Underhanded Games

"'You know who we are and what we do. You know where we do business. We're going to have to keep you in the family now. You're our delivery boy, you got that? You try to run, you try to tell anyone... you know what happens?'The look of hopelessness on Anthony's face when Dmitri had said that had scorched him, penetrated him to the very core, and filled him with a self-loathing so intense he had felt it rise as nausea in his throat. And yet he hadn't loosened that hateful grip, hadn't...
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"'You know who we are and what we do. You know where we do business. We're going to have to keep you in the family now. You're our delivery boy, you got that? You try to run, you try to tell anyone... you know what happens?'The look of hopelessness on Anthony's face when Dmitri had said that had scorched him, penetrated him to the very core, and filled him with a self-loathing so intense he had felt it rise as nausea in his throat. And yet he hadn't loosened that hateful grip, hadn't apologized. He had doubled down even further when he felt the frightened boy trying to escape. 'I will find you, anywhere you go.'"Anthony Colton is a survivor. Poor and orphaned, yet fiercely determined, the young bike messenger barely makes ends meet by completing deliveries on his bicycle in the pulsing heat of the city. Ever since he was hit by a car on a delivery two years ago and suffered a concussion, he's had to work twice as hard to recover both his memories and his financial standing.Obscenely rich banker by day and mobster by night, Dmitri Volkov quietly watches over the confident delivery boy from afar. He's kept his eye on Anthony since the day of his accident, never stepping out from the shadows, never making himself known. That is, until he sees a chance to draw Anthony into his world.When Anthony gets caught up doing a job for the Russian mob, he doesn't know how he is going to disentangle himself from the strange and dangerous situation he finds himself in. Dmitri, right-hand man to the mob leader Mr Solokov, offers Anthony a deal: 10,000 dollars a month to work exclusively as his errand boy in return for protection from the mob and its enemies. Anthony, feeling trapped and yet somehow drawn to the darkly familiar Dmitri, agrees. What Anthony doesn't know is that this isn't the first time Dmitri has saved him, and there's a reason that nostalgia settles deep in his gut whenever he looks at the stern, sharp-jawed face of the mobster. As their relationship devolves into something carnal, something toxic and inescapable, Anthony is plagued by half-formed memories and feelings of deja vu, coming back to the same question again and again, the words beating in his chest like an anthem: who are you, who are you, who are you?Anthony knows that Dmitri holds the key to the missing pieces of his past. But will the cruel Russian billionaire ever admit that he's really the hero of Anthony's story? Or will Dmitri only tighten his iron grip, unwittingly pushing Anthony away and losing the only thing he's cared about for the past two years forever?Coming June 2019! Contains explicit MM scenes, some violence, graphic language, and a HEA.