Page 166 of Revere: A Legacy Novel

Dante glared.

Cross held strong.

“She’s my daughter,” Dante finally said.

Cross nodded. “I know, but she’s my heart. I’ll get you the fucking guns—I’ll run them. You just tell me where, and make sure that man never comes down on us once it’s all been said and done.”

“I—”

“We can do that,” Catrina interrupted her husband.

A look passed between Dante and Catrina.

Then, the Marcello boss turned on him. “Twenty-four hours. Get those guns in port.”

Cross was already heading out of the room before Dante had finished his order. He needed to move his ass because the clock had started, and time was running out already. His fingernails dug into the palms of his hands as the voices behind him lessened as he came closer to the front of the Marcello mansion.

One person had followed him.

Zeke.

His friend hollered after him, but Cross was too busy running shit scenarios through his head. He didn’t even hear Zeke behind him until his friend shoved his back into a wall.

Zeke grabbed Cross’s face, and forced him to look at him. “Relax, huh? You’re not even hearing anything right now, Cross. You don’t work well when you’re being stupid.”

He was so numb.

So cold.

So pissed.

“Kind of can’t right now,” Cross managed to get out.

His friend’s fingers dug into his skin. “It’s going to be fine.”

“You don’t know that.”

“Hey, we’re going to do what we have to do, and run some fucking guns. That’s what you do anyway, right? This time, you get a nice little gift when you get there. Figure it out. I’m going to do whatever the hell you need me to in the meantime; I got your back. You just do you.”

Yeah …

Cross could do that.

Maybe.

“I have to go back to Chicago,” Cross said. “Except I was just told not to step foot back in that city for a long time.”

Zeke’s brow furrowed. “What, why?”

“I screwed them over.”

“Shit.”

It didn’t matter.

“Chicago has guns, and I know how to get them. That’s where we need to go.”

Zeke grimaced. “Let’s try not to get killed before we can even get Catherine back, all right?”