Free Dark Soul Vol. 2 by Aleksandr Voinov

Dark Soul
    Vol. 2
    Aleksandr Voinov
    Riptide Publishing
    PO Box 6652
    Hillsborough, NJ 08844
    http://www.riptidepublishing.com
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Dark Soul (Vol 2)
    Copyright © 2011 by Aleksandr Voinov Cover Art by Jordan Taylor, http://jordantaylorbooks.com Editor: Rachel Haimowitz
    Layout: L.C. Chase
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    ISBN: 978-1-937551-13-1
    Printed in the United States of America First edition
    November, 2011
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    About Dark Soul,

Volume 2
    The second volume in the Dark Soul series features the stories “Dark Whisper”
    and “Dark Night.”
    In “Dark Whisper,” Gianbattista may have broken Silvio’s heart and sent him off to the States, but he’s still just a phone call away. When Silvio returns from a sex shop with a bag full of goodies, Gianbattista can’t resist topping his boy one more time, even if they are 4,000 miles apart.
    In “Dark Night,” the Russian problem comes back to haunt Stefano, and when a dark encounter leaves him bloody and broken, Silvio knows just the right way to ease his pain.
    To Jordan Taylor, who translates what’s in my head into real images.
    I’m not sure how you do it, but I hope you’ll never stop. Thank you.

Dark Whisper
    Silvio froze when the phone rang, his blood crystal izing in a split second. He stared at the curtains, sensed the windows Sbehind them. No movement, no hint of danger.
    Billowing curtains. Night outside. Phone ringing in a dark house.
    Drawing him to the living room. Something striking him over the head.
    Diego Carbone, stepping close with his skull-and-death grin, flicking his mobile shut.
    The phone rang again. Just like then, his blood unfroze, only faster because Diego was dead. He still checked the doors and windows, wishing he had a gun he could pull like a talisman. A lot of people didn’t live to learn from a mistake.
    He exhaled and lifted the receiver, settling his shoulders and back against the nearest wall from which he could keep his eyes on the windows. “Yes.”
    “Silvio.”
    Silvio blinked, then his legs relaxed and he let his head fall back.
    Gianbattista. “What do you want?”
    “To talk to you.”
    Silvio huffed laughter. Yet another ghost from the past. “No, what do you want ?”
    “Hear how you’re doing over there in America. It’s been two weeks now. How are you ‘getting on’?”
    This house has too