Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 89772 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 449(@200wpm)___ 359(@250wpm)___ 299(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 89772 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 449(@200wpm)___ 359(@250wpm)___ 299(@300wpm)
It was only a matter of time until she saw the side of me I’ve never tried to hide from her or anyone else. If she didn’t like who I ruthlessly was, then she’d have to get used to it. I wouldn’t change for her or anyone.
“At the end of the day, my family comes first over everything.” I stepped toward her and she stepped back. “What, baby? You fucking scared of me now? You weren’t scared of me last night when you were panting beneath me, soaking your panties, and dry fucking the shit out of my cock!”
She didn’t hesitate, slapping me across the face. “You don’t get to speak to me like that! Ever!”
I touched the side of my face, feeling the sting from her hand. Cocking my head to the side, I growled before forcefully gripping onto her hair at the nook of her neck and yanking it back, hard.
Hovering above her petite frame, I gritted through a clenched jaw, “If you ever put your hands on me again, I’ll—”
“You’ll what? Hit me?” she bit, her chest rising and falling. “I thought you said you weren’t like my father?”
I let her go, jostling her away from me. Quickly turning around, needing a minute to control myself and rein in the devil. No longer able to look at her with love.
Only anger.
“Do I have your attention now?”
“You’ve had my attention since the first time I laid eyes on you, but you’re losing my respect.”
“You mean you actually feel something? I didn’t think El Diablo could.”
I met her eyes.
“Actually,” she stated, raising her head higher. “The truth is, I came to this church because I thought it’d be the one place you wouldn’t have the audacity to walk into. I should have known better, you don’t respect the sanctity of anything. I’m surprised you didn’t burst into flames the second you stepped past the threshold of God’s kingdom. This is the Lord’s house. The Devil isn’t welcome here.”
“I’d follow you anywhere. From Hell to Heaven, to kingdom fucking come so you should have thought about that before you ran away like a scared little girl. If you don’t like what you heard and saw tonight, then it’s best you stop asking questions about your husband’s dealings. It’s not personal, Sienna, it’s business. But rest assured wife, the things you didn’t mind your own fucking business on this evening are mild in comparison to what an enemy of mine or your fathers would do to you at any given point.”
She winced, knowing I was right. I could see it in her eyes.
“I could tell you stories that would truly make you hate me. Although, what’s more disconcerting to me is that you’re mourning a man who was manhandling you up against a balcony rail, when you can’t even fuck your own husband.”
She glared at me. “She was pregnant with a baby. A baby!”
“No fucking shit, Sienna. When he became a man, it’d be too late. I don’t protect you by being fucking nice to anyone. Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. You see an innocent pregnant woman, I see revenge written all over her. You’ve said it yourself, your life is valued more than mine and I don’t give a flying fuck whose blood is on my hands, or whose soul I have to take on. I’m forever enslaved by demons. Through the flames, I’m going to make damn sure you live until you’re old enough to walk through the gates of Heaven. We both know, I won’t be there. I’ll be rotting in Hell for all eternity, because I kept you and my family safe. But in this world,” I affirmed, sternly pointing at her. “You’re my angel and I’ll crucify anyone who thinks it’s your time to fall.”
“It doesn’t matter how you try to spin this, I don’t want to be the reason innocent people have to die. It blows my mind you think I’d be okay with what you did tonight, when you know I was supposed to die in a car bombing. I was eight-years-old! An innocent child! And I haven’t sought retaliation for the men who took my mother away from me!”
“You didn’t have to, you ungrateful fucking brat! Your father did it for you!”
“Of course he did! Because he’s just like you! A fucking criminal who murders innocent people in cold blood and justifies his sins by blaming his actions on preconceived notions from the men who are exactly like him! Call a spade a spade, Cruz! It’s all fucking bullshit! You kill in the name of family because you get off on the power! The control! Bow down to me or else! In the name of the father and of the son, take responsibility for once in your life! If you had, then your sister wouldn’t have been taken from under your thumb!”