The Vendetta (The Vigilantes) by Dr. Rebecca Sharp

Author:Dr. Rebecca Sharp [Sharp, Dr. Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Harmon

In the last week, sleep had become a friend I no longer knew. Thinking. Wondering. Wanting. There were a million reasons that kept me restless, but last night… last night had made sleep an enemy.

The feel of her body pressed against mine. The soft warmth of her breath reached through the fabric of my shirt. It had been like lying behind enemy lines, waiting for one slight move or one brief touch to expose my weakness—the way I wanted her—and let it consume me.

My brother had told me to get close. What fucking bullshit. To see her stretched over my bike, vulnerable and begging for release as her tight cunt gripped my fingers… yeah, I hadn’t gotten close. I’d gotten intimate.

And fuck me for not knowing the difference until it was too late.

The hours ticked away as I tilled through what I’d learned about her mother’s death, the skeleton story now saturated with facts. Murdered. It was an unexpected development. Of course, my first thought went to Magnus—that he murdered Sandrine, but why? He hadn’t been in their lives at all, and if her assumption was correct—that he’d been funneling money to support them—why kill her mother now? Did Sandrine know who he was? What he did? Was she threatening to expose him? Had she been blackmailing him all these years?

No. She never would’ve lived this long if she’d resorted to blackmail.

But the alternative… that Sandrine was in danger from one of Magnus’s enemies? I hated to admit it was equally as likely. Criminals were as equal a target of other criminals as they were of law enforcement, especially the circles Magnus ran in. High-stakes investment in criminal enterprises and operations… underground wars were fought to win those deals by men with no moral compass. Killing Sandrine to get to Magnus was cheap collateral to win a business deal worth billions.

Regardless of the scenario, Daria’s outcome was the same. She was a weakness—something his enemies or competition would exploit.

Just like I was attempting to do. No—just like I should’ve been.

But I wasn’t because I was too close.

Fuck. Air hissed through my lips as pain twisted in my chest.

I hadn’t… slept… with a woman in so long. Sex was different. Sex could be… exactly what she said. Physical. A simple hunger to be sated. But this… she’d asked me to stay, and God help me, I never wanted to leave.

One night. One bike ride. One woman. And my life was changed.

I felt it just as surely as I felt my bike claw across the length of the bridge. Powerful. As surely as I felt her tears water my chest. Emotional. And as surely as I felt her body release like I’d touched heaven with my fingertips. Undeniable.

I cared about her. I cared about what happened to her. I cared about protecting her. From her father’s enemies. From her father. From me.

I fucking cared about Daria Sinclair, and there was no amount of training… no amount of preparation… no amount of knowledge that could’ve prepared me for the unconventional war of caring for your target.

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