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For the first time, I was grateful to Lorenzo. He’d made me this way. He’d made me the monster who was going to save Raven and my brother, and bring Berlusconi to his knees, and anyone stupid enough to try to stand in my way.
Dominic nodded. “What’s your plan?”
“We go in dark, and we go in silent. We take down everything that breathes along the way. Everything. No man left standing to give Berlusconi the heads-up. If anyone has any qualms about that, now’s the time to walk away.”
Dominic and the youngest one—Leo, I thought—nodded, but Dante’s eyes were troubled. “Killing isn’t exactly quiet. They’ll know we’re here in three seconds flat.”
I smiled. “No,amico, they won’t.”
I popped my trunk and my eyes grazed over the racks that held not just guns, but knives. Lots and lots of knives.
Very quiet knives.
Chapter Forty-Three
Raven
My heart was pounding.
I could feel my pulse all the way to my fingertips.
But it was the bitter taste of betrayal that stood out above everything else.
“I tried to warn you,signorina.” He stood right in front of me, but I still couldn’t believe my eyes. “I told you, didn’t I, that your past was best left alone?”
“The past is the past for a reason. It’s meant to stay behind you, not lead you,”he’d said.
Those words were the reason I’d abandoned my stupid plan to use Nico and his family. I’d never imagined they were words of warning.
“Tommaso? I don’t understand?” The words came out strangled, little more than a whisper. He still looked just like the intuitive man behind the bar at Onyx. His hair slicked back. His outdated suit.
“Don’t you?” He reached down and ran his fingers along my cheek.
I batted his fingers away, then wished I’d left them where they were and bitten them off instead.
Hetsk-ed me and stood back. “I tried to help you, Sofia. Your brother was so distracted looking for you, I told Diego we didn’t need you.”
“Indeed, you did,” Diego’s voice came from far too close.
He was right behind me. His hands reached under my arms and dragged me up onto my feet.
“Let me go,” I demanded, trying to shake him off.
“Leave her the hell alone,” Gabe hissed. He’d shot to his feet, but as he took a swing at Diego, Tommaso yanked him back.
“Calm down, Gabriel.” Diego chuckled as he moved around me until he stood right in front of me. “SignorinaLuca and I are merely having a chat, aren’t we?”
I pressed my lips together and glared at him.
“Tommaso thought we didn’t need you, but I wasn’t so sure.” He leaned in close until his lips were just a hair’s breadth from my ear. “To be honest, I didn’t care. You’re much too enticing of a prize to pass up,” he whispered, making my whole body shudder in revulsion.
He was too close.
I could feel the warmth of his body radiating in the small space between us, but it only made me colder.
I started to pull my arm away, at least as far as the chain attached to my wrist would allow, but then I stopped.
If I was handcuffed to the post, then reasonably, there had to be a key to the handcuffs.
