Cruel Elite - A Mafia Romance

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fucking chance. Actions

u're the one who came and fou

and to my chest

mo

instant, her arm is pinned above her he

t miss the way she leans t

s are hard

lose in a long time, b

s mine d

e. But you violated that truce. So I'm done keeping my distance. I'm going to be a part of your life again, Penny. But not in

est silence of he

ink. Don't

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he whispers in a tight, cho

wer is a singl

campaign of bullying against Haley was at its wors

" he said. "Tell

uck don't anymore. I shut that do

m he was

brother-in-arms, and Haley is his woman. That

why I

to stay in her

ced to intervene in

clicks her teeth in annoyance. Her br

uses her usual sassy bitc

ing? Based on the stupid grin he has been wearing and your perpetual fr

assert control o

e. I'm not one of the stupi

calling th

, mostly because I kn

y out of my life. Haley's part of my life." Her eyes

rushing her hands down the front of her jeans as tho

re spread and her arms are crossed, ma

istracted. I keep my

rumors about who you're with,

r pitched. The same way mothers have a telephone vo

thing together, but I didn't know

s you try to make up, Penny. Trying har

I think you care a lo

forest pressing in on all sides, making the di

separate from the rest of the univer

, it piss

this bitch and all it takes is one con

enny now is different

t to make

her mi

ke he

feel every time I see her swaying

een done unto me. It may not be the golden r

. About you especially." I lower my chin and move towards h

are wide, long lashes battin

she asks

s for her because she has a body that fits just right in your hands a

he thinks I stil

t know any

w she's abo

my voice barely above a whisper.

ace f

rs by ignoring you," I spit. "All the pain you've caused ot

g," she stammers. "Noah

I'll see you around. That's a p

oa

s still enough to mak

enough to c

as had

ime for me

E

tual fuck j

ye

eathed in my direction, and now he storms back into

still features in them from time to time no matt

he's younger in m

back when things

and he wears a smile, and it's always innocent.

ate attempt to clear it. No

to slouch against a tree, stop sucking in my stomach, an

see me

Noah's threat is to be taken seriously, he's going to do a lot

years, but I know what Noah and

body

oss them,

to bring trash bags, but she spent the afternoon getting a spray tan no

but I still catch myself looking for him as I pick my

ave gyrated their way off the blanket they laid out to the center of th