Unhinged
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Zach kisses me. It’s a long, soft kiss. His big arms wrap around me and hold me to him and I feel warm and safe and home and this time, the tears that slide down my cheeks are tears of happiness. Finally, after so many years, Zach and I, we’ve come full circle and we’re right where we belong.
Together.
The End
Dishonorable Sample
If you haven’t read Dishonorable yet, it’s Zach’s oldest brother, Raphael’s, story. Here is a sample.
Prologue 1
Sofia
July 2016
I shuddered at the sweep of cold air that rushed me when the basilica doors opened. They carried a warning. An omen.
My husband-to-be stood at the head of the aisle dressed in black from head to toe, opposite my bridal white.
Like a funeral.
Like my funeral.
He was striking, even if I hated him. His victorious eyes devoured me whole without ever leaving my own, trapping me, predator and prey. I wondered if his mouth was watering, saliva wet on his tongue, as he imagined my submission, my yielding to him.
I knew what was expected of me tonight. What he and my grandfather had worked into the contract that made me Raphael Amado’s property. We must consummate. My virgin blood must stain his sheets. My face burned with shame and fury, and each step reminded me that it was the devil I was about to marry. A monster, hiding beneath the most beautiful mask. And I knew as I walked toward my unchosen, unwanted destiny that I would never forgive my grandfather for his betrayal.
Prologue 2
Raphael
July 2016
She stood like a vestal virgin at the doors, her golden gaze arctic as it swept down the aisle to collide with mine. She masked her thoughts well, but when she lay beneath me tonight, I would own her. I would know her pleasure. Her pain. I would possess every inch of her.
She belonged to me already, even if she couldn’t stomach the idea. I wondered if I’d have to make her tonight. If I’d have to pry her legs apart and hold her down to soak my cock in her virgin’s blood. I needed to get that thought out of my head, though. It wouldn’t be right to stand before God and man with a fucking hard-on.
I watched her as she commenced to walk down the aisle: stunning, striking—and on my twin brother’s arm. She’d refused her grandfather. Beautiful, that. He deserved only her hate.
Her thick chestnut hair with its intricate braids had been arranged on top of her head. Even with the lace draping her pale face, I could see her eyes, set and accusing, burning into me, at odds with her soft, full lips and innocent, almost cherublike features.
When she reached me, my brother lifted the veil from her face. The look they exchanged grated on my nerves. They’d become fast friends.
Before handing her over to me, he pierced me with a look of clear disapproval. As if what I was doing was just for me. As if it weren’t for him too. As if I didn’t deserve everything I took, after what I’d been put through. His look accused me of stealing this virgin bride as if I were some sort of monster.
Well, he hadn’t walked the last few years in my shoes, so he could go fuck himself.
I shifted my gaze from my brother to Sofia, let it sweep down over her, seeing her in the dress I’d chosen. She only narrowed her shadowed eyes at me for that, but she didn’t fight, not when I covered her hand with mine, not when I drew her down to kneel before God. And when time came to promise to love, cherish, and obey—yes, I made sure to include the vow of obedience—Sofia spoke the words that would seal her fate and mine.
I do.
That was all it took, and she was mine.
And when we stood and faced each other as husband and wife, I wrapped my hand around the back of her neck and drew her to me, claiming her mouth with my own, announcing to anyone who had any doubt at all, that I owned this woman.
That she was mine.
And what was mine, no man had better put asunder.
Because I’d fucking kill any bastard who tried.
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Disgraced Sample
Disgraced is Damon, Zach’s other brother’s, story. We first meet Zach at the end of this book.
Damon
“Forgive me father for I have sinned…”
I knelt in the confessional, my face hidden from view. I didn’t know what I was doing here. What I sought. I felt more confused than ever.
More full of her than ever.
Last night should never have happened.
I should have walked away.
Instead, I brought her to my rooms. Told her to wash the makeup off her face. To strip off her dress.
To come to me.
And even knowing she was forbidden, knowing it was wrong, I took her hand and lay her down and looked at her.
All of her.
Traced every flower inked on her body.
Traced more than that.
I opened her and inhaled her scent.
I tasted her.
Felt her come on my tongue.
Felt her tremble beneath me.
Knowing all along the sin I committed.
And here I knelt now, seeking absolution, yet unable to confess. Because I wanted more, so much more. I wanted what was forbidden me.
I wanted her.
I had always wanted her.
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Other Books by Natasha Knight
Dishonorable
Disgraced
Salvatore: a Dark Mafia Romance
Dominic: a Dark Mafia Romance
The Benedetti Brothers Duet
Beautiful Liar
Retribution
Deviant
Theirs To Take
Captive, Mine
Alpha
Given to the Savage
Taken by the Beast
Claimed by the Beast
Captive’s Desire
Protective Custody
Amy’s Strict Doctor
Taming Emma
Taming Megan
Taming Naia
Reclaiming Sophie
The Firefighter’s Girl
Dangerous Defiance
Her Rogue Knight
Taught To Kneel
Tamed: the Roark Brothers Trilogy
What the Doctor Ordered Box Set
The Disciplinarian
Pierced
Acknowledgments
Cover Design by Shannoff Formats
Cover Photography By Wander Aguiar Photography
Cover Model Jonny James
Editing by Emma Bancroft
About the Author
USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance, Natasha Knight specializes in dark, tortured heroes. Happily-Ever-Afters are guaranteed, but she likes to put her characters through hell to get them there. She’s evil like that.
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