Page 1 of Danica's Revenge

Chapter one

Blindsided

Ihavenoideawhere I am.All I know is I have to find Danica.

I can’t see a thing, it’s dark around me.

My head feels fuzzy, dazed.

Pain floods through my bruised body, pulling me into the present.My face is sticky, cold—the familiar feeling of drying blood on my skin.I try to wipe my cheek but my arm won’t obey commands.I try again before I realize I can’t move at all.Ropes.Rough ropes cutting into my wrists.Of course.

But I can’t give up.I have to get to Danica before they do.It might already be too late…

“Untie me, assholes!”I demand, my voice failing to convey the authority I intended.

No response.

“You’re going to regret this.”

My threat falls on deaf ears.

I rock back and forth, trying to tip the metal chair, but it’s no use—it appears to be bolted to the floor.Fuckers.

I struggle for a few minutes more before my broken body forces me to accept the limitations of my situation.

How did this even happen?I still can’t piece it all together.

I remember sending Danica away.I remember picking up my coffee… Suddenly a huge commotion outside my study.Gunshots.So many gunshots.I'd jumped up, pulling out my weapon, ready to destroy whoever dared invade my home.But my movements had been slow, fuzzy.Too slow.There had been so many of them.I can’t remember how many now.I'd fumbled too long.The masked intruders had pinned me to the floor before I could fire a single shot.In vain, I'd tried to protect my face as they kicked the living shit out of me.

The last thing I remember was one of them grabbing my hair, pulling my bloody face off the floor.His Italian had been flawless.Native.“Curse you and your whole family, Don Fera.”He'd spat in my eye before smashing my face into the floor…

It had all gone dark after that.

They should never have even gotten as far as my study.That’d never happened before.Not in all the decades the Fera family had lived on that property.There was so much security.So many guards.The dogs.The secret access codes.

How did they get in?

The answer is obvious but it’s not one I want to accept.There is no way into the fortress that is the Fera house without insider access.Even then, it would be near impossible to get past the other guards.

Someone in my inner circle has betrayed me.I sincerely hope my suspicions are wrong.But if I’m right, my Queen is in even more danger than I thought.

I pull on the ropes with all my might, desperate for freedom.

I need to get to her… I need to protect Danica.

My beautiful Queen.I wish my last words to her hadn't been so cruel.She didn’t deserve it.She doesn’t deserve any of this.

What I wouldn’t give to be home in her arms, wrapped around her petite frame, face buried in those large breasts I loved to suck on.She would take her black-rimmed reading glasses off, the ones that made her look like a high school teacher, push her shoulder-length, straight-cut dark hair behind her ears, and kiss my forehead like she’d done a million times before.She would tell me it’s all okay, that we’re safe.

But we aren’t safe.

We aren’t safe at all.

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Chapter two

Carnage

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