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“I won’t kill you. But you must die.”

My brain was still too fuzzy to make sense of it.

“You can live if you let Talia die. I’ll tell everyone the job is done. They won’t doubt me. I’m the fucking Grim Reaper. But you’ll have to go into hiding. Leave everything behind. Your family. Your name.”

I sat up slowly. “You’ll let me run?”

“I never said I’d let you run from me.” He leaned close and kissed me harshly, completely catching me by surprise. When he pulled back, he searched my face.

I nodded, even though he hadn’t asked. “We can run together. You aren’t free here. We both have never truly been free. Maybe together we can finally discover what true freedom tastes like.”

“The only taste I want now is your pussy.”

We’d packed everything that same day and Killer had declared me dead to his client. I didn’t exist anymore.

He bought a yacht from his savings, blood money all of it, but as a mafia princess, I’d grown up surrounded by dirty riches. The next day, we set out in our boat. I wrote a letter to my sister Cara, telling her I was safe but couldn’t return to New York and the mafia. One day, I’d see her again. She had found happiness with Growl, and now it was my turn to find my own.

Killer got new IDs for us, new names we’d come up with on a late night with too much wine and even more sex. Nova and Nero. A new beginning and a man who burnt down a city. Both names oddly fitting for us. Our last name was the result of Killer’s insistence that I needed to start drinking vodka.

As I stared down at Killer now, straddling his hips, feeling his hard cock digging insistently against my pussy, I couldn’t help but grin. “Nova and Nero Armani. It can’t get any more extra than that. We’ll never make important decisions with vodka again.”

Killer nudged up his Armani sunglasses with a smirk, letting me see the hunger in his eyes. Those glasses were our own personal inside joke and they still cracked me up after all this time. Killer shoved my bikini bottom aside and slipped a finger between my folds then pushed the digit into his mouth. “Never thought my wife would taste so sweet.”

I leaned down. “I’m only your wife on paper. We never got married officially.”

“Who gives a fuck about official. We’re the rulers of our fucking lives. No one else. You are mine. End of story.”

Killer freed his cock from his swim shorts and plunged into me with a vicious upwards thrust. I gasped, throwing my head back with a smile. The sun warmed my skin. The breeze tugged at my hair. The ocean whooshed in the background. I felt free. For the first time in my life, I tasted freedom.

Killer’s hands on my hips tightened until I looked at him again. My smile widened. I rotated my hips. We were in the middle of the ocean. Without a destination. Adrift but not lost. We were each other’s home.

I was reborn. We were both reborn. Nova and Nero Armani. Finally free.

THE END

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Lylah James uses all her spare time to write. If she is not studying, sleeping, writing or working—she can be found with her nose buried in a good romance book, preferably with a hot alpha male. Writing is her passion. The voices in her head won’t stop, and she believes they deserve to be heard and read. Lylah James writes about drool worthy and total alpha males and strong and sweet heroines. She makes her readers cry—sob their eyes out, swoon, curse, rage, and fall in love. Mostly known as the Queen of Cliffhangers and the #evilauthorwithablacksoul, she likes to break her readers’ hearts and then mend them.

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The Mafia and His Angel: Part Two

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