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I told them all that. My brothers included.
“What do you have for me?”
“We found Mark. Salvatore and Gabe found him, but …there’s a complication.”
“What the fuck is it?” I ball my fist and tighten my grip on the phone. Mark is a simpleton, a fucking simpleton. He shouldn’t have been this hard to find, yet we’ve spent the last three days looking for him.
“His daughter was there, and… she’s seen too much.”
“You fool,” I snap.
“Boss, there was nothing we could do about it. We caught up with them at the docks. Near the warehouses.”
Fuck… fucking Mark. What did he think he was going to do? Swim away from us? And with his daughter?
I didn’t even fucking know he had a daughter. Men like him make me sick. You have family and behave the way he does…
Stupid fucktard. I’ll teach him a lesson tonight he won’t forget. I stand, and Aurora starts putting her clothes back on. I look away from her and gaze around the suite. I need to calm down. I don’t want to do any killing tonight, but duty calls, and I won’t allow this to drag into tomorrow.
I call Mark a simpleton, but he’s actually managed to screw with me in a way no one has.
This is what happens when you trust too much. You get screwed over. This is what happens when you give a man a chance when he looks desperate.
The problem with giving people chances is you facilitate their behavior. You make them worse, and others suffer for it.
I suffered big time.
I reach for my biker jacket and check for my gun. Aurora tenses when she sees it.
“Boss, are you still there?” Tony asks nervously.
“I am. Take them to La Volpe Rossa.” That’s where we question people. Pa had the place set up just for that. It also makes a good torture chamber for the less cooperative. I think I may need to make full use of the place tonight.
“Okay, got it.”
“I’m on my way.” I hang up and shove the phone in my pocket.
I start doing up my buttons and shrug into my jacket.
“Will… you be coming back?” Aurora asks. She presses her lips together nervously and folds her hands.
She looks so different when her true nature comes out, what she truly wants. She wants me. She wants this to be more. I know she puts on that act of being sassy and confident, like she’s okay with us just fucking around. But I know she’s not.
“No,” I answer. Disappointment clouds her bright baby blues.
“What about tomorrow? Can I see you then?” She reaches up and touches my jaw. It’s supposed to be a tender gesture of affection, but I feel nothing, and she mustn’t feel for me either.
“Maybe…” I step away from her, and her hand falls to her side.
This is the part where I should end this. It’s nothing. Not for me, and it can’t be. I don’t feel what she wants me to feel for her, and I won’t go down that road again.
I am danger. I am death.
Death is what follows me. I was born with death encoded in my DNA. It follows me, and I exact it.
“Vincent, I like seeing you. We have fun together.” She gives me a nervous smile and her eyes beg me for what I can’t give her. “Please try to—”
I hold up my hand and stop her. “Don’t. Don’t fall for me sweetheart. I can’t be with you that way.”
