“Better?”
“Yes, your body is like a furnace.” I lie my whole body on his. “Devious, I will never cheat on you with anyone.”
“I know,” he exhales.
“How do you know?”
“The day I took you from Lex, I asked him if you were capable of being loyal and he told me you were.”
I have no response because he’s so wrong about me.
Devious
I’M GOING DOWN THE RABBIT hole of Roselyn and I need to keep my distance, so I won’t fall in love with her. I do like the little Sea Nymph who spits her feisty words at me. It’s been a whole fucking week since I took her to Greece.
After spilling my guts to her about Shelby and Santo, she looks at me more like a person and less like a monster. She didn’t judge, which I expected her to do. I stand in front of the cell where Maya is staying. My brother and I have another manor where he trains women and sell them for a profit. Some I keep, and if they don’t make me enough money, I sell them. I tuck my hands in my pocket as Aiden removes the chains from around her wrist and ankle. She lost the color in her rosy cheeks and her golden red hair is cut short. I haven’t seen her since she was fifteen years old. Aiden grabs her by the hair, and she screams at the top of her lungs with tears in her eyes. He forces her to sit on the thin cot.
Her brown doe eyes stare at me as she wraps her arms around her knees. She’s beautiful and my brother is staring at her as if he wants to keep her for himself.
“I used to look up to you as my big brother Cayden, and you do this?” Tears tickle down her cheeks. She was like a little sister to me. She used to tag along with Cashel every time we hung out and I used to help her with her homework. When I needed extra money and Draco was being a dick by not paying for my college tuition, I used to babysit her for quick cash, but the ship has sailed. Maya is not six years old, she’s twenty-one. I hate to bring her into this, but I need to find Cashel and she can tell me where he’s at.
“Cashel is going to kill you for what you’re doing to me and he’s going to get me out of here.” She spits in my face and I back hand her hard. I grab her by the neck lifting her off the ground, squeezing tight.
“By the time Cashel discovers you missing, you’ll be sold to one of my clients, getting fucked in every hole. I toss her body to the ground like a rag doll then I wipe the spit from my face.
She coughs, scratching at her throat with tears running down her cheek and snot slithering from her nose.
“You spit in my face again, I’ll gut you like a little fish,” I say. “Chain her back to the wall.”
He nods and does what I say. She screams, calling me every name in the book.
As soon as he is done, we take the elevator to the second floor to the spacious kitchen. I move to the stainless-steel fridge and grab myself a beer, then I sit on the leather barstool. I glance out the window at the backyard. We’re far away from the city. Aiden rests his hand on the granite white counter.
“How was your trip to Santorini?” he asks, grabbing the bottle of bourbon, pouring into a crystal shot glass.
“It was great.”
“Oh, shit. You’re into Roselyn.” His smile is smug.
My brother knows me like the back of my hand, and he knows how obsessive I can get with the one I want.
I’m staying the night here with him then I’m going home in the morning. Marla is staying the night with Roselyn to keep her company. I insisted on Roselyn hanging out with the Don’s wives, but she’s told me they aren’t her type of women.
“She tried to kill me on our wedding night.”
“You must have a soft spot for her because if it was anyone else you would have killed them.” He shakes his head.
I don’t say anything but keep one hand in my pocket and the other on the brown beer bottle.
“I knew Roselyn was feisty, but God damn the woman is a loose cannon.” He chuckles, with his glass on his lips, then he drinks his whiskey. “You always liked toxic women,” he says, laughing.
“You like toxic women too. What about the last girl you were fucking? What was her name, Leah?”
“Sienna,” he corrects.
“You had no business fucking an outsider, but you did it anyway. You paid the price with Draco. You never liked to follow the rules.”
“That’s why I slit his throat and I’d do it again too. I give zero fucks about the rules of the mafia. Some of the shit we do is stupid.” He clutches his glass hard.
“What are your thoughts on me asking her to be with me?”
“Honestly bro. I’m against marriage. You know, I don’t want marriage, but if you want to make it work between you and her, then have at it. Me and you are completely opposites, you’re composed and were the type to settle down, and it was never me. Might keep a pet around, but that’s as far as it goes.”
I nod. He’s right. I always kept a casual girlfriend and when I got tired of their shit, I’ll kick them to the curb, especially if I couldn’t experience the level of adrenaline I love. Roselyn keeps me on my toes. She doesn’t take my shit and she’ll put me in my place. She fears me but she faces me at the same time. My dick is getting hard thinking about her.
“You want to play some pool?” Aiden asks.
“You sure you want to get your ass kicked by your
