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Igor’s hacker is behind the desk. He’s nose deep in something so he doesn’t even notice me stealthyentering the room. I’m behind him before he can even look up, hitting him right in the side of the chin with the brass knuckles that are lining my non-dominant hand. That knocks him clean out, and then I’m twisting his neck until that satisfying crack hits my ears, and his body goes completely limp.

Fun fact: if you snap someone’s neck, knock them out first so there’s no screaming while their spinal cord is seizing up. It’s not instant.Doc taught me that one.

Back in the hallway heading to the next door, I hear the tell-tale sign of a slide to a gun and then a gun firing.

Right as the gun goes off, another one of Igor’s men comes barreling out of the last door at the end of the hall. I have my Glock out, aimed right between his eyes. I fire and he’s on the ground, bleeding out—creating a fucking mess. And goddamn, it pisses me off killing like this. All these organs really are going to fucking waste.

I step into the last door but stop when I see Mar slowly turning to face me. Thank fuck it wasn’t her behind the receiving bullet. Blood is splattered all over her, and she looks like she’s seen a ghost.

Goddammit! I knew I shouldn’t have let her do this.

“He’s trafficking women and children,” is all she gets out before collapsing to her knees.

1. Mob Ties - Drake

Chapter 24

Marcello

Ineed my fix of Ellie after the fucking night we’ve had. Igor and his pile of burning shit had to be taken care of before more people were alerted that the Russian head had been killed.

He had a shipment of women and children coming through my fucking airport, and no one had a fucking clue. The port director is getting a visit from Vin and me in the near future, seeing as it’s my pocket he’s in.

The skin trade is the hard line for me and the syndicate we run. Whatever else people want to dabble in—as long as I’m getting a cut—I could care less; no one does skin in my city. Organs are different, and they’re coming out of shitty-ass people that don’t need them anyways.

The muscles lining my jaw are sore as hell from being constantly clenched for hours. Mar had been so upset about the girls earlier that we had to takeher to the airstrip to ensure they were okay. She shot the guy in the back of the plane with them point blank, no questions asked. Most of the girls looked thankful, but it also scared the fuck out of the few younger ones.

She is handling the girls’ care, getting them to safety, and having Haisley look over them. She has Noah on a manhunt to gather any information we can to figure out how or why they were targeted. Our main goal is to get them back to their families—if they even have families—and make sure said families didn’t sell them in the first place.

Finally walking out to my car from Sin’s, I see a bag on my passenger seat. I had one of my assistants, Beth, run out and pick some underwear out for Ellie. I won’t have myRagazza Dolcewithout any underwear to dirty up for me. I made sure Beth knew to get daily ones that would be comfortable and practical.

I am watching Ellie’s nightly skincare routine through my special cameras on the app on my phone. She’s been taking sleeping pills here and there, and tonight, she just so happens to pop one of those—boy, am I going to have my fun tonight.

1Right when she turned eighteen, she came into Sin’s to become a member. She had filled out the necessary form to join, was healthy, and clean. The perk of being part owner at the time… I had fullaccess to all of that information, including the kink quiz we make everyone fill out to help new members understand things about themselves they would never know otherwise.

The one that caught my eye on Ellie’s was Somnophilia. She was interested in giving up full control but said that she could never do it when awake. That’s exactly where I came in.Well, not until later, when she finally moved out of her dad’s place.

The last couple of months have been the time of my life. It brings me too much joy knowing I’m giving myRagazza Dolceexactly what she craves, fulfilling her darkest fantasies that not even her previous partners knew about.

By the time I’m out of my daydream, I’m parking in my normal spot at her apartment and grabbing the bag from my passenger seat.

Thankfully, Blair is out somewhere, and Noah is on watch again. He better pay more attention this time,little fucker. His ass is lucky he’s so good at what he does.

She’s been out like a light for about an hour, but I still creep the door open, check that she’s still asleep before entering her room, and slide in against her wall. I set the bag containing all her new underwear on her desk before turning around to face my most prized possession.

Ellie Dixon.

I’m getting my fix.

Thank fuck she moved out of her Dad’s… it was becoming too much not being able to have her at all. NowI have easy access to her. I need to find out why she’s taking sleeping medicine, but right now, I don’t question it because those little sleeping pills are working in my favor.

I’m at the end of her bed, standing over her motionless body. I pull the blankets off of her, causing my breath to hitch; she’s completely bare. The air in my lungs sinks to the bottom like cement. Her body will always amaze me. I just watched her climb into her bed completely naked, but seeing her in person is otherworldly.

I run my hands up her legs, starting at her inner ankles and stopping right where her thighs meet. She’s lying on her back, almost like she knew to be ready for me. I grip the side of her juicy hips and ass that are spilling out from the back, and she lets out a little hum. The hips on her need to be outlawed. Her cunty-ass mother used to bitch at her about her body and weight constantly, and it would send burning white hot rage through me. Any mother who can talk to or about their child like that deserves to be punished. Karma paid her mother a visit, thankfully.

I keep running my hands up and down her milky thighs, appreciating the tattoos she has scattered over her legs. They look so fucking good when she has a pair of her signature fish nets on.

Fuck, my cock is pulsing.

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