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“You worried about me?” he asked, and something in his tone made my belly wobble.
“Yes,” I admitted.
“Come here,” he said, holding out an arm.
I didn’t even pretend to hesitate.
I walked right into his chest, wrapping my arms around him.
His went around me immediately.
“Like that,” he admitted. “But you don’t have to. I know what I’m doing.”
I don’t know how long we stayed there like that, but I got the feeling that Silvano wasn’t going to let go until I was ready.
The thing was, I wasn’t sure I’d ever actually be ready to let go.
Still, I knew I had to.
So I stepped back.
“How long?” I asked.
“I wish I had an answer to that,” he said, shaking his head. “But I don’t. You’re safe here, though. There’s a card on file, so you can order all the food you want. Storm has food in here,” he said, waving toward one of the duffel bags. “But you can use this,” he said, reaching to hand me a bank card with his fake name on it. I wouldn’t even pretend to understand how he got an entire identity, bank accounts and all, like that. “Order anything to be delivered.”
“You’ve thought of everything,” I said. Except how to keep yourself safe through all of this.
“Don’t want you to worry about shit,” he said, shrugging it off. “Done enough worrying,” he added, moving out into the living space.
“Silvano,” I called when he seemed like he was about to just… walk out of the room.
“Yeah?” he asked, turning back.
“Don’t get yourself killed, okay?” I asked, reaching up to grab the front of his shirt, and pulling him in for a long, lingering kiss.
“I won’t,” he assured me, voice a little thick.
Then, that was it, he was gone.
And it was time for me to get to work.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Silvano
I didn’t love the idea of doing this shit on my own.
But seeing as I hadn’t told the Family about any of this shit, I had no choice.
Which was why I had to be smart about it.
Getting Millie safe was the most important part of the plan.
She was holed up in a nice hotel. The kind of place where the staff and the other guests would hear and come running if she needed to call for help.
She shouldn’t. But it was important to me that she could.
Plus, she had Storm with her.
