Dirty Promises by J A Low EPUB & PDF

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• Authors: J A Low
• Language: English
• Genre: Billionaire Romance
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Luisa
The heat made the blood smell worse, like you could sense it thickening in
the air. It brought out the sharp tang of copper, mixed with heavy dust.
Blood these days reminded me of my mother. Not that she wasn’t alive and
relatively well, living with my father in an assisted living center in the quiet
suburbs of San Diego. She was fine. She was safe. But I guess it made me
aware of how disappointed she would be in me. In the person I had become.
The smell of blood did nothing to me anymore. It didn’t make me sick. It
didn’t make me feel anything. I was used to something I never thought I’d get
used to.

And more than that, sometimes I liked the smell. Sometimes it meant an
enemy was finished and we had lived to survive another day at the top. It was
this constant climb and a never-ending struggle to keep our footing, and
blood, blood meant victory. Security.
Power.

But I never wanted her to see me now, like this.
The wife of a drug king. The queen of corruption.
She knew all of this, of course. Knew what I did to survive and provide a
good life for her, my father, myself. She knew that I fell in love.
But I’m not sure if she knows that I am falling out of love. That I didn’t
realize the cost of trying to keep it. She didn’t know that I had become a
monster, that the ways of this life — my new life — were slowly sinking into
my soul and turning it putrid and black.

Everything costs something now. In the past, when I was just a lowly
waitress in Cabo San Lucas, working for a slimeball boss, I had to pay for the
right to make money by putting up with his advances. When I married
Salvador Reyes, the most powerful madman in the country, I paid for that
choice with my virginity, my dignity, and nearly my life. Now, in order to sit
on the throne of the country, on top of money and drugs and guns and blood
that paved my way, the cost was my soul.
Sometimes I thought it was the only thing I had left.

The screams in the distance died off. Funny, I actually hadn’t noticed them
until they stopped. The smell of blood still hung in the air, like invisible
smoke that would eventually seep its way into your skin.
I grasped my bottle of wine tightly, as if it were filled with precious gems,
and got off the bench at the koi pond. This used to be where Javier and I
would sometimes talk, when he was feeling particularly romantic or even
philosophical. He hadn’t been in any of those moods lately. It was like I
barely existed.

Well, there were some things. But I didn’t want to think about those, even
though I knew where he was going after the torture was over and the last drop
of blood was spilled.

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