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“I’m … I’m not yours.”
“You’ve been mine since that day at the warehouse.” He presses a kiss on my forehead. “Quit pretending you think otherwise.”
I hold my hand to my chest when he pulls back and stands.
“Let’s take care of this body,” he tells the other man when he returns and peers at me. “I’ll call your brother, let him know you’re okay, and then you can tell me what color bow we should put on Elijah’s body after I package him up as a present.”
30
“Protect her with your life,” I tell Leo after we pack Elijah’s useless body in my trunk.
Gigi refused to pick his bow color, so I went with red. It matches the blood matted in his hair, and I’m always up for color coordination.
“You know I will,” Leo tells me.
Leo is my cousin and has been just as involved in this life as I have. I trust him, and he hasn’t turned his back on me for Sonny.
I didn’t kidnap Gigi to keep her in some dark cellar and torture her. I took her because I’m fucking obsessed with her, and if anyone attempts to take that obsession away, I’ll slit open every vein in their body and watch them slowly bleed to death.
Since I have dozens of missed calls from Benny and unknown numbers, I’m sure the Marchettis know I have her. I wait until I’m back in my car before returning Benny’s call. They need to know I have no intention of hurting Gigi … and I also have no intention of releasing her until Sonny is dead.
“Hello, Benny,” I say when he answers my call. “It’s Antonio.”
“Where the fuck is my sister?” he screams. “Every minute you fail to tell me is another minute I’ll spend torturing you.”
I work my jaw and start the car. “I’m not letting her go.”
“What do you want? Guns from Severino? Done. Now, let her go.”
Done, my ass.
Even if I agreed to this deal—which I won’t because it means I’d lose Gigi—he’s full of shit anyway. As soon as I showed up for thisdeal, they’d kill my ass.
I crack my neck. “I didn’t take Gigi to blackmail you. I took her to protect her.”
Benny scoffs. “We protect her just fine.”
“Natalia was kidnapped. Neomi shot. Both of those done by the hands of Lombardis.” I curl my palms into fists, just thinking about something like that happening to Gigi.
“Thank you for reminding me,” Benny interrupts. “I’ll make sure you suffer extra now.”
“My uncle wants to kill Gigi to get to me. I can’t let that happen.”
“Why would he kill my sister to get back at you?”
“Because I love her.”
There’s a moment of silence. My confession was never supposed to slip from my mouth.My truthwas supposed to stay hidden.
“She will stay with me until I kill my uncle,” I continue. “No one will know where she is. Including you.”
I end the call.
Now, I have a priest to kidnap.
The smell of incense is heavy, and the cathedral is quiet when I enter. I scan my surroundings without seeing anyone.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
