These Sinful Nights

These Sinful NightsElizabeth Bardot These Sinful NightsCopyright © 2023 by Elizabeth Bardot.All rights reserved. Printed in Australia. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations em- bodied in critical articles or reviews.This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organiza- tions, places, events and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.For information contact : elizabethbardot.comCover design by Wynter DesignsEditor : Leavens EditingFirst Edition : May 202310 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1For all the good girls that love a bad boy who would burn the world for you…how about four instead? Author NotesHello readers,This book does contain the expected violence – though not as intense as many others– that you can expect with a mafia romance.There is also a death of a family member due to cancer and mentions of fertility issues due to PCOS – though minimal.You will get a little dose of breeding kink, dom vibes and lots of good girl praise.If you feel I have missed a content warning for this story – please let me know!Happy reading my loves xo One Serena“Theo! You cheated!” I snarled through the head set as I stared at my screen and watched the replay. His deep laugh washed over me, hell this man had a set of pipes on him.“How on earth could I cheat at Call of Duty? It’s not my fault you’re so bad.” He replied and I rolled my eyes as I bit into a sour gummy.“I don’t know, but you’re a tech wizard, so I know you cheated somehow.” He sighed loudly and the childish part of me was glad he was irritated.My alarm sounded and I groaned. “I have to go. You working tomorrow?” I switched off the alarm and secretly hoped he would say yes. He worked part time in my father’s workshop, had done so since he was a kid, with my brothers right beside him.I had secretly had a crush on him since high school, not that it meant anything. Theo had announced his interest in men early on. My brothers had protected him from all the bullying and he was like a brother to me.That didn’t mean I couldn’t admire him as a hot specimen. We had stayed in contact even when I went away to Veterinary school, gaming at night together and keeping informed of my brothers’ antics.I was still a little mad at him for holding back from telling me about Pa, but it wasn’t up to him to say anything. and he had apologised relentlessly since I had come home.“Yeah, I’ll be there.” I smiled, saying goodbye before I made my way into the kitchen to get my father’s meds. He was sitting in his chair, oxygen tank hooked to him and watching some old black and white movie.“Pa, it’s time for your meds. You hungry at all?” He glanced up at me with a frown, shaking his head.“Serena, you don’t have to hover. I can look after myself.” He said gruffly, taking the meds from my hand. I bit back the retort, knowing that his stubbornness meant it didn’t matter what I said, he would still think he was fine on his own. The cancer was everywhere now, it was easier to say a place where it wasn’t. It was hard to see him like this, he had always been full of life, tending the garden that my mother had loved, and working long hours in the shop.I wasn’t a fool, Pa did some bad things in his past, things that me and my brothers had also learned too, but after Ma died, he went straight.The front door opened, and my brothers walked in, covered in grease from their day at the shop. Ethan and Lucas were so close in age that people thought they were twins.We all had the same dark hair, almost black as night, and olive skin. I had my mother’s brown eyes, whereas they inherited Pa’s blue ones.They stood almost 6ft tall, towering over my 5ft 4 frame, and they had been the biggest buttheads growing up. But I learned to fight from having big brothers who constantly tried to pick on me, but they always had my back.I had grown up a tomboy, always hanging around with them, and I was grateful that they included me, even if it was in things that were not so good for little girls to do.They ran Pa’s shop now, Vinnie’s Mechanics, and they specialized in modifying cars and bikes. The clientele were the kind not always the good side of the law. Behind closed doors, Vinnies was the place to take a car you needed fast cash for, a car you needed to strip and get rid of.Once, it had been me, Ethan, Lucas and Theo who would roam the streets at night, steal a couple of cars then hightail it home to strip them, sell them and move on.That all changed on the night Ma died. Shaking my head to get rid of the memories clawing at me, I frowned at them as they sat at the table with their filthy clothes and arms all over the tablecloth.“Hey! Ma would have the spoon out if she caught you that filthy in her kitchen. Get out and clean yourselves up.” Ethan grinned, his dimples making him look boyish as he reached for me.“Come on, little sis. Give us a hug.” He pulled me into his arm pit, and I yanked one of the hairs, making him screech like a girl.“Fuck off, E. You stink. You guys okay with grilled cheese?” They cackled as they left the kitchen, beers in hand, and nodded. I was no cook. I was too often running wild with my brothers to learn from Ma.Her recipe book sat on the