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Always out of my reach.
She was my best friend’s little sister, years too young for me, forbidden to me.
Women like her didn’t belong in my dark world.
She was the good girl I never should have touched.
I went where I shouldn’t of back then and lost track of the dangers that
lurked around us.
I had no business with her. Yet as I stared at her getting into her car all I could do was remember.
Remember when he first kissed me. Remember when he made all those promises to me.
All the memories flooded my mind as I drove away and I wished like hell they wouldn’t.
When I broke her heart, I made sure it was a clean break so she would hate me. I remembered it all and hated myself for what I had done.
I just hoped it was worth it.
I never got over her. My curse was loving her and my penance was to remember when we … wereus.
Staying away always felt like the wrong thing to me.
But it really was for the best.
I just had to remember that.
I remembered when we were us—my curse.
It feels like a dream my heart wants,
but the nightmare is far from over and I live in fear every day.
Chapter 1
Gio
* * *
Eight years ago …
“Gio if we get this, we’re smooth sailing. Dennis is the hook up, the real deal. The motherfucking king in my eyes with that kind of money,” Marshall rambled, bumping his own fists together and lowering to give the dashboard of his Harley a kiss.
He always did that when he got excited. He was even worse after a joint and there he was lighting up again as if he wasn’t fucking high enough as it was.
I leaned against the work top and watched him.
We were in my garage. He’d just arrived as planned. Get here for seven thirty and then we’d head out to a warehouse and try out for this new job we’d heard about on the underground.
A new job I’d heard about.
Dennis was offering up a hundred g’s to his new recruits. He wanted four guys. Guys who were fast, smooth, wild, fearless, and reckless—that was us to the bone. Two Philadelphia bad boys who were unstoppable. We were overqualified for the job, definitely exceeding the job specs Dennis required. Me with my links to the Chicago mafia and Marshal with his link to me.
And,why was Dennis recruiting?
Because four of his guys were gunned down last month in a raid by the feds when they found a warehouse filled with counterfeit money worth two million.
