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She drew a cigarette from a pack and put it between her lips. The lighter’s flame kept blowing out, even when she covered it with her other hand. The wind played with her hair, and I took a deep breath as she looked toward my car.
“Sir, do you have a light?” she called toward me from across the parking lot.
I looked back at Lorenzo, and he offered me a sly smirk.Too easy.“Sure, yeah! Come on over,” I yelled toward her, and she made her way across the parking lot, her hips swaying beneath her long jacket. The smoke billowed from the car as I lowered the window further.
“Smells like you have something better to smoke.” She leaned on my door with a soft smile.
“Want some?” I pulled the roach from a small ashtray in my center console, took a deep drag, and handed it to her. She pulled the cigarette away from her mouth and tucked it behind her ear. I couldn’t keep my eyes off her lips as she inhaled and blew the smoke into the air above her head.Her lips are...I shook my head.
Two of my fingers raised between the front seats, gesturing toward Lorenzo. He got out of the car, and Gia dropped the roach to the ground.
“I don’t want any trouble.” Her hand instinctively reached into her jacket to grab her pistol.
“Interesting, because you asked for exactly that.” I smirked as Lorenzo wrapped his palm around her mouth and yanked her against his body.
Despite the large hand stifling her voice, she released a scream. The car beeped as I opened the door and stepped onto the pavement. As I taped her wrists behind her, her eyes glossed with welling tears, but she would never let them fall. That wasn’t how Gia was.
I reached within the cold fabric of her coat to disarm her, my hand hovering on her hip. “You won’t be needing that,” I said as the pistol found a new home in the back of my waistband. Silver flashed in my hand as I pulled a roll of tape from the floorboard and ripped off a piece to put over her mouth. Her nostrils flared.
Lorenzo chuckled as he threw her into the backseat of the SUV. “You made this quite easy. We didn’t even have to come to you.”
I returned to the driver's seat, started the engine, and raised the tinted windows. No one could see inside. Only once we left the innards of the city did I gesture for Lorenzo to remove the tape. The moment it left her mouth, the car was filled with a flurry of curse words. Lorenzo moved to put the tape back over her mouth, but I lifted my hand.
“Let her get it out of her system.”
I expected nothing less from Giovanna Silvani as I stared at her smudged lipstick and crazed eyes in the rearview mirror. She looked like an animal caught in a snare. Maybe she was.
“You motherfuckers! I would have come willingly! Now I’m just pissed right the fuck off!” She screamed and kicked at my seat.
“We don’t half ass things in this family. I was told to abduct you, so I abducted you.”
“Did they not tell you this isstaged? It’s fake!” Each word snapped at the end.
“I don’t ask questions,” I said with a shrug of my shoulders.
“Maybe you should start,” she hissed as she struggled against the restraints on her wrists.
As we arrived at the end of the long driveway leading up to the house, Lorenzo placed the tape over her mouth again. I could still hear her yell, “Fuck you!” beneath the tape, and I couldn’t help but smirk. Once I put the car in park, Lorenzo pulled Gia toward the end of the seat and threw her over his broad shoulders. She struggled against Lorenzo’s grasp as his hand rose to caress her ass, and her mouth continued to release muffled noises that altered the night’s quiet ambiance.
We carried her past the marbled halls and into a back bedroom. Lorenzo dropped her onto the bed, and I knelt in front of her as a look of recognition flashed on her face once she saw me in the light of the room. I was surprised she didn’t recognize me sooner. Eyes this blue weren’t common in our families. As she writhed against the restraints, I caressed her cheek before ripping the tape off in a quick motion.
“Fuck!” she shouted.
“I’m Enzo,” I said as I pulled a knife from my belt and began to cut the tape from her slender wrists.
“I know who you are,” she snapped.
“You remember me?”
“Now I do. You’re lucky I wasn’t a better shot back then.” The tape broke open and she rubbed her wrists.
“Our families have been fighting since before we were born, and here you are, pitting us against your own at a time of peace.” My gaze dropped as I brushed a hand through my dark hair.
“There’s no peace between our families.”
“You may think that way, but your father had reached out to us for business. We were nearly allies.” A smile crept across my face. “That will all go to shit once he finds out what we did to his dear daughter.” My hand brushed through her damp hair.
“Can we?” Lorenzo asked as he unzipped his fly.
