The Mafia's Debt Bride

ay when she was a highschooler and even a freshman all through grad in co

a cold looking man with a scar that ran through his c

erving the brooding man and wanting to see if he had a dagger underneath his blackne

" his tongue ticked against his teeth.

reathed in, allowing it to wash over the overwhelm

Phoenix slightly widened her eyes

pid girls get killed in those real crime se

the button of his sleeves. His eyes never lea

r palms rubbed a little too fast against one another. The man in

slightly echoed through th

not comprehend what he had said. "But..." her lips closed shut whe

he already knew it was impossible to pay off her brother's debt in a month. S

*

think they

own iris was sucked back. For a while, she'd been sitting

ad from side to side, observing the halls of Santa Barbara's Local Hospital like she'd n

iques and guidance during this intense and transformat

enior year in high school with Phoenix moving in from

x academically and after the forced proximity of tutoring, the

ff. "I know that of course, I'm just asking if Aubre

ubrey." Pho

snapped right at the high p

bout Au

ssed casually in her knitted vintage dress and black boot

he chatte

ushing to hang her coat and scrabble something on the

needed

iced mojito under the scorching sun

iends; Charlie Ninn

wound me." Phoenix, already knowing what it was about, hummed a

e exams

red. "Even though we were in coll

ck haired friend who watched Aubrey i

"Charlie, I understa

d her black coffee on the table. "Keep me out of this oka

seemed to be dull with Charlie and Aubrey. They made

the straw to her mouth. Her lips closed around it

opped the coffee on the table. "What

ve taken our relationship to the next

t level?" Charlie sat

riends, she quickly added. "No sex. I promise you guys. Seriously, no

al hospital and she'd been working for five years. Time to time

to find her friends staring at her,

bout the Salvadors and the brooding choice she had to ma

he forensics exams are in a week and it feel

ed. "It's Noa

, she had to keep silent for their well-being. Noah said the Salvadors were danger

y. "Whatever Charlie. What's u

t of an Australian accent. "More like t

nd Charlie as she was not one to spea

ds. "I mean.." her shoulders relaxed as she let out her

s took to underneath her chin, supporti

work up her face, wanting to hear from her friend. "I mean...i

about something else huh?" Her head cr

arlie off. Her friends watched as she stood from the chair

nic. And in an attempt to figure out what happened, Phoenix gave a fake

*

Her hastening feet drawing awfully close to these bla

ne wrenching sound of the thunder, Phoenix shook

age, fru

owards the dark manor. And as soon as she found her way

efreshing day." He said, grinning

Noah's judgment that you passed upon him. Even then, you went too far as you almost killed hi

s authority and actions questioned. Not in the thirty thr

him. "Careful" He says to Phoenix with a darkening gaze. "

ak. He didn't care, all he wanted was all he was going to get.

ne around me alone. If I am to marry your son, surely we can come to some sort of agreement." She was planning, of course, that her

It wasn't a normal smile, Phoenix thought. It was a smile for kil

ed in her own sweat in her bed. She wouldn't even mind if the sweat was in her book and tore the book, she really wouldn't mind. But

is son would be spoiled, entitled, unkind and one of those guys she'd sworn she

day, she sat in her room with gray walls that filled her consciousness with

around her would be really suffering. Deep down, a part of her blamed Noah. She