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I clamp my hand over her mouth, cutting her off. There’s one thing I know for sure. “I don’t want to hear a word from your lying lips again. Whoever you are, you are nothing to me, and I’ll see to it you pay for everything you’ve done.”
Her tears roll over the back of my hand, but I ignore them because they’re probably all for show. Just as they always were.
“I should have killed you,” I whisper in her ear, relishing the way she shudders, the muffled sounds of her sobs. “You are going to pay for this. If it takes years, I’m going to see to it that you pay.”
And then, because I can’t stand being this close to her, I shove her in the direction of the nearest guard. “Get her upstairs. Lock her in the bedroom. I’ll deal with her later.”
“No, please!” she screams as he takes hold of her. She trips over her dress, and I hear it ripping, and the sound pleases me. She doesn’t deserve to wear it. “Enzo, please, you know this isn’t right!”
“Don’t you say a fucking word to me about what’s right and what isn’t,” I snap. “Don’t you say another word to me unless you’re answering a direct question, you scheming little bitch.”
“But I love you! I love you! Don’t do this!”
I hold up a hand, and they come to a stop while I walk slowly toward them. She’s shaking, tearstained, her hair hanging in tangles around her face, Grandfather’s blood on her dress. My grandfather’s blood. My family’s blood.
“If I believed you—which I don’t, by the way—it wouldn’t matter,” I inform her. “Do you want to know the saddest part about all of this? So sad, it’s almost funny?”
She shakes her head, quietly sobbing, tears dripping onto her tits. I should have carved them up when I had the chance.
“I love you, too.” Hope washes over her face, lighting up her eyes. “But I’m going to have to kill you, anyway.”
I take dark, twisted pleasure in the broken sob that tears its way from her a moment before I nod, signaling her removal from my presence. The sound of her heartbreak is a twisted symphony that plays in my head long after the sound fades away.
Leaving me standing alone with my grandfather’s body and my family’s entire future on my shoulders.
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