Page 165 of Fortress of the Heart


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He does so, and Vladimir spits blood out onto the floor, narrowly missing my shoe.

He swears at us in Russian and tells me that he’ll find me and kill me.

I shake my head.I don’t think so, sunshine. Your days are numbered.

“Tell us what you did,” I state calmly. “And you will be spared a long and torturous death.”

“I already told the big guy,” he spits angrily. “I was being bribed…”

Angelo flicks his favorite blade and cuts him across the cheek. The wound isn’t deep, but blood spurts everywhere.

“Fuck!” he swears, squirming in the chair.

“Now,” Angelo begins, turning the nearby chair around and sitting down on it. “That was just a little taste of what’s to come. If you want to see what you look like without your balls hanging, then I suggest no more lies, pretty boy.”

His eyes go wide. “Okay…okay…I admit that I knew what was going down with the smuggling. A friend of a friend was involved in spiking girls’ drinks at clubs, and they’d take them randomly. They had a quota, and it was good money.”

I shake my head. “You’re not just friends with scumbags like this, you’re actually one of them.”

He shakes his head. “I didn’t do anything!” he cries.

Angelo looks to Rocco and gives him one nod.

Rocco swings a hammer to one kneecap, and even I have to look away.

The cries ring out through the building as he almost passes out with the pain.

“You took her to make her pay because you knew that she wasn’t going to go through with the marriage, didn’t you?” I throw at him. “You couldn’t stand that Katiya wouldn’t give in to your charms, so you wanted to make her suffer for it!”

“No!” he cries, his eyes closing and opening several times. Tears and sweat drip down his face. “I just wanted to scare her. She was never going to get shipped with the other cargo. I was supposed to be the one to rush in and rescue her until you fuckfaces showed up and ruined it.Ishould’ve been her fucking hero.Me!Not fucking you! That wasn’t the plan.”

My eyes go wide.Is he fucking kidding me?

I’m on him in seconds, choking him by the neck as I scream, “I’ll fucking kill you! You locked her up tied, battered, and bruised for a whole week, you son of a fucking bitch! What the fuck is wrong with you?”

Angelo and Enzo pull me off him as I step back, shoving them off me as I pace.

“He can’t live,” I say, cracking my neck from side to side. I point at Angelo. “You saw the girls. You saw what they did to them!”

He places a hand on my shoulder. “Calm down, Marco, this is where mistakes are made.”

“I want him to suffer.”

“And suffer he shall.” Angelo turns to him. “I think it’s time you had a chat with your future father-in-law, don’t you, Vladimir?”

His eyes go wide.

I have to walk away. If I don’t, I’ll leap over them and fucking choke him again.

My beautiful Katiya. Chained up and starved because this fucking asshole wanted to be her rescuer? What kind of fucked up shit is that? Not to mention Mia, she was there a lot longer.

Bile rises in my throat at how terrified they would have been.

I pick up the phone. “Aleksi?” I bark.

“I’m here.”

“I’m sending you a car. You may bring one guard.”

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