Emperor's Heart Part II

By Sylvia Hubbard

Family or Lust? Living or Dying? Loving or Leaving?.. Book Two explores decisions that must be made in the life of the notorious Emperor Heart.

As much as he's tried to keep a distance from his family, his addiction he was unable to control leads in deep in the Heart of Chicago to come face to face with one one person he never wanted to lay eyes on again...

King Heart.

On top of that, he's still battling his powerful attraction to his daughter's friend, while the danger to the lives of anyone he cares about could be in serious danger.

Emperor has to choose before it's too late, but the blood of his father runs through his veins and until he faces his bond to the one woman he should never have touched in the first place, peace from the pain in his heart, his loins or his body will never be obtained.

The war is coming. Will you be #TeamKing or #TeamLethal?

Emperor's Heart is the second installment from Emperor's Addiction but the sixth standalone book in the Heart of Detroit Series

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sylvia Hubbard
• Release date: Nov 28, 2019

Sylvia Hubbard

Detroit native, Sylvia Hubbard, a single mother of three, has worked tirelessly to promote and encourage emerging writers in Michigan. She independently published her first romance novel in 2000 and has continued to write in that genre, sometimes venturing into other sub-genres. Always urban and contemporary styled, her writing is enjoyed all over the world. She has published 8 paperbacks and over 30 e-books.The same year she published, Ms Hubbard also created Motown Writers Network to fill the lack of education and networking for Michigan authors online and offline. By 2004, she was frustrated that all the literary conferences had moved too far away from the city and co-created The Essence of Motown Literary Jam Conference held only in the City of Detroit annually.In addition to romance writing, Hubbard has been featured at various conferences and workshops all over the United States and Canada, where she has taught authors how to sell their books on the Internet. She also published Internet Marketing for Writers & Businesses as a resource for those unable to attend her workshops. In the upcoming year, she will be featured in several anthologies and plans to publish additional e-books.

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Emperor’s Addiction Part II

Heart of Detroit

Book 6

Sylvia Hubbard

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Author’s Note: If you haven’t picked up book one, and you just bought this book, I implore you to please read that. If you’ve read book one a while ago, then go back and read it before continuing even though I know you just really want to get to the rest of this story.

This is a family chart draft on a live story back in 2009. I’ve added more characters and plot twists. I hope you enjoy yourself as you continue the saga of The Hearts of Detroit.

(Not included, Diamonds in the Rough characters, any second-generation cousins, plus anything after 2010)

If you are reading this after 2019, then you are reading Part 2 e-book. There are two parts to this book. This is a standalone book in the Heart of Detroit Series. Emperor’s Addiction Part one should be available and updated where you purchased this book or you can find the other copy at the author’s website at http://sylviahubbard.com/books.

Enjoy and please leave a review.

(This book is a continuation from Part One of Emperor’s Addiction)

Chapter 13

All Emperor’s life, he had to deal with either the demons he had or the demons that haunted this family. His life seemed to be coming to a culmination where both were clashing, and soon he felt everything was going to erupt. All he wanted to do was go find Reese, bury himself between her legs, and tell the world to go fuck itself.

The tingles down his spine indicated his pain was coming back, and he desperately craved for the tender touch of Reese’s soft hands kneading his muscles, making him forget the craving and forget the pain.

He needed her more mentally than physically at the moment, especially after the phone call he had just disconnected from.

Hell, he was asking for a straight ticket to hell just thinking about her. Reese was trouble for him. Her age and the fact she was his fourteen-year-old daughter’s friend made even thinking about being with her wrong.

Yet, Emperor couldn’t deny his cravings, and he couldn’t deny the blood that ran through his vein.

His cousin Lethal had just revealed to him news he could barely fathom and hung up the phone abruptly, leaving Emperor confused and angry, but mostly confused.

Emperor would have demanded Lethal tell him more, but Lethal hung up and Trixie took her phone back from Emperor.

Can I drive now? Trixie asked with boredom and irritation.

So disoriented, he handed his other cousin the keys and slid into the passenger seat.

Trixie burned rubber taking off and headed west on Interstate-94. Taking an envelope from the inside of her jacket, she handed this to Emperor.

This is the message, she said simply as if that would explain everything Lethal had confused Emperor about over the phone. Open it.

The thick envelope was sealed with Lethal’s initials on the edge. On the front was just one word: King

In a million years, Emperor would never think Lethal would want to send a message to King, except to tell the cousin who had betrayed the family decades ago how he wanted to kill him with his bare hands, just like Lethal had done to their father Daemon Heart.

What’s this about? Emperor questioned Trixie before thinking about opening the envelope.

Trixie looked with dread at the road as she explained, Two days ago, Rosemary Orleans’ home burned down, but there were no bodies found. She’s missing, along with everyone else who was with her.

Emperor could hear heavy worry in her voice because even though Trixie wasn’t close to her mother, she still cared for the woman very much.

Does Treasure know about this?

Trixie shook her head gravely. Only Lethal and I know anything. It was tough not saying anything, but we didn’t want to jump to conclusions until we knew the absolute truth.

Rosemary Orleans was the mother to Uncle Nevers Heart’s children. Taking her youngest child, Luscious Heart, she distanced herself immediately from the family, even her other children fathered by other men, and moved to New York when Nevers Heart was killed by his own brother Daemon Heart. She signed custody of her other children fathered by Nevers over to Lethal Heart and dropped off the face of the earth with her other kids and Luscious, not wanting to have anything to do with the Hearts in terrible fear of her life from Daemon. She adopted a troubled child, Katana, who constantly ran away from home, but would always return.

Yet, running from the Heart bloodline didn’t keep Rosemary from being affected by the curse. Luscious impregnated Katana just a year ago, but unlike his father, he stayed in New York to stay close to his family. Katana had stopped running away completely after having the baby. Occasionally Luscious would pop in Detroit and do small jobs for Lethal and visit the family, but never to stay for long.

The last time, Katana and the baby had joined him, and Luscious had even looked up Emperor in the visit. The guy was ecstatic and would have said something was amiss with the family if there was something to be worried about back then.

Rosemary is a convicted arsonist, Trixie. That doesn’t incite fear or alarm in me, Emperor said. She could’ve started something she couldn’t control.

Trixie agreed, When we initially heard about the fire, it didn’t wave to Lethal either, until he couldn’t contact Luscious, and even Katana’s missing, along with the baby.

Missing as in Katana decided to disappear on her own again, or she’s really missing? Emperor’s brother Sheriff had grown up with Katana and Luscious. Sheriff hadn’t said anything to Emperor about anything suspicious, so all of this still didn’t bother Emperor a lot. Yet, he briefly recollected the odd phone conversation he had gotten from Blaque a while back. The cracking of bone still sent shivers down his spine.

Trixie said with a lot of dread, The whole family seems to have gone missing, even Nevers’ son. Luscious has never gone off grid.

Worried, he asked, Does Sheriff know yet?

Not yet, Trixie said grudgingly. Lethal didn’t want to say anything until he knew where Katana was.

And?

And he thinks she’s dead. We’re waiting for confirmation on a body that came up in the Hudson yesterday with the neck broke.

Emperor searched his memory hard. And you sure this isn’t Katana pretending dead again? Let’s not forget the alliance she had with Blaque a couple of times out of the country. What makes you think Blaque hasn’t convinced her to help her get into Detroit?

Trixie gripped the wheel hard. I’ll admit, Katana has done some stupid things to get in with the family, but once she fell in love with Luscious, he and the baby were her life, and she’d do anything to protect them.

Emperor shifted uncomfortably as he started thinking of the things he’d do for Eartha, his daughter and what he would do for Reese, his newfound obsession. His heart lurched. And the boy? The baby. They haven’t seen him at all?

Also missing, Trixie answered quietly.

Why? Why do you think this is happening, Trixie?

Trixie turned from the road to give him an you should already know look.

Emperor raised his eyebrows. What, Trix? What don’t I know?

Blaque, she said obviously.

Why did it just feel like Lethal punched him again?

He rubbed his chest and looked down at the envelope. Why would Blaque-

Trixie interrupted him. Why WOULD she? You answer that question, Emperor. You know your evil little sister just as well as anyone else, and you know deep down that crazy bitch would make her father happy even though he’s dead. Lethal made sure he put that man in the ground himself, but Blaque swore to continue his mission. You can tell me until you’re blue in the face King had her under control, but she was one beer short of a six pack on thin ice. I think that ice broke, and Lethal thinks she’s ballsy enough now to do it. Something must’ve happened to make King lose control of his sister.

That was impossible. King never lost control of anything, except once, which had divided the family, but Emperor’s brother swore to never lose control again.

For a long time, Emperor chose to ignore his siblings and their background, particularly the bad blood he came from. He knew he could never forget where he came from and especially WHO he came from, but he tried every day to ignore the true facts of his past and the shit they caused.