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"And you are telling us this now?" I arch an eyebrow.
"Had to make sure that I could trust you, first."
"Don't trust him, Capo," Luca growls. He grabs a few more firearms for Massimo, then turns and marches off after Christian.
JJ grabs the guns and arms himself, then turns to me, "Follow me."
I hold his gaze, trying to read the expression on his face. Next to me, Beauty shifts her feet, while Seb glares at JJ, before turning to me. "You going to trust this motherfucker, boss?"
I scowl at JJ, then nod, "Lead the way."
Five minutes later, we are in the room next to the library, and surprise—we used a hidden door from the armory that had a staircase that led directly up to this room.
"The walls are made of reinforced cement, and the windows," he jerks his chin toward the panes "are made of reinforced glass."
"You have a regular Fort Knox here," I say mildly.
"Never can be too prepared in our line of business." He shoves his gun in the opening between the panes.
Seb follows suit, and so do I.
Karma hunkers down behind me, that same distant look on her face. The one that makes my gut churn every time I glance at her. I want to talk to her, to reassure her that everything will be okay. That I will not let anything happen to her. I reach for her, and that’s when the first shots ring out.
Seb returns fire, as does JJ.
The shots die away. In the silence that follows, my phone buzzes. I put it on speaker, “Massimo?"
"There’s an entire group of them." He speaks rapidly from his perch up on the top floor of the house. Along with Christian and Antonio, he’d headed there to take stock of how many people we’re up against. Additionally, they were going to try to take down as many as they could from their vantage point. "I count at least fifteen men surrounding the house and closing in on the grounds," he adds.
"Fuck," Luca swears from the other side of Karma. I had asked her to stay in the corridor, out of the line of fire, but is the woman having any of that? Of course, not. In this, she was as adamant as ever. She’d insisted that she’d be here with me. When I had protested, she’d said that she felt safer with me. And how could I argue with her after that?
JJ stiffens on the other side of me. "This would be a good time to have more of my men," he mutters.
I growl.
He raises a shoulder, "Not putting the blame on you for offing them. It’s merely a fact that we need more men on our side."
In their zeal to get through to us, Seb had gunned down JJ’s men. The only people who remain are the household staff, and JJ had instructed them to stay in the kitchen and not come out. They had been more than happy to oblige us. Not that I blame them. It’s going to get a lot uglier here before it gets better.
"You sure you don’t want to join the rest of the household staff?" I ask Karma.
She shoots me a scathing glance, "And leave you here on your own?"
"I am quite good at surviving tricky situations."
"This time, I am going to be with you every step of the way."
I glance into her green eyes that are dilated…with fear? With the adrenaline of the fight. Her lips part and my cock thickens.
"I don’t want to sully your hands with blood," I murmur. "You don’t have to do this, Beauty."
"But I do." She stares back, "I want to see what it is about fighting with a gun that gives you such a hard-on, Capo."
"Nothing and no one gives me a hard-on as much as you, Beauty."
Seb groans next to me, "Can you guys keep it down? Some of us here are trying to focus on not getting killed."
Karma flushes, then rises to her feet to peek through the windows.
