Dante's Storm

Contents Copyright About Also by Acknowledgments Scandalous Secrets reading order Last note Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Part II Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Get epilogues Blurb Triggers Author note Follow Copyright Dante’s Storm Copyright © 2023 by B. Lybaek Cover Designer: DAZED designs graphic art All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Any unauthorized distribution, circulation or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. All names, characters, events, and places found in this book are either from the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any similarity to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, live or dead, is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. All rights reserved. About Bibi is a dark romance author who is addicted to coffee, Piña coladas, and chocolate... all the beautiful things that make life go around. She loves talking about herself in third person, it makes her feel special. She lives in the North East of England, in a small town no one has ever heard of. Her household (herself and her boyfriend of 10 years) is ruled by their feline mistress who puts the 'tude in tortitude. Bibi is changing her pen name from Ren Blakely to B. Lybaek. A pure vanity move as she wanted to see her real name on her books #NamesMatters You can find Bibi all over the internet.. probably procrastinating. Also by The Drákon LegacyProtégéHeirLeaderRuler The Metamorphosis DuetEmotionally dark MF friends-to-loversJust Leave #1Just Stay #2 Dancing with DesireDark stripper & stalker WhyChooseTempting DistractionsUntold SecretsBeautiful ChancesDancing with Desire OMNIBUS The Cruz Kings MCCo-write with Sarah JDTempted by a King Acknowledgments Aimie, Alexis, Biana, Daisie, Jennifer, Jessica, and Kerrie—the amazing alphas who helped savagely whip Dante and Storm into shape. Anoesjka, Dorothy, Melissa F, and Melissa M—the amazing betas. An extra thank you to Jennifer for being my proofreading hero. Tara and Sara for embracing my crazy idea and running with it. I love you ladies! Scandalous Secrets reading order Dante's StormBy B. Lybaek Lily's AshBy Sarah JD Avery's FallBy T.L Hodel Last note The scandal isn’t in the secret, it’s in those unwilling to accept that love can be unconventional, dark, and depraved. Part I Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. —Riley Shane Chapter 1 DanteMy eyes turn to slits as I look at the pathetic waste-of-space couple strung up in front of me. The woman whimpers softly, no longer screaming the bloody roof down. The guy—her husband—retches again, and by the sounds, I’m pretty sure he isn’t enjoying the meal prepared especially for them.“What’s the matter?” I ask, taunting him. “This is what you fed your foster kids, so it must be something you like yourself.”Beth scoffs, the sound of her heels clicking on the concrete floor reverberates off the empty walls caging us in. The stench of piss becomes more prominent, and I sigh in exasperation. “That’s the third piss strike,” I observe without turning around. “Who did it?”A smile makes my lips twitch as the wife is quick to throw her husband under the bus. Partners for better, but obviously they’re not taking the worse part all that seriously. “It was him. It was Sean.” Desperation wafts off of her, and her voice is so shrill I’m pretty sure that if she keeps going, only dogs will understand her.“Shut up, you useless cunt,” Sean bites. “It was you. Your hole is so used you can’t keep anything inside you.”I turn my gaze on Beth and roll my eyes at the same time she shrugs. “I didn’t see,” she casually says. “Maybe they should lick it up together?”Throwing my head back, I laugh so loud it hurts my cheeks. “You’re bloody savage,” I say, smiling approvingly at the woman that’s now standing next to me. “Was she there when you picked these up?” I tip my head towards the couple, refusing to call them humans since they don’t have even a modicum of humanity in them.Shaking her head, Beth says, “No, the Crimson Angel wasn’t there. But she had been.” The question of how she knows is at the tip of my tongue, but before I can ask, Beth carries on. “She’d left her calling card. Probably used the blood from the gash in Sean’s forehead.”The Crimson Angel… one of Briarwood’s unknown vigilantes who takes pleasure in bringing down vile miscreants, but always hiding in the shadows. Since we’ve only captured her on camera once walking away, I know little except that she’s a woman. Well, that and the fact she likes to draw an angel using the blood of her victims, and if it happens to be one we’re after, they’re left alive for us to pick up—she’s considerate like that.Though I might like to say that I no longer worry about the Angel, I very much do. The unknown person has a concerning amount of knowledge about us, what we do, and our targets. Apart from that one time, she’s outsmarted me every time I’ve tried to catch her either on camera or in the act. Since the Angel is assisting rather than hindering us, I’ve come