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I went back and studied the coding she embedded into the Ireland-based banking system. If she’s telling the truth, and I don’t have any reason to not believe her after watching her while she backed me out of the system, then she’s on a whole different level than Krishna and me.
The one thing I do know for sure is that I cannot allow her near a computer or even a smartphone. There’s no telling the damage she could cause should she get her hands on any electronic device.
Picking up the glass of amber liquid in front of me, I take a sip of the chilled whiskey, the ice clinking together in the glass as someone perches themselves next to me.
“If you really don’t want to go through with the wedding tomorrow, I’ll stand behind you,” Ren says.
“We already hashed this out,” I tell him, setting the glass down on the counter of the bar.
None of us had to get fitted for suits being as my sister just got married last weekend. The only thing I requested was that their shirts be black, though there’s a nagging thought way back in my head that I shouldn’t be making it more like a funeral than holy matrimony. Then again, it’s not that either since the wedding will occur at Dad’s house instead of a church like my sister’s.
Although, there will be the commencement of marriage afterward. I’m at least doing that part right.
It’s the rest that I cannot allow.
I vowed never to fall in love, and I aim to keep that promise to myself.
What transpired this morning needed to happen. It cleared some of the fog Ciera had created when I watched her come between Krishna and me three days ago. It’s all I’ve thought about since. What I’ve wanted to make happen again, and I will, but now I’ll part her thighs and enter her heat knowing she’s the enemy. Changing her last name doesn’t dissolve that fact.
“Right,” he says. “Dad wanted revenge, but Giovanni handled that. He took his retribution hours ago. The score should be settled.”
“Dad wants to take the city back.” I turn my head so that our eyes lock. “We’re taking Fitzgerald’s daughter, then we’re taking his money, his property, and finally, their lives. The score isn’t settled until we wipe out their existence, brother.”
“Does that include your bride? Because I don’t see the point in marrying her if you plan to kill her. Besides, she doesn’t act like the rest of them. She fits in with us,” he remarks.
“She cooked you two meals, Ren, now you simply accept her? Really? You don’t even know her.Idon’t know her. She could easily be planning our demise the same as we’re doing to her family. Don’t fall for her shit, Lorenzo.”
“I’m not falling for anything. I’ve been watching her while she’s been with Sasha and Sienna all day. I’ve seen nothing to lead me to believe she’s a bad person or has ill intentions toward us or anyone else.”
“How? Where did Sienna take them?”
Pulling his cell phone from his pocket, he opens the device. In less than a minute, he hands it over to me. I take it, seeing he has video surveillance pulled up from the indoor shooting range Dad owns.
“They’re teaching her to shoot?”
“Earlier, they were showing her how to wield a blade. Before that, it was basic self-defense. I’ve watched a lot of the footage. Her facial expressions never changed, not even when Si and Sasha’s eyes weren’t on her. She genuinely looks like she’s having fun, and that’s the first time all week she hasn’t looked like someone Dad kidnapped. Her guard’s been down while she’s been with the girls.”
“Or she’s pretending to have fun. Ever think of that?” I ask.
“I was taught to read people just like you were, Dom. Sheishaving fun, and so are Si and Sasha. Maybe they needed her to break up the tension between them. She could be good for us, for you, maybe even Krishna too.”
I bark out a laugh, the first one today. “Are you actually suggesting a poly relationship between the three of us? Mom would roll over in her grave, Ren.”
“Mom would want you to be happy, the same as Sienna and me.”
“I killed Sienna’s stepdaughter’s mother, or have you forgotten? That’s going to be a problem one day. You’re having a baby with a woman who was pretending she wasn’t married to you six weeks ago.” I cock an eyebrow. “Happiness is an illusion, Ren. The sooner you stop living in make-believe and join reality the better off all of us will be.”
“I’m not the one in denial. You seem to think you’re impervious to love, yet for whatever reason, you and Krishna can’t stay away from each other. I’ve also seen the way you look at Ciera. You want her the same as you do him. K even wants her like he wants you. You’re falling the same as we did. You just refuse to admit it.”
Without waiting for a reply, he pushes off the bar and walks away from me, leaving me to shove everything his tongue vomited to the far corners of my mind.
He’s wrong.
I’m not falling for either of them. Iliketo fuck one of them andwantto fuck the other. Neither are equal to love, nor anything even close to that ugly four-letter word.
It’ll be a cold day in Hell before I sayI love youto Krishna or Ciera.
I’ll kill them both before I let myself fall down that pit of sorrow.
