Page 33 of Fire with Fire

Everyone suffered. It was a universal truth. But there were only two responses to pain: you either became someone who inflicted it or you learned to see it, to feel it, in others.

He didn’t have a moment’s doubt that Aria fell into the latter category.

As much as he didn’t want to see her hurt — and he was still honest enough with himself to admit that he didn’t, even if he wasn’t ready to ask himself why — the action Primo had taken against the women and children of the Franklin Street shelter couldn’t go unchallenged.

Primo had sent a message: anything was fair game.

That meant Damian would have to speed up their strategy, expand the targets, hit Fiore anywhere and everywhere.

He looked around at the crying women, the children staring wide-eyed at the fire. They needed him, and that took priority over everything. He would make sure they were settled at the Greenwich property he’d planned to use as an investment.

Then he would make one last appeal to Aria Fiore before he destroyed her brother.

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