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She shook her head. “I’m not going anywhere with you!”
“You can come willingly, Giovanna, or I will take you by force. Your choice,” I said calmly, placing a hand on my revolver.
“Fuck off. If you try to force me, I’ll yell for the guards.”
“If you yell for them, their deaths will be on you.”
I grabbed her arm, and she tightened her lips as she stared at me, shooting daggers from her beautiful eyes. I didn’t care how mad she was at me, as long as she was alive.
“What about my family?” Gia asked as she shrugged out of my grasp to grab some clothes.
“They don’t want your family, Gia. They want you. Now hurry the fuck up!”
“Are we going back to your house?” she asked, stuffing her clothes into a bag.
“No, we aren’t,” I said, hiding the sadness from her. My house could never be my home again. Nothing would be the same after what I planned to do.
“You left Atheist?” she asked with raised eyebrows.
“Fuck no, I ain’t leaving that dog nowhere. He’s in the car, waiting forus.”
“Fine, let’s go,” Gia said flatly. She looked back at her room one last time.
Nothingwould be the same after this.
ChapterThirty-Two
Gia
Iadjusted my position in the passenger seat. We’d been driving for four hours—in a cramped luxury car, no less. My legs were numb and achy. Worse, Atheist kept hopping onto my lap and hanging his head out the window. His silly expression as his tongue lolled out of his mouth was why I kept allowing it. “Where the hell are we going?”
“Out of the vicinity of the fucking city,” Enzo said.
“Are we literally running away right now?” I groaned as the morning sun attacked my eyes through the windshield. I lowered the visor and looked away from it.
“We aren’t running away. I’m making a conscious decision to get us the fuck out of there right now, okay? Will you stop questioning me?” he said as he snatched down his visor. “You act like I want to be taking you anywhere.”
“Enzo— “
His words overflowed and spilled past his lips. “You betrayed me, Gia. You came into my house and bed. You made me trust you, and it was all based on lies. Wasanyof this real? I let you into my life, I let you into my h—” He banged a fist on the steering wheel. “No, you know what? Fuck this.” He stopped speaking, as if he was trying to keep himself from exploding. I deserved it.
I sat silently, with my gaze on the mile markers as they blazed by us. “I’m sorry,” I said with a deflated breath. “You don’t understand...”
“Of course I fucking do. I understand about family and business, I get that. But you didn’t need to get so cozy with me. Business is fucking business.”
“I’m sorry I hurt you.”
“What is it you always say? Such is this life? Such is this fucking life.” Enzo hit the steering wheel again.
“Why are you the only one who can be hurt? You’ve wanted me since I was carried into your fucking house. How do I know if any of this was real for you? How do I know you felt anything more for me than lust? You pretty much ra—”
“Think carefully before you speak, Gia. Tread very lightly.”
I crossed my arms over my chest and turned away from him.
“Guess we’re back to square one,” he said with a sigh.
We drove in silence for what felt like an eternity before Enzo took a right turn up a driveway. My eyes crawled along the landscape, landing on the well-kept colonial on top of a hill overlooking the woods. It made my jaw drop.
