Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 94076 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 470(@200wpm)___ 376(@250wpm)___ 314(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94076 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 470(@200wpm)___ 376(@250wpm)___ 314(@300wpm)
I played right into his hands.
I turn to Viktor. “Why did you go along with this for so long?”
“My inside man was becoming unreliable,” Viktor says. “So when I heard you were going to work there, I told him I was sending in someone to watch him. Let him think you were a spy for me so he would step back into line.”
“You told your insider I was your spy?” That would make them wary of me. I think back over the last couple of weeks to see if I can remember who was standoffish toward me. Apart from Annika, no one comes to mind.
“It successfully brought him back into line,” Viktor says.
I drag in a rough breath.
I kept playing right into their hands.
“What happens now?” I ask, trying to keep my tone even.
But Viktor’s cold, harsh voice turns my veins to ice. “Now, it’s time I receive my goods.”
CHAPTER 59
Lars
I push my Harley harder than I’ve ever pushed her. I tear through the darkness toward the Moretti estate, my heart beating like a war drum against my ribs. My nerves of steel are buckling beneath the emotion ripping at my insides.
Love. I’ve fought against it my whole life. Because I know it is more powerful and more destructive than anything else in this world. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it. From fucking randoms, to indulging in two, three, four at a time.
But life has changed. And it was her that changed it.
Ella.
I know without a doubt I am in love with her.
I don’t give a fuck that she lied.
I know the worlds we live in.
Mafia. MC. You do what you gotta do to survive.
It’s not like she had a choice. She was forced into a corner by her psychopathic, sniveling, crybaby of a brother.
And I’m going to rain down fire and brimstone on his head if he has harmed her.
I grip the handlebars tighter and don’t allow those thoughts to linger in my head. Because a world without Ella is a world I don’t want to be in.
When I arrive at the Moretti estate, a guard stops me at the security gate.
“Tell that piece of shit to come and face me,” I demand.
Before the guard can reply, his phone rings. He puts it on speaker.
“Lars Andersson, I take it?” the voice on the other end says. It’s Luca Moretti, and he sounds like he’s having fun. “Your reputation precedes you. Apparently, you’re some hot shot enforcer I should be afraid of.”
“Why don’t you open these gates and find out.”
He thinks for a moment and then chuckles. “I think this is going to be fun.”
A loud buzz breaks into the predawn light and the gates start to open.
Revving my bike, I pull away from the guard post and roar up the long driveway to the front door of the mansion.
Bounding up the front steps, I come to an abrupt halt when the door opens a crack, and I see Ella’s beautiful face.
Her eyes are red and her cheeks are tearstained.
“Baby…”
“Lars, you shouldn’t have come,” she says softly.
I move toward the door, but before I reach it, a man in a suit that is slightly too tight steps in front of Ella.
“Not so quick, buddy,” he says with a smug smile. He makes a show of tugging on the end of his shirt sleeves. Making me wait. Showing me who’s boss.
“I’m guessing you’re Luca,” I say.
He grins and it’s like looking into the face of a rattlesnake.
“I have to say, I am impressed, Mr. Andersson. What you’re doing takes balls.”
“And what you’re doing is fucking bad for your health. Let Ella go.”
His smile vanishes and his thin, cruel lips curl up in a snarl. “I have twenty crosshairs pointed at you right now.”
“And I have an entire army of bikers itching to wipe the smug smile off your ugly face. If I die, they will burn this house and everything you have to the fucking ground.”
“Then I suggest you walk away while you still can.”
“Not without Ella.”
“Then we are at an impasse.” The obnoxious fuck grins at me and my hand itches to unload my gun into his face.
But I don’t know what is on the other side of this door. I imagine it’s a lot of firepower and I can’t risk Ella getting caught up in it.
Luca looks at Ella with amusement tugging at his lips. “Get rid of him.”
And the coward steps away from the door so I can’t see him.
I hear Ella hitch a breath. Our eyes connect, and I see the fear in them.
“Ella, you can come with me right now.”
She shakes her head. “Viktor and his men are here. They have Lucretia.”
She steps away from the door, and I use the business end of my gun to push it open wider so I can see what is on the other side. Viktor is standing only a yard away, one hand holding Lucretia’s hair, the other pointing a gun at her side.