Fearless: Mob Boss Book Two (Volume 2) Read Online Free Page A

far.”
    “Really?” Luca had asked. “How far would you go to protect the ones you love?”
    The question was still ringing in her ears months later. She wanted to believe she would walk the line more carefully than Nico, that if push came to shove, she would find away around bloodshed. But the truth is, she didn’t know the answer.
    Now she could almost feel Nico out there, pulling her in like he had since the first moment he’d captured her with his amber eyes.
    She pulled off the main road and headed for Bass Harbor, a tiny town set in a sheltered cove dotted with boats. She parked in tiny lot overlooking the harbor, grabbed her bag out of the back seat, and headed away from the busy waterfront.
    She continued along the water, heading toward the small beach houses and cottages that belonged to the people who lived there full time. She almost held her breath waiting for the dock to come into sight. Would it still be there? Had she imagined it all?
    But no. A few minutes later, she saw the small platform that jutted out into the water. The boat wasn’t there, and she sat down on the dock, letting her legs dangle over the water, hoping she wouldn’t have to wait until morning. It was dusk, the sun setting over land somewhere beyond her shoulders. She could have called Nico. He’d told her as much when she’d seen him after her father’s funeral.
    If you need anything—anything at all—I’ll be there.
    She hadn’t really thought she’d need him, not the way he meant. But still she’d kept his number, his name in her phone a tether to something she wasn’t quite ready to let go.
    The temperature dropped as the sun sunk lower in the sky, and she rubbed her arms, hoping she wouldn’t have to wait until morning. A half hour later, she was about ready to walk into town and look for a cheap hotel when the sound of a boat motor got her attention. She followed the sound out over the water with her eyes, not daring to hope it was the right boat until it came into view. Or more accurately, until it’s driver came into view.
    She stood up and walked to the end of the dock as the boat coasted to a stop. The driver climbed out of the boat.
    “Can’t take you,” he said as he tied the ropes to the steel cleats on the dock.
    “You have to,” she said. “I can’t find my way back without you.”
    “Can’t,” he said, still not looking at her. “Don’t work for you.”
    She swallowed hard, trying to think of the best way to make her case. “He… he needs my help.”
    It wasn’t a gripping argument, but she thought it might just be the truth.
    Ed looked up at her, his face creased with too many early mornings, too much salt and wind. He stood, staring at her silently for a long minute before speaking.
    “I imagine you might be right about that.”
    “So you’ll take me?” she asked.
    He nodded. “Might mean my job, but I’d rather lose it than leave him out there like he is.” He looked up at the sky. “Better get in, though. It’ll be dark soon.”

5
    Nico watched the sky darken from the deck. It was soothing watching the water change from deep green to gray, then black as the light disappeared from the sky, and he let his mind drift to the two days he’d spent on the island with Angel. The waves crashing against the rocks, the rain battering the windows while he made love to her. While he made her his, exploring every curve and crevice of the body that had been made for him.
    It was an exquisite kind of torture, but he must have been a masochist, because he didn’t want it to end. Didn’t want to let her go, even in his memory. Some days she seemed so close he could hear her say his name, breathless, the way she did right before she came. Other times he woke from the depths of sleep with her voice in his ear.
    I love you, Nico.
    The way she’d said it during the hours when they had been in a universe of their own making, the world dark and sleeping.
    But as unbearable as the memories sometimes