De Luca: The Sinister Game (THE MEN OF MAYHEM #3) by Chelle Rose EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Chelle Rose
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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NATALIA
Twelve first dates and zero second ones can leave a girl feeling
more inadequate than usual. I’ve never felt like I’m enough, so it’s
not entirely new. It stings. What am I doing that makes none of these men
want to see me again? There must be something I’m doing or not doing, but
I’ve gone through it a thousand times in my mind, and every time, I come
up empty-handed. I don’t know why I am constantly ghosted.
The excitement you usually feel when getting ready for a first date isn’t
present on date number thirteen. Three months. Thirteen dates. I should
probably just throw in the towel, buy ten cats, and get it over with. I sit at a
fancy Italian restaurant, waiting for my date, Anthony, to show up. He’s ten
minutes late. I don’t get second dates, but being stood up is new.
I glance at
the ceiling and appreciate the handcrafted wine glass chandelier. The tables
all have a white tablecloth and floating candles in a holder that looks like a
small fishbowl. Most restaurants I’ve been to have a selection of booths and
tables; however, there are no booths here. Black chairs sit at each table, a
stark contrast to the color of the tablecloths.
The server returns to me for the twentieth time. “Still waiting?”
I sigh, trying to convey how annoyed I am that she keeps asking, “I’ll
take another glass of wine and the bill.”
The annoyance she feels is visible in her arched brow. “Yes, ma’am,”
she bites. As pissed as I’m sure she is that her tip will be much lower for
two drinks versus two meals, I can guarantee you, it’s me that’s the most
irritated.
My best friend is happily married, disgustingly so. I’m happy for her,
really, I am, but it stings watching them together and wondering if I’ll never
have what she does. I don’t want everything she has; she’s married to a
mafia man. No, thank you. Her husband has three brothers. Dante has asked
me out more times than I can count. My answer has always been no. Then
there’s Drake, who looks at me like he wants nothing more than to kill me.
Are there no good guys left?
I hand the server my credit card as she sets my wine before me. She’s a
pretty blonde, wearing a black skirt and a white button-down blouse. I
know she’ll make plenty of tips tonight based on that alone. Aren’t things
always easier for pretty people? I felt uncomfortable when she approached
my table because she reminded me so much of Nicole. The server walks
away, her heels clicking on the black marble floor as I stare at my wine and
get lost in my painful past.
Since I was four years old, I have known I would be a dancer. A
ballerina, more specifically. My life is like a tragic Cinderella story, except
my sister is my twin, not my step-sister. My mother is also my biological
mother, although sometimes I’m not sure if she realizes it. And there’s no
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