Phantom: Her Ruthless Villain (Ruthless Triad 5)

He came around the table, drew back his arm, and slammed his fist so hard into Garrett’s mouth, it came back scratched up and covered in shattered teeth.

Luckily, all the castle servants had been given the day off, and Olivia’s father was still at the office with the Easton lawyers. Otherwise, everybody would have heard Garrett screaming out of his broken mouth.

The guy’s thrashing around in pain made things a little inconvenient for Phantom, actually. The Russians had to hold him still just so Phantom could stomp a wingtip down on each leg, crushing both of his knees.

But in the end, everything worked out. Garrett wasn’t able to handle that much pain and lost consciousness. Convenient. That allowed the Russians to easily haul him up and drag him to the van they’d parked at the kitchen entrance.

“Make sure he falls on his face to cover that up,” Phantom instructed the two representatives of the Sokolov Bratva as they took out the trash.

They gave him a thumbs up.

And that was the last time he or Olivia ever saw that prick again.

People who work for rich people—gotta love them. There were only a few rounds of blinks when Phantom showed up to the wedding rehearsal instead of Garrett later that morning.

After the rehearsal, he drove Olivia into Louisville to find a new dress—a long-sleeved lace number that showed off her baby bump instead of hiding it.

So when her dad walked her down the aisle the next day, everyone who still had questions figured out why she was marrying Phantom instead of Garrett pretty damn quick.

There wasn’t as much whispering as he would have expected either. It probably helped that Phantom’s last-minute guest list now occupied the Easton side. Members of The Silent Triad filled up most of the rows. And Phantom’s family sat with his fellow Dragons right upfront.

He even flew out Bernice and O2 last minute so that Eric would have someone to talk to other than Mike.

When Phantom finally kissed his bride, their loud cheers made up for the polite but baffled clapping from Olivia’s side.

Whatever. They drowned out all the remaining awkward with quality champagne, VIP Bai3 baijiu, Glendaver Whiskey, and plenty of gourmet food at the wedding reception.

Nora, the new head of the 24K that he’d helped install the year before, couldn’t make it. But she flew in a world-famous DJ to play the reception as a wedding gift, and Phantom pulled him aside for a few words.

Olivia laughed and let him pull her out of her seat when the DJ announced the bride and groom’s first dance and put on the Cardi B version of “I Like it Like That.”

The first time he’d danced with her, she could barely look him in the eye.

But Dr. Glendaver-Zhang took to the floor with her husband without hesitation and trusted him to lead them in the Bride and Groom dance she’d just found out about a few seconds ago.

He could have done a flourish or something like that when the song began to fade. But nah….

He pulled her into his arms for a slow sway and reminded her, “So we’re doing this forever now. It’s official.”

“Alright,” she said with a New York shrug, even though it looked like they’d be moving into this big ass castle in Kentucky after the wedding.

“Alright,” he agreed.

And that was the serious truth, even though neither of them could stop smiling.

The fake couple, who hadn’t been sure if they were deserving of real love, had found a forever home in each other.