Page 1 of Brightness

Chapter One

VOID

It was only meant to be a job.

A simple transfer of packages from a shipping container to the buyers. But Nycto, my president, had to go and change the fucking plan on us.

Because one of the packages caught his eye.

And he wanted a taste.

Nycto threw everything in the air, sending our clubhouse into turmoil, while he made us fall in line with his new plan.

We never stray from the path.

We do our job.

We get paid.

That’s what Tampa Defiance does.

But Nycto got a hard-on, and in the process, put us all in the firing line. For what? A hot piece of ass.

Problem is, the fiery Cuban goddess we transported wasn’t going to go without a fight, or without her fucking little sister.

Thing is, the little sister isn’t so little.

Her name is Ivy.

Instantly, I knew she could be as poisonous to me as her namesake.

I don’t feel.

For anyone.

For anything.

They don’t call me Void for nothing, but Ivy sparked something in me. Curiosity at how someone like her could be such a pocket rocket and not have every man hanging off her arm.

The thing about Ivy—she’s smart.

And she’s super happy all the damn time.

The bitch wears you down.

I tried like fucking hell not to view her as a play toy. Not to think about all the ways in which I could ruin her. But every time she smiles at me with her damn pure innocence, it does something.

It wrecks me.

It burns me alive.

And I’m left reeling in her wake.

Ivy’s nothing but naive, virtuous in every way. I can’t thrust myself into her life, tarnishing the good in her with the depravity in me.

With all the shit that’s gone down the past couple of months since the sisters arrived at the club—Eva finding out Ivy’s here, them reuniting, the seller figuring out Nycto took them and then coming for his vengeance—it’s been one hell of a shitshow.

Though through it all, Nycto and Eva found their happiness together.

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