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“We moved operations outside of the city.”
“We?”
His nostrils flare as he glares at me. “Dominik Pushkin.”
“For fuck’s sake. You’re working with the Russians?”
“I didn’t have much choice when you killed Jimmy and his entire family,” he retorts.
“You’ve still not forgiven me for that, Pop? And now I know why. I could never fathom why you were so pissed at us for wiping out a family of scum who made their money trafficking innocent women and kids. Kidnapping them to order for the highest bidder.” I spit the words out like they leave a bad taste in my mouth. “Is that what happened to Megan?”
He blinks in confusion again. Sick fuck doesn’t even remember her name.
“The girl from the coffee shop? Lorenzo and I thought you killed her, but you took her, didn’t you? Was she just another order to fulfil?”
His scowl confirms I’m right. “You think what you do is any better? We are purveyors of misery, Dante. That is our calling. Our legacy. There is no escaping it. Do not look down your nose at me for choosing to make money in a different way, because we are exactly the same.”
I punch him square in the jaw, and his head snaps back before he spits blood from his mouth and goes on glaring at me.
“I am nothing like you, you sick, twisted fuck. I have never killed a man who didn’t deserve it. And I would never hurt a woman or a kid.”
“What about Nicole?” He sneers.
“Nicole?”
“Yes. Your fiancée. The one you had slaughtered along with her brothers.”
“Did you know what Jimmy and those boys used to do to her?”
He shrugs. “What men do in the privacy of their own home is their business, not mine.”
“And what you did in the privacy of my home. Whose business is that, Pop?”
He blinks at me.
“You don’t think I know you raped Nicci too? You don’t think she told me about that?”
He smirks at me. He fucking smirks. I shoot his other kneecap, and he wails in agony before he starts cursing me again.
“Did you know you knocked her up too?”
That gets his attention. He spits more blood from his mouth. “So you killed her baby too. Your own sibling?” he hisses. “You are just like me,ragazzo.”
“Nope. You see, I never killed her. Nicci and your son are alive and well.”
“My son?”
“Yeah. He’s a cute kid. Looks a lot like Joey actually. But he will never know a goddamn thing about the monster who spawned him. Nicci and I will make sure of that.”
“You been keeping secrets from me too.” He laughs maniacally.
The pain’s making him delirious. He never could handle it. Not the way he taught Lorenzo and me too.
“Plenty, Pop. So from now on, I’m going to be completely honest. I’m going to kill you. You like to tell me that I’m weak, but protecting people who can’t stand up for themselves isn’t weak. As long as I’m still willing to kill a man who is a danger to the only people I love, I don’t care who thinks I’m weak or merciful. And that’s what I’m going to do, Pop. I’m going to look you in the eyes when I shoot you in the head. Then I’m going make it look like someone forced their way in here and I’m going to pin your murder on Dominik. Once the heads of the Bratva families find out what trade he’s been plying these past years, they’ll be happy to hang him out to dry.
I press the barrel of my gun against his forehead.
“You don’t have the b —” he starts, but I pull the trigger, splattering his brain matter on the back of his cream leather sofa.
