Page 39 of The Merciless King

CHAPTER TEN

BRAXTON

I’m half across the sidewalk when Gianna’s car pulls away and my phone is at my ear.

Holy hell. It worked.

She thinks I’m making plans to fly out of the country and joining her for dinner in the hopes that her father will help with my little four-hundred-million-dollar problem in Europe.

“Connor Barrett.”

“I’m in,” I say, walking through the lobby of the hotel.

“Already?”

I grin. “What can I say? Tell Mack he can keep his money.” I laugh. “But I still need your help.”

“Braxton, I told you—”

“I know, I know. But we need to set up an entire sex trafficking operation in twelve hours.”

Silence.

“Jesus Christ, you aren’t joking.” Connor groans. “Meet us at the King’s headquarters in an hour. Lilly, cancel my meetings!”

I figure that’s his PA.

The billionaire hangs up and I walk into the elevator with my heart pounding. This is exhilarating. I’m extremely happy with the progress I’ve made and my hope in getting Amy home is becoming a real possibility.

Even if it is early days.

Gianna is a surprise.

I’m not sure what’s driving her, even if I want Decker to think it’s my smooth moves. Truth is, fucking the mafia princess was far more pleasurable than I anticipated.

I’m playing a character, but I enjoyed every second of it.

Walking up beside her, even though I’d only had a small amount of sleep, caught me off guard. I had to remind myself where I was and why.

Then when I felt the warm body wriggle next to me, I responded in a way that I probably shouldn’t have given she is a pawn in my game. I tugged her against me and nestled my face into her hair.

She smelled of sex...and me.

Even now, as I open the door to my hotel suite, after having her hand on my cock just minutes earlier, I am hard and eager to be back inside her.

Convince my father you love me, and he might very well let you do anything you please.

We both agreed to tell her father, the head of the Baldassare mafia, that Gianna and I had been seeing each other for a few weeks. That now things were getting serious.

I can go along with that.

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