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A cruel sneer tugs at his lips.
“What do you know about the Greek and Albanian war?” he asks. “Did your father ever tell you about the monster he was? How he butchered women and children just to get what he wanted?”
I'd heard of that war alright. My father liked to boast about his conquests. I was too young to understand the first time I heard him tell it at a dinner party but as I grew, I slowly began to understand what kind of man my father really was.
Jonah is right. My father was a monster and if I get out of these ropes, he's going to see how very much like him I am.
“You're only painting one side of the picture,” I tell him. “I know all about what my father did and how disgusting it was. But I also know what the Albanians did. He killed your women and children and that was wrong because family should never be involved in a mafia war. But—they were murdering innocent people that had nothing to do with their war against the families. They had blood running in the streets of Vegas. People were afraid to come out of their homes or to visit at all because of the chaos the Albanians caused.”
“Did you know Cora was Albanian?”
I shake my head. “Not until recently,” I admit.
He lets out a rough sigh and nods his head. “Cora was my brother’s wife. When your father murdered him, he took her for himself. Turned her into a prostitute. A whore.” He turns away from me toward the kitchen table and picks up a small case. “Then he got her pregnant. Imagine my surprise when I found her at that rehab. I was going to rescue her. I told her we would take back the Albanian empire here and wipe the Castellanos from the face of the earth. Do you know what she said?” He turns back to me with a raised brow.
I swallow hard and shake my head.
“She told me it was over and to accept the defeat.” He chuckles as he takes a pair of pliers from the case. “I didn't take that so well.”
Fear tightens my stomach, and my mouth grows dry.
Is he going to use those on me?
Jonah walks toward me, every step he takes causes my heart to be faster and faster until I'm sure that it will punch through my rib cage. I can't think straight with the blood rushing to my head as terror seizes my lungs.
“I left her there with the promise of revenge. I told her I’d be back for her and that she’d come with me, or she’d die. Imagine my surprise the next time I found her she'd given birth.”
“Ada,” I whisper hoarsely.
Jonah chuckles darkly. “Did you know that a family's ability to give birth to twins is genetic?” he asks. Wait, is he saying what I think he's saying? “It's very rare for every offspring to be a twin but not rare enough that it can't happen.”
Oh my god. How could I miss that? That was the piece I couldn't get to fit in the puzzle. The moment that I saw that Cora's body was still in her casket, I came up with every plausible scenario that I could but none of them came to this.
I can hear the jingle of bracelets and the soft click of heels against the carpet behind me. Please, don't let it be her. Don't take that away from me. I closed my eyes and take a deep breath, the ache in my chest growing.
My body senses the disturbance of air in front of me as the clicking of heels comes to a sudden halt. My brain is begging me to open my eyes, but my heart is telling me don't because it knows what I see in front of me will ultimately break it.
Slowly, I peel open my eyes, tears streaming down my cheeks as a sob breaks loose.
“Hello, little sister.”
I look at the woman in front of me. My best friend. And for the second time today, my heart shatters.
Thirty-Seven
Where the fuck is she?
Kenzo hasn’t had any luck tracking Vanya’s device. The signal keeps pinging on multiple cell phone towers, and he can’t get a lock.
“This isn’t a malfunction,” he tells me. “Someone is purposely misleading you so that you can’t pinpoint her location.”
“Who would have the ability to do that?”
Kenzo shrugs. “Only people who know about it and have access to the software.”
Eric.
I turn to Anton. “Get some men down to Eric’s place now,” I order. “I want to know what the fuck is going on.”
