Shielded Wrongs
Bellandi Crime Syndicate #4
Adelaide Forrest
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About the Author
Adelaide lives in her tiny house with her husband and two rambunctious kids. When she's not chasing all three of them and her dog around the house, she spends all her free time writing and adding to the hoard of plots stored on her bookshelf and hard-drive.
She always wanted to write, and did from the time she was ten and wrote her first full-length fantasy novel. The subject matter has changed over the years, but that passion for writing never went away.
She has a background in Psychology and working with horses. But Adelaide began her publishing journey in September 2019 and never looked back.
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About Shielded Wrongs
Sadie
Of all the Bellandi men, Lorenzo Vescovi should have been my safety. The one who would understand right from wrong.
But there’s a demon inside him, a cold-blooded killing machine begging to be freed from what remains of his humanity.
I tempt him. I tease him, just by being me.
And when war erupts all around us, I have to hope I’m strong enough to withstand the flames of his possession.
Enzo
Of all the women in the world, Sadie is the one I should stay the farthest away from. The one my boss forbids me from touching.
But one look at her honey eyes, and I’m lost to the need to make her mine.
She’s a mess of contradictions and full of jagged edges that threaten to pull me apart at the seams and unleash the beast lurking within.
I can’t resist her rebellions. But when she’s threatened by my enemies, I’ll risk everything to keep her safe.
Even my humanity.
Shielded Wrongs is a full-length standalone novel with an HEA, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested reading order.
This series contains dark elements, including an over-the-top antihero who does as he pleases. Please read at your own discretion.
Disclaimer
Shielded Wrongs is a full-length standalone novel with an HEA, but the series presents a better reading experience when following the suggested reading order. This series contains dark elements, including an over-the-top antihero who does as he pleases. Please read at your own discretion.
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Soundtrack
The songs from Adelaide’s Playlist.
“Love It – Rework Mix” – UNSECRET & Ivory Layne
“RULES” – AViVA
“Trouble” – CRMNL
“Be Legendary” – Pop Evil
“Born for This” – CRMNL
“Bullet Proof” – Simple Thieves & Sam Tinnesz
“Bloodshot” – Sam Tinnesz
“Watching for Comets” – Skillet
“Brotherhood” – Miza & Rosendale
“Are You Listening?” – Wake Me
“Pretty Little Psycho” – Nine Shrines
“Give ‘em Hell” – Everybody Loves an Outlaw
“Giants” – Dermot Kennedy
“Jekyll & Hyde” – Bishop Briggs & White Panda
“Origin” – Besomorph
“The Time of Our Lives” – The Venice Connection
“The Still, Cold World” – Piotr Musial
“Six Feet Under” – Oshins & Leslie Powell
“Nine Lives” – Stella and the Storm
“Warrior (Stand Up)” – Hidden Citizens & Rayelle
“Serves You Right” – DIAMANTE
“All Eyes on You” – Smash Into Pieces
“Lost Within” – Fivefold”
“Animal in Me” – Solence
“Come and Get it from Me” – Sun Heat
“Kerosene” – Rachel Lorin
“Liar” – Harina
“Cherry Pie” – Warrant
“Sweet Dreams (are Made of This)” – Marilyn Manson
“Tainted Love” – Marilyn Manson
“Devil Inside” – CRMNL
“Stronger” – The Phantoms & Black Violin
“Paint it Black” - Ciara
“Mere Anarchy” – Moby
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Epilogue
Scarred Regrets Sneak Peek
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1 Sadie
Winter brought with it the stench of death, lingering in the air like something palpable. Like corpses lying just out of sight beyond the horizon, a warning of blood on frost-covered and wilted grass that we couldn’t yet see.
But war had come, and all I could do was wait in the calm before the tides tore the city to shreds. Not really one of them, not really not. I’d become a halfway girl to a family I’d never asked for but couldn’t turn my back on either.
Shaking off the chill to the air and the way it clung to my skin with warning, in the dim light of dawn I hurried down the exterior steps on the side of the building. Even though the weather had been unseasonable as of late, the tiny commute down the stairs and around to the front of the gym still filled me with dread. Before my best friend Ivory’s, involvement with the Bellandi family, I’d been secure in my little corner of Chicago. Having met just a sample of the monsters that lurked within the city, I knew there were fates worse than death, and all that stood between them and the greater population was a group of men nobody would call heroes.
In common terms, the city as I knew it never existed. Lost to a world of crime most of us never dreamed of.
I’d take the cold over the uncharacteristic warmth if it meant returning to the peace of relative ignorance. Usually this time of year made my nose want to fall off and my dark hair freeze to my head before I could get inside the gym. Instead, I barely shivered in my jacket, but I still hated the fucking cold and everything that came with it.
When I rounded the bottom of my steps, my spine prickled with unease. With all the training, all the survivors I’d worked with over the years, I learned to trust
