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She gasps.
“Want to know how to take down a kingdom?” I don’t want her to answer. “You murder the king. After all, I’m learning from the best.” I wink.
“I hate you.”
“No, you don’t. Get up.”
She refuses.
“I will make you.”
Max pops his head in, gaining our attention. “I got bodies to dismantle. Let’s go, children.”
Gia stands, irritating me. She willingly listens to Max and refuses me. “Don’t think I won’t kill my brother. Next time you refuse me but listen to him, I’m going to make you watch me cut off a body part.”
She narrows her eyes but walks without a fuss. My heart is still pounding. My hands want to hurt whoever made her cry. But that fucker is me. I want to make it better but don’t know how. Not without giving up what I’ve been working for. It would be my suicide, and I’m too selfish for that.
Resentment crawls throughmy skin like hundreds of spiders. I scratch at my neck, feeling the invisible little feet. I’m a stupid girl. My selfishness placed me in this situation. If I had just gone home and faced my family, I wouldn’t be held at gunpoint by a fucking Mancini. Who gets kidnapped and doesn’t even realize it? I’m that girl. You could make a TV show out of it, like the I Didn’t Know I was Pregnant one.
Romeo’s glare burns against the crawling on my skin. Both are uncomfortable and unwanted. His hand lands on my back, and he opens the door for me to go into the back of the car. I can only imagine he’s laughing at me with all of his buddies, that Nicoli Rossi’s daughter let him fuck her. Every nerve in my body fights the hurt and betrayal of it. Rationally, I have no right to these feelings. I was using him to forget, but the crush of the truth is still lying deep in my heart.
I was starting to like Romeo. The realization slams into me.
The movement of Romeo’s shoulders has me wanting to turn my head. Out the corner of my eye, his hardened gaze is on me. He looks terrifying. This must be the son of Pierre Mancini. The legacy of the underworld that everyone has forgotten. If they remembered, he wouldn’t be using me to rise back into the power he’s used to having.
“What is your plan for me now?”
“That all depends on you and your behavior.”
A scream wants to rip from my throat, but I lock it away. It’s what I’m used to doing anyway. The knowledge unsettles me. I don’t want to go back to being the old Gia. I no longer want to be silent or have tantrums to get my way.
I move my eyes back to the window as if he didn’t speak at all. An amused chuckle vibrates toward me as he turns back around.
