wo

her voice cracking. "It's a

l us!" Her father started coughing, a deep,

use you to get to me. He wants

ase, just go to sleep. We

ndle the sound of his weakness anymore. Not when the man who w

the cushions. "He sounds pathetic. Is that the man you're try

gainst Dante's chest. "Whatever he did, he did it for us! Y

isting it just enough to make her gasp. He pulle

t fifteen years protecting the memory of a man who was

to me about

slit of her gown fluttering against her legs. She tried to fi

e, and she was just a g

the moon reflecting off the river outside. Da

ing to that dangerous, velvet growl. "You chose the man

very specific ki

e red silk tie

ion. About understanding. But you've proven t

t the edge of the bed. "Dante, don't.

be scared,

ush. He didn't have to. He took

he scent of his expensive cologne mixing with t

lk over her eyes,

rld va

reaching out into the darknes

like it. You just

s hands on the zipper of her dress. The sound o

nd she shivered. The dress fell away, po

on her neck. "Since you like to look for things that don't

You're going to listen to me, and

of the silk sheets felt different. Rougher. Thicker. She fe

Where

right

at her ankle, a slow, deliberate line drawn by a single finger up

her eyes, every nerve ending in h

te said. She felt him lean over her, his v

he second ledger? The one Ju

d to ask. Her voice sounded

bes. The shortcuts. The construction sites that collapsed bec

my father ever got behin

e of her underwear. Sienna wanted to clo

hat t

s the difference between me

skin of her stomach, his stubble grazing her. Sienna felt a

was doing, but her body was responding to him wi

s shoulders. He was solid. Real. The

lling me this?"

now exactly whose debt y

ogation. He tasted like whiskey and bitterness, but as she opened to hi

sensation. Dante was a phantom in the room, appearing and di

, testing her, making her beg for the blin

d. "You haven't surrendered yet. You're still f

cried out, her voice breaking. "I j

to the pillows. "Tell me you don't want Julian. Tell m

enna was lost in the dark, her body hu

fraying, worn thin by the truth and the sh

y want you,

ion in the room snapped. Dante let out a low

r squint. Dante was hovering over her, hi

looked like a man who was starving a

was different. It was despe

led thud sounded from the living room. It wasn't the front door. It

her, reaching for the handgun

whispered, his v

te,

ghost. Sienna scrambled to wrap herself in the silk robe

scream echoed thro

e's scream. It

e's warning. She reached the hallway just in time to

earing a maid's uniform, but her face was covered in

with terrified eyes. "I found the second ledge

his eyes wide. He looked a

saw

spered. "The ones Silas sent. They're in t

ickered and died. The entire building went into lockdown, t

ering glass erupte

s hand, pulling her b

sped. "Is that it? Th

ce grim as he checked the magazine of his gun. "And it looks like

m door. Then another. Someo

the red light. "I can save you, or I can