Page 76 of Unlocked Desire: Vol One

“Vance, what the hell are you doing here? I’m surprised you left Clarissa,” Enzo says, putting his lighter back on the nightstand.

“Ciaran and Finn called. We’ve got Ferreri. We thought you’d like the honor, but if you don’t…”

“You have my father? Where?”

Ciaran and Enzo look at each other.

“Anyone gonna tell me what’s going on?” Vance asks, looking between the two men.

“Enzo’s stuck his pen in Ferreri’s daughter’s ink well.” Ciaran chuckles.

“What the fuck, Enzo? You were supposed to use her as collateral, not fuck her,” Vance says. His eyes are cold. He looks every bit a killer as the others.

But their looks aren’t what wound me. Vance’s words do. You were supposed to use her as collateral, not fuck her.

Chapter 10

ENZO

She’s upset. That fucker had to open his mouth and put that damn sad look on Reese’s face. I’m going to punch Vance in the face until all that’s left of him is blood and brains.

“Get out.” I grab Reese as she goes to move. My cock is still on display, giving my two asshole friends more than an eyeful. “Not you.”

Vance gets the gist right away, but Ciaran, the fuckin’ buffoon, stands there rubbing his lip back and forth against those stupid fangs. “Get out, Ciaran, before I take out my gun and blow your brains against the wall.”

“I think I’d like to stay, just to see you try.” Ciaran chuckles.

I tug Reese to the dresser, pull out my gun, and point it directly at Ciaran. “Get the fuck out.”

“You wouldn’t dare.”

“Did you see what happened to Luc when he tried to get between me and something I wanted?”

“Luc”—Ciaran walks over to me and presses his forehead against the barrel of the gun—“wasn’t there with you during the worst of it.”

The crazy motherfucker. “Get the fuck out, Ciaran. This is your last warning.”

“I’ll leave ’cause I want to, not because your ass told me to.”

“I don’t care. Get the fuck out.”

Ciaran laughs before turning to Reese. “I’m not sure what you’ve done to him, but he would have shot the brains out of his oldest friend to be alone with you. Don’t fuck him up. Too many have already been there and done that. Don’t break him.”

Ciaran’s words have more truth than Reese knows, but I ignore him and turn to her. I need her to understand that what Vance said wasn’t true. She was never part of a plan.

The door closes behind Ciaran.

As I go to hug Reese, she flinches. “You wound me, Principessa.”

“Not as much as you’ve wounded me.”

“I didn’t know who you were that night at the club. You were the sexiest thing I’d ever seen, and I wanted you. I craved you without even knowing you.”

“So what would’ve happened if you had? Would you have slit my throat instead of fuckin’ me?”

“No, Reese. My plan was never to kill you.”

“What was it, then? Fuck me, make me fall in love with you, and then what? Ruin me by ripping it all away from me?”