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“How much did you owe them?”
“Five grand. Why?”
Fuck, I’m going to fucking implode in about ten seconds. “Five grand. You gave them your sister for five grand?”
“I didn’t —”
Before he can finish his sentence, I shove my fingers into his mouth, holding his tongue still as I press my thumb under his chin. “You want to know why I spend so much time fucking your sister, Leo?”
He makes a garbled sound as he stares at me with fearful eyes.
“Because she’s my wife now, you dumb fuck.”
“N-nuh.” He tries to shake his head, but I keep a firm grip on his jaw.
“Yes. My wife. Mother of my unborn child. She is my fucking everything. And she was your sister. You should have protected her. I gave you the chance to redeem yourself a little, but once again, you handed her over to a monster to save your own skin.”
Tears trail down his cheeks as he mumbles incoherently, but I get the gist — he’s begging for his life. I wonder how much she begged those animals he handed her over to.
“If I told you how she still screams in the middle of the night, haunted by what those sick fucks did to her, and how I have to hold her until she falls back to sleep because the sound of her crying splits my goddamn heart in two, would that give you any idea of the ways in which I’m about to make you suffer? Because I want you to know, Leo. I want you to be fully aware that I am about to inflict the kind of pain on you that will make even Maximo struggle to hold back his lunch.”
He’s gagging harder now, choking on his own spit and snot as he cries. “Seems like your sister got the looks and the balls, huh?” I snarl at him before I let him go, pushing him to the floor before I take off my jacket.
“But your pop…” He sniffs, wiping the saliva from his chin. “I offered him the money back, but he didn’t take it. He said she would be enough.”
I look at Maximo whose frown mirrors my own.What the fuck did he just say?I grab a handful of Leo’s hair and yank his head back so I can look him in the eye. “What did you just say about my father?”
“He caught me cheating, man. He gave me a kicking and I gave him his money back, but he wanted more than that, so I told him about Kat and what had happened before. I thought maybe he might be into the same kind of thing. Then he told me we were square. If I gave her to him, he would give me back the money and then we’d call it quits.”
My free hand is clenched into a fist, and I have to hold myself back from smashing it into his face. “Why are you telling me this now and not as soon as I walked in here?”
“I knew he’d come for me one day. I was supposed to meet him the next morning at Kat’s house because she worked nights at that government building. He said he’d hand over the money if I handed her over. But I’m not stupid, man. He could have just taken her anyway. He wanted me there so he could kill me. So I took off. I thought you knew this already?”
I glare at the piece of shit on the floor as I try to make sense of this information. “You didn’t even try to warn her?”
“I was terrified. I left her a note, but I had no time to get to her. She doesn’t even have a cell phone.”
“But why did my father want your sister? And if she was so important to him, why did he send me for her?”
Leo trembles. “If I tell you what I know, will you let me go?”
“Not a fucking chance in hell. But I could make your death less painful and right now I can assure you that you’re going to want me to do that. Now tell me why the fuck was my father so interested in Kat?”
“He wasn’t. Not at first anyway. Not until I told him about Elmo and Tony and how they’d taken her as payment for a debt before. Then he started asking me all kinds of questions like when it happened. I mean, he wanted specific dates and everything. It was like he remembered something, but all of a sudden, he was more interested in her than me.”
“So he just let you go? Just like that? Because you told him about Kat’s attack? You expect me to believe that?”
“He let me leave because the club next door was closing and it was getting kind of busy. But he had no intention of letting me go.”
“So you bailed on your sister and left her for Salvatore Moretti?”
He glares at me. “It’s not like I thought he was going to kill her. He seemed really eager to meet her. At worst, I thought it would be a similar deal to last time.”
“When she was raped and tortured for days?” My head feels like it’s about to explode with holding it together instead of kicking this sick fuck to death.
“Kat is strong. Way stronger than me. I knew she’d be okay.”
“Well, you got one thing right,” I say as I start rolling up my sleeves.
