Claim Me: A Dark Russian Mafia Romance, page 32
“Does that mean I should plan another wedding?”
He’d moved in front of me, his grin one that had always driven me crazy. “Not so fast.”
“Just let me know. I’ll give you a special deal on renting Ecstasy.”
“Nope. If we do, it’ll be in Genesis.”
“Always the competitor.”
“You bet, brother.”
Everyone from the family had arrived to pay their respects to Charlie and to welcome Marissa into our lives. Death had always seemed so finite to me, a dark place in my mind where there was little but an ending. It was strangely funny to me that after Marissa had come into my life, everything seemed different. Charlie’s death wasn’t an ending as much as it was an opportunity to continue his memory.
Maybe as I’d gotten older, I’d become too philosophical. Whatever the case, the peace I’d felt in the last few days was a welcome respite. I headed toward her, taking my time. When I was directly behind, she tensed and tipped her head over her shoulder.
“I’m so glad you’re here,” she said.
I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her close and signing my response. “I will always be with you.”
“I’m glad. Charlie loved you like a brother. That much I can feel right now. I hope Marengo thrives for generations to come.”
Very slowly, I pulled her around to face me. “With you at the helm, I have no doubt it will.”
“So you’re allowing me to take control?” Her expression was full of mischief.
“Not a chance.”
As our eyes connected, she pressed her hand against my chest. “I’m glad. I wouldn’t want our life any other way.” She glanced over her shoulder at the ocean. “This was his favorite place in the world. He told me this was the only location in the world where he’d found his peace. I understand why. It’s time to set him free.”
“I know, baby. I’ll be right here. There is no place I’d rather be than by your side.”
As I’d done before, I gave her space, guiding the others around her in a semi-circle. Her words of love and adoration to her brother were heartfelt, leaving almost no one without tears in their eyes.
Just as she opened the lid and began to scatter Charlie’s ashes toward the sea that he’d loved so much, a rainbow appeared, the vivid colors crisscrossing the sky.
A sign of hope.
One of love and peace.
And one of family.
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When we last spoke, Zoe Thibodeaux was a schoolgirl with a crush. But now the daughter of the most powerful mafia boss in New Orleans is all grown up… and in desperate need of my belt across her bare ass before I grip her hair in my fist and teach her what it means to be mine.
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Catherine’s father conspired to have my father killed, and that debt to the Benedetti family must be settled. Just as he took something from me, I will take something from him.
His daughter.
She will be mine to punish and ravage, but when she suffers it will not be for his sins.
It will be for my pleasure.
She will beg, but it will be for me to claim her in the most shameful ways imaginable.
She will scream, but it will be because she doesn’t think she can bear another climax.
But when she surrenders at last, it will not be to her captor.
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Alexandra is a senator’s daughter, used to mingling in the company of the rich and powerful, but tonight she will learn that there are men who play by different rules.
Men like me.
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But that can wait. Tonight I’m going to wring one ruthless climax after another from her quivering body with her bottom burning from my belt and her throat sore from screaming.
She will know she is mine before she even knows she is my bride.
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Savage Prince
Gillian’s father may be a powerful Irish mob boss, but he owes a blood debt to my family, and when I came to collect I didn’t ask permission before taking his daughter as payment.
It was not up to him… or to her.
I will make her my bride, but I am not the kind of man who will wait until our wedding night to bare her and claim what belongs to me. She will walk down the aisle wet, well-used, and sore.
Her dress will hide the marks from my belt that taught her the consequences of disobeying her husband, but nothing will hide her blushes as her arousal drips down her thighs with each step.
By the time she says her vows she will already be mine.
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Caroline Hargrove thinks she is mine because her father owed me a debt, but that isn’t why she is sitting in my car beside me with her bottom sore inside and out. She’s wet, well-used, and coming with me whether she likes it or not because I decided I want her, and I take what I want.
As a senator’s daughter, she probably thought no man would dare lay a hand on her, let alone spank her thoroughly and then claim her beautiful body in the most shameful ways possible.
She was wrong. Very, very wrong. She’s going to be mastered, and I won’t be gentle about it.
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Francesca Alessandro was just meant to be collateral, held captive as a warning to her father, but then she tried to fight me. She ended up sore and soaked as I taught her a lesson with my belt and then screaming with every savage climax as I taught her to obey in a much more shameful way.
