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Roderigo, one of Nona’s dumbass minions, came running up next to us.
“I got here… as fast as I could… when I heard the screaming,” he panted.
“Would you please tell her that I’m here as a friend?” the big guy said, obviously annoyed with me.
Roderigo wiped a bead of sweat off his brow. “It’s true – he saved your grandmother, Lucia.”
“If he didn’t fuckin’ set her up in the first place,” I snarled.
“You have to come back to the palazzo,” Roderigo said.
“WHY, exactly?”
“Because it’s not safe out here.”
I rolled my eyes.
“It’s never fuckin’ safe ‘out here,’” I said, using my fingers to make air quotes. “You people are always saying that.”
“Men tried to kidnap your grandmother,” Massimo snapped.
“Who, your men?” I asked sarcastically.
Massimo was getting even more irritated.
Not gonna lie, I kinda liked pushing his buttons.
“NO, not my men – ”
“Please, Lucia,” Roderigo asked in the voice he used when he was afraid I was going to make a scene.
Which he tended to use pretty often, because I had to make a lot of scenes to get even a speck of freedom.
If Nona had her way, I’d spend my life on a ten-foot leash… and she’d still want eight feet of slack in her hand.
“No,” I said.
“Lucia – ”
“What are you going to do, lock me away in the castle for a week? A month? How long?”
“Probably just for a day or two – ”
“That’s what you said last year. ‘Just a day or two, Lucia! Don’t worry, it’ll all be over soon!’ And then two days turned into two weeks, which turned into two months – ”
“Lucia – ”
“NO. I’m not fuckin’ Rapunzel, and I’m not staying in your goddamn tower. If Nona’s so worried about my safety, tell her to get out of the fuckin’ Cosa Nostra.”
I turned to leave –
But the big guy was faster.
“Fuck this,” I heard him mutter –
And then he picked me up and tossed me over his shoulder.
Like, literally picked me up in the air and tossed me over his shoulder.
