Merciless Devil

MERCILESS DEVIL SONS OF VALENTINO, BOOK 2 KYLIE KENT For Assunta May every dark alley lead you to a Matteo of your own. xx CONTENTS Untitled Please Stalk Me Foreword 1. Savannah 2. Matteo 3. Savannah 4. Matteo 5. Savvy 6. Matteo 7. Savvy 8. Matteo 9. Savvy 10. Matteo 11. Savvy 12. Matteo 13. Savvy 14. Matteo 15. Savvy 16. Matteo 17. Savvy 18. Matteo 19. Savvy 20. Matteo 21. Savvy 22. Matteo 23. Savvy 24. Matteo 25. Savvy 26. Matteo 27. Savvy 28. Matteo 29. Savvy 30. Matteo Epilogue Epilogue Soulless Devil (Excerpt) Also by Kylie Kent Acknowledgments About Kylie Kent Copyright ©2023 by Kylie Kent Ebook ISBN: 978-1-922816-40-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-922816-55-9 Cover illustration by Sammi Bee Designs Editing services provided by Kat Pagan – https://www.facebook.com/PaganProofreading This book contains scenes of sexual acts, profanity, and violence. If any of these are triggers for you, you should consider skipping this read. All rights reserved. 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Join my readers group on Facebook Kylie’s Steam Room Facebook: @kyliekent2020 Instagram Follow: @author_kylie_kent_ Blurb Savannah Have you ever loved someone so much it physically hurts? That’s how much I love my best friend, Matteo Valentino. It’s also the reason I’ve done everything I can to make sure he’s firmly rooted in the friend zone. I’d rather keep him at a distance than ruin what we have by giving into the attraction constantly sparking between us. That is until I wake up next to him with no recollection of how I ended up in his bed. Matteo When you’re the prince of one of the five families of the New York mafia, nothing is off-limits. That is until the one thing you want is your best friend. Savannah St. James is everything light in my dark world. She’s strong, fierce, and more loyal than any made man I know. She’s also my best friend, and that makes her untouchable. However, when I wake up next to her in Vegas after a night out together, I’m not about to let her go as easily as she may think. She’ll find out just how merciless I am when it comes to keeping what I want. And what I want, what I’ve always wanted, is her. 1 SAVANNAH I have found the one whom my soul loves. — Song of Solomon 3:4 Some people spend their whole lives searching for their soul mate, their one true love. I found mine when I was only seven years old. I didn’t know it at the time of course; all I knew was that the boy who stuck to my side like a shadow was different. He wasn’t like the other kids our age and I thought he was just silly. He liked to make people laugh. As we got older, I discovered that there was a lot more to Matteo Valentino. A lot more than he showed most people. And so much more than the happy, carefree persona he presented to the world. That version was all an act, an act the man deserves a damned Oscar for, because he plays that role so damn well sometimes even I forget it’s fake. Until we’re alone, and the mask comes down. He never has to pretend with me, because no matter what, I will always have his back. We’re more than just best friends; we are soul mates. Although I think the only one who had fantasies of us growing old together, getting married, and having babies… was me. Matteo is not the settling down kind of guy. Even if he were, he’s not the kind of guy I want to settle down with. The life he leads… well, let’s just say I understand why my daddy tried to keep us apart when we were in grade school. It didn’t work, obviously. Matteo and I have always been inseparable. A lot of people have tried to come between us, but that boy is nothing if not loyal. I knew the extent of his loyalty when Johnny Valerie kissed me in the first grade. I tried to push him away but I wasn’t strong enough. Matteo came up and tackled him, and seconds later, Matteo’s older brother Theo was on top of Johnny too. The kid was left crying and bleeding on the ground. Without even a backwards glance, Matteo took my hand, walked me up to the corner store, and bought me a bag of candy. He sat down with me and said, “Don’t cry, Savvy. I’ll never ever let anyone hurt you. I promise.” I shake my head, clearing the thoughts of the past from my mind. Yes, I have found the one my soul loves, but it’s not someone who will ever be anything more than my best friend. Not that we haven’t ventured down a path of being more. We have. We were fifteen when we made a pact to lose our virginities to each other. It was a one-time thing, clumsy and awkward. And after the fact, I knew Matteo had the power to absolutely destroy me, break my heart into a million pieces, leaving nothing but an empty cavity in its spot. So to prevent that from happening, I