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My favorite bardowntown was ours. Well, one of ours. Ice cubes swirled around as I circled my rocks glass on the slick tabletop. It left a wet streak behind, following the path of my motion. The golden liquid reflected the bulb of light above it. I spun around in my chair and looked at the bar. Most of the patrons were one of us, and the rest were women who wanted to be with us.
The door swung open and in walked the force on heels that I neither expected nor wanted to see. Her dark eyes scanned the bar before she spotted me. Like a missile locked on its target, she made her way over to me. There wouldn’t be anything to block her path.
“Hey,” she said as she sat beside me.
“Ms. Bianchi.”
“You can call me Senna.” Her lips tightened.
Senna Bianchi was Bullseye’s sister. They looked nothing alike, having come from different mothers, but both were crazy. She was small and had dark hair, but I could see the halo of red in the strands beneath the cool lights. She had Bullseye’s wide-set nose, but those full lips definitely came from her mother. She always kept them pinched, making her look mean as fuck. She wasn’t unattractive—quite the contrary—but she’d grab you by the balls and twist if she could get close enough.
“Enzo, you worked closely with my brother?”
Stay calm,I reminded myself. I never felt fear after a hit—or any murder, really—but I rarely had to sit beside the family of the deceased and lie to their face. “Yeah,” I said, swirling my finger around the rim of the glass.
“I’m guessing you haven’t heard from him, either?”
“Nah, I was out of the city for a while. He became a ghost while I was gone.”
Senna ordered a drink, asking the bartender for whatever I was having. He came back and set down a clone of my drink.
Her eyes dropped to the sticky black tabletop. “Our soldiers found pieces of his dismantled car.”
What she was saying made my heart skip a few beats, but I kept my eyes locked on the glass. “Why are you telling me this?”
She turned toward me and let her dark eyes pour into mine. “I want you to help me find out who killed him.” She put her hand on my thigh. “Please.”
She was looking her brother’s murderer right in the eyes. Her hand was on the thigh of his killer.
I batted her hand away. “You don’t know he’s dead, Senna.” I did.
“I know it. I can feel it. He wouldn’t just leave.”
“Things have been getting hot for most of us. Maybe he ghosted for a little while until things cooled down.”
“My brother didn’t run. He’d stay and fight.”
That was true. In all my years of knowing Bullseye, he ain’t ever ran.
“Come on, Enzo. You have the biggest eye on the city now. Can you at least keep it open?”
The way she looked at me, desperate and pleading, made me want to agree, even though I knew he wasn’t ever going home. “I’ll keep an eye out, Senna, but I got my own shit to watch.”
Her eyes relaxed as she drew out a cigarette and lit it. I watched her mouth, how it wrapped around the filter. Her cheeks sucked in as she inhaled the smoke.
“Can I have one?” I asked. Without looking at me, she pulled out the box and let me slip one out. She slid the lighter across the table. “I’ll do what I can, Senna.”
Her eyes jumped to mine. “That’s all I ask,” she said with a pinched smile. “Where’s that Silvani girl?”
“We ain’t together anymore.”
A smile crossed her lips. “Why not? What’d you do?”
I shook my head and blew out smoke. “I didn’t do anything. ShethoughtI fucked with another woman.”
Senna’s eyebrows lifted. “You’re one of the most faithful men in the city.” Her lip twitched. “You weren’t always like that, though. Remember when you used to say as long as it was just mouths and hands, it wasn’t cheating?” She smirked at me.
I was young and stupid when I thought that, and Senna was once another woman. I fucked around on an old girlfriend with her, but I stuck to my mouth and hands and let her suck my dick at the club while I made her come with my fingers. It was so long ago that I’d nearly forgotten.
