Page 56 of Heartless Sinner

Never trust men in power.

Especially the pretty ones. They were the worst.

Vittoria shot me a glare so nasty I saw her mother in her.

Her hostility made no sense. She was in my bedroom, halfway out of her clothes, with my psychopath.

I hugged Cory’s jacket tighter around my shivering body.

Brooks cracked his neck and rushed toward us. He ripped me away from Cory and sent me stumbling toward the armoire.

Cory let out a long, exhausted sigh, like he was already sick of breaking up fights between Brooks and me. “Come on, Vittoria.” He motioned toward the door.

Vittoria didn’t budge as she waited for Brooks to change his mind.

Brooks tipped his chin toward Cory. “Go with him.”

“But …” Vittoria glanced between them. “I thought⁠—”

Brooks spoke over her, “You thought what? I’d fuck you in your cousin’s bed?”

The way he said it made Vittoria look worse than him.

When she didn’t move, Brooks grabbed Vittoria’s arm, handed her off to Cory, and shoved them both into the hallway.

“Wait!” Vittoria cried before the door slammed in her face. She immediately started yelling from the other side.

Brooks calmly locked her out.

I stared at him in disgust when he looked at me. “My cousin, really?”

“Relax.” He tugged at his sleeve, as if explaining himself was already becoming tedious. “I had no intention of touching her. She was merely my source to get into your bedroom. The striptease wasn’t part of the plan.”

“Did you ask her to stop?”

“Actually, yes.”

“Liar.”

“Do you think I care if you believe me?”

“Why’d you want in my room?”

He rolled his head back, staring at the ceiling, as if I was the annoying one. “I’m so tired of repeating myself.”

“Then answer the question like a normal person. Be straight up and honest for once.”

When I wrapped Cory’s jacket tighter around me, I knew I’d made a mistake. Brooks’s eyes zeroed in on it.

Uh-oh.

Wearing another man’s clothes when Brooks was in one of his possessive moods was a bad idea. But it wasn’t like I put myself in this position.

“I told you to stop letting other men touch you. I’ve made that pretty fucking clear, but you don’t listen.”

“You’re seriously mad about Cory rescuing me from the water?” I threw my arms up, and the jacket fell open, exposing my naked body.

Brooks’s stare immediately dropped to my breasts.