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She smacked me. “They won’t kill you now.”
“They could. They might. You don’t know those men downstairs, they’ve killed their own; nothing could keep them from killing me if they chose to, nothing.”
“Wrong.” She sat up and grinned. “Because now you have the long-lost sister of the Petrov-Sinacore line, so just give me the signal if I need to move to stand in front of you.”
I laughed. “And what’s your signal?”
“All you have to do is look at me, and I’ll know.”
I was in deep shit.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
“Once in the racket you’re always in it.” —Al Capone
Katya
As quick as possible, I put on a pair of baggy black sweats, flip-flops, a matching black sweatshirt and tied my hair back. I ran back into Santino’s room, he was ready too. Torn jeans and a black T-shirt with two guns tucked into said jeans.
“Why are you armed?”
He frowned up at me like I was clueless. “I’m always armed.”
“But this is family,” I pointed out. “Nobody’s going to die in the house tonight, I promise.”
His stare said it all: thathewould.
“Yeah, don’t make promises you can’t keep. I just hope you know how to stitch up gunshot wounds.”
“Gunshot wounds?”
I went from being abandoned, losing more than everything, to this, and yet why did they feel safer?
“Come on.” He grabbed my hand and led me down the stairs slowly.
At the bottom, Phoenix waited, his short dark hair made his eyes look more menacing. He had a pistol in his right hand and a knife in his left.
Nobody was in the living room.
This wasn’t good.
I gripped Santino’s hand tighter. The ring on his left finger, with the Sinacore crest, was pressing itself into my skin, branding himself onto me.
“This way.” Phoenix had exactly zero expression on his face. It didn’t help he was in full Grim Reaper mode as if to mess with me with his black suit. He calmly walked down the hall and toward the basement. My eyes widened when he opened the door. “Go on in.”
“Are you coming?” I asked.
His grin was pure evil. “Wouldn’t miss it for the world.”
“Great,” Santino muttered under his breath. “Just great.”
“It’s going to be fine,” I said out loud.
Phoenix’s dark chuckle behind me wasn’t comforting at all.
We walked down the stairs we had before to go to the training rooms and passed both, then came to one at the end of the hall, the door was metal. Phoenix moved in front of us and unlatched it, then held it open. “After you.”
We both stumbled into pure darkness and looked around.
