“Ti amo troppo per lasciarti andare.” The phrases slip from my lips earlier than I can cease them. I like you an excessive amount of to allow you to go. It is a reality that terrifies me. In my world, love is a legal responsibility, a weak spot. But right here I’m, wielding it like a fucking weapon, able to carve via anybody who threatens to take her from me.

“I do not perceive,” she whispers.

“I stated not even hell can pry you from my grip now, cara.” That is not what I stated, nevertheless it’s shut sufficient for now.

We have not talked about it, however I believe she is aware of I am a person of violence, one with blood on his arms and homicide in his coronary heart. However she’s right here anyway. In my arms. I’ve to imagine that is as a result of she’s falling for me, too. However I am hedging my bets. I would like her wild about me earlier than she is aware of the reality. It is the one manner I can assure I maintain her in the long run.

It is fucked up, however I by no means stated I used to be a great man. I simply stated I used to be one who wants her to outlive.

“Present me,” she says, her voice a siren’s name that I am helpless to withstand.

“Present you what?” I ask, at the same time as my arms roam over her, stripping her naked.

“Every part,” she replies, her lips curving in a smile that is all sin and promise.

I carry her effortlessly as her legs wrap round me. My mouth crashes down on hers, claiming her as I plunge into her, deep and unyielding.

She gasps, a sound that sears itself into my reminiscence, marking me. Fuck. I’m hers, all the best way all the way down to my bones.

“Karina.” Her title erupts extra like a prayer spilling from lips which have kissed loss of life too typically.

Her nails dig into my shoulders, anchoring her to this second, to me, and all I can take into consideration is how proper it feels to be buried inside her. That is the place I belong—proper right here like this.

“God, Coda,” she breathes, her voice laced with pleasure and ache as I fuck her.

“Shh, simply really feel,” I command, although it is myself I am attempting to persuade. Really feel her heat, her life, her love—really feel the whole lot however the chilly hand of retribution that claws at my soul, demanding vengeance. For as soon as, do not be me—the chilly, ruthless motherfucker who lives and dies by the gun. Be hers, somebody worthy of an angel.

“Coda,” she whispers. “My Coda.”

Her phrases silence the chaos churning inside me.

I maintain her shut and fuck her laborious as her climax shudders via her. And I do know one factor with terrifying readability—I will burn the world to the fucking floor to maintain this, to maintain her. Even when the flames eat me, too.

Chapter Six

Karina

Gravel crunches beneath my Sketchers as I method the acquainted purple brick home the place I grew up. Home windows line the entrance of the home, too massive to cover so many secrets and techniques. The American flag on the porch ripples in a present of patriotism my father solely claims to really feel. His solely actual loyalty is to himself.

Nervous vitality whispers via me, however I push it down, refusing to let concern chase me away. He is at work and Coda is…nicely, I am not fully positive the place he goes when he is not with me. However I drove myself to class right this moment as a result of he had issues to do.

I did not thoughts. It left me a small window to come back right here to gather the few issues that matter to me. I believe he would have most well-liked me to remain hidden in his apartment, however I can not try this. It doesn’t matter what my father is as much as, life has to go on.

I will not be a prisoner to his crimes. He is tried for years to make me one. I by no means understood why till not too long ago. As long as I am beneath his thumb, he thinks I can not activate him. He controls me and what I do know, what I say…what I do. His warnings about not trusting anyway and staying away from males like Coda, they had been by no means to guard me. He meant solely to guard himself and his secrets and techniques.

My hand is regular as I punch within the storage code. The quiet click on of the lock disengaging seems like the beginning of a countdown. To what, I do not know.

Inside, the air smells like motor oil and outdated recollections.

I believe we had been completely satisfied as soon as. Nevertheless it’s been so way back I barely keep in mind it. Again earlier than my mother left him. I at all times thought she was uninterested in being tethered to a cop. Possibly she was simply uninterested in being chained to 1 who did not deserve the badge.

I will by no means know. She died earlier than my freshman 12 months of highschool in a boating accident.

I slip via the door into the kitchen. The house is just too silent, too nonetheless. Every part is neat and tidy, an extension of my father. Even right here in his own residence, appearances matter to him.

A spot for the whole lot and the whole lot as an alternative.

Aside from me. I do not match right here. Even after I tried to pretend it, tried to faux I used to be the right daughter, a storm brewed beneath the floor. I did not belong then, and I belong even much less now.

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