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Bianco did that, and it took me years to try and get past it. I still bear the scars and consequences.
I’m starting all over again. I’m the thirteen-year-old broken girl who was abused and manipulated. Who needs saving.
I don’t want to need saving.
I just want to be happy.
“This is over,” he tells me with determination. “You’ve been through enough, and I know this is the last thing you want. I know you want to save yourself, be tough, and show all of us that you’re strong enough to do it on your own. Not this time. I’m putting a stop to it.”
His hands tighten around my face. “Rose.” His black, vengeful gaze is poisoning my soul. “I found the Wolves.”
There’s a loud bang in my head. Reality is hitting me hard.
“I’m going to kill the brothers tonight.”
A ringing in my ears.
“And no matter what you want, I’m going to kill Viktor.”
I try to get away from his hold, only he won’t let me. “Let me go!” I shout.
“He’s not a good man, Rose,” he fights back.
“You don’t know that! You don’t know him.”
Reality hits me hard in the face when I realize the real reason I didn’t tell them Viktor had found me. I wanted him to come back again. I wanted to see him, for him to be proud of me, to get in the way. To mess it all up.
Jake was right all along. I was just too blind to see it.
“You don’t know him, either,” he says with a dejection that breaks my heart. “Please, I need you to see that.”
He lets me go and stands up again, taking a few steps back. He runs a hand against his face and shakes his head.
“There’s another reason I’m ending this tonight. I can’t go through with this contract anymore. I want out of it.”
“Why?” I ask in a wobbly voice, sensing another hurricane coming my way. Sam is on a path to purge his soul tonight. He wants to save us both and put an end to the carnage. He doesn’t even wonder if my heart can take it. He’ll fix the damages later.
He looks down at his shoes and back up at me. “Because it was Bianco who hired me.”
I’m a very volatile person. I know that, and so does everyone around me. I fire up at the tiniest spark.
So I understand Sam’s confusion at the fact that I stay mute for several minutes past his revelation.
He’s had time to explain that he initially wanted to refuse the contract but that the money was too good. It was his escape from the job.
He wanted revenge on the men who had taken me. The job itself was perfect. Just not the man giving it to him.
I heard him tell me that Bianco was still involved in his mafia family from prison. That what he wanted to be done; he could always find someone to do it.
But how can I process it?
Mateo Bianco wanted to kill the Volkov brothers for taking his precious girl.
I want to vomit at the idea that he’s still thinking of me from his prison cell. He still wants me for himself, still wants to hurt me, to make me his wife.
And Sam is working with him.
“I understand more than anyone the need to stay silent,” he finally says. “But I have no time to waste. I know where the Volkovs are. Jake managed to turn on the tracker. This is going to end tonight. I know Viktor is coming for you. I need to get to him before he gets to you.”
