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“I need assurances,” I countered.
“I will tell my men to ignore the bounty for Alexandrea,” Vincenzo promised. “You have my word.”
I tapped my platinum and onyx serpent ring on the desk to steady my nerves. “Adriano?”
“Agreed.”
The other men on the phone muttered similar responses.
“I’ll have an update on the Russians within the next twenty-four hours,” Vincenzo said before he dropped off the line.
After everyone hung up, I felt like I was sitting there with my dick in my hand. My mistakes were costing me a fortune. And if I didn’t find the men who wanted Alex in time, they would take something more valuable than money from me.
“That went well,” Marcello deadpanned.
“I feel like I’ve just had a root canal and a colonoscopy at the same time.” I raked a hand through my hair. “Fuck, that was brutal. I’m going to owe favors to the Five Families for the next decade.”
“We don’t have a choice,” he confirmed. “Even Dad thinks this is the best move. Until we replace the Knights we’ve lost over the past few months, we need help from our allies.”
Some of our family’s power came from the help of our associates. I hated we needed them to find the Russians and whoever else was vying for the bounty on Alex’s head. But none of our attempts to locate the bastards had proven successful.
Marcello leaned forward in his chair, his shoulders slumped. We were all tired but not yet defeated. “You should call Dante. Let our cousins get involved with the bounty.”
I shook my head. “Not yet. Let’s see how this pans out with the other families. Besides, Dante and his brothers are in the middle of their own war.”
“They’re family, Luca.”
Dante Luciano was the new head of the Atlantic City crime family. He was my cousin on my mother’s side. They had gotten into the casino business over thirty years ago, around the time my father started building Salvatore Global.
“We have all the family we need right now,” I assured him as I shot up from my desk and walked over to the screen on the left wall. “Once Alex accepts my proposal and becomes our queen, we will have more bargaining chips at our disposal.”
He moved beside me and placed his hand on my shoulder. “We need Wellington’s black book.”
“I know,” I said with my eyes on the security feeds. “So you better do your best to convince Alex that marrying me is her only option.”
“You could try being nicer to her,” he shot back. “Ever think of that, dickhead?”
I snapped my head at him, nostrils flared. “Nice? What the fuck is wrong with you, Marcello? That girl doesn’t want nice from me. She has you for that.” I got in his face, our noses so close they could touch. “Our queen wants to dance with the Devil, and I plan to drag her back to Hell with me.”
He crossed his arms over his chest, returning his gaze to the security monitors. “I know what she wants, Luca. You gotta trust me.”
“I do trust you. But you need to trust that I know how to handle our girl. What she thinks shewantsis not what sheneeds.”
“She doesn’t need any more of your cruelty. After what she’s been through in the last twenty-four hours, she’s teetering on the edge. One more push, and her sanity will snap like a twig. I’m telling you right now, Luca. Don’t try to break her or bend her to your will. She’s too close to having an episode. I barely got her into that storm drain without her losing it.”
“You didn’t seem to think she was ready to break when you fucked her on our way home.” I turned up my eyebrows at him. “I don’t recall you giving a fuck about her sanity each time you slammed your cock into her pussy when you should have head your head in the fucking game.”
He tipped his head back and laughed. “You’re just jealous. Fuck her already, you miserable bastard. Once you do, you won’t be so fucking uptight.”
“I’m not touching her. Not until it’s time.”
“Stop planning every second of your life. It’s fucking stupid. Bash is right. You need to live a little.”
I shot daggers at him, my anger seething through me. “Who are you to judge my decisions? You spend most of your time watching Alex on the security feeds and jerking off to her.”
He clenched his teeth. “No. I. Fucking. Don’t.”
“You forget I see everything that goes on inside and outside of this house. There’s nothing any of you can hide from me. Damian and Bash and their sick and twisted shit. You and your obsession with Alex. I see it all.”
