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“Carmine!” Ari yelled, fighting my hands off of her as she looked around the room. “Cristian!”
“We’re here,” Carmine yelled back, coming forward and brushing off the debris from his body. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” She cried, nodding her head before hugging them both. “I’m so sorry.”
“Shh.” Carmine soothed her, “We’ll talk about all of that later.”
“Capa.” Saul interrupted and knelt over Matteo’s body. Molly held his head in her lap, sobbing as she looked around in a panic.
“Is he alive?” I asked, pulling Ari under my good arm and tucking her face away from the gruesome sight.
Molly nodded and looked up at me with tear-filled eyes. “Barely.”
“Get him out of here,” I ordered Saul. “Get him to the trauma center and keep me updated. Take any other wounded with you.”
“Yes, Capa,” He nodded, sliding Molly out of the way to pick Matteo’s large body up and carry him from the room.
“Go with him,” Ari said, pulling Molly in for a hug. “We’ll be there shortly. Thank you for everything.”
Molly nodded, looking torn between Matteo and Ari but eventually gave in and chased after the man that had been smitten with her for years now.
“Sir.” Luca walked up, holding his rifle in his hands and looking around the room. “There’s some business to attend to.”
My men that stormed the room had the surviving Rosetti men lined up against the wall on their knees. Some were bleeding from fatal wounds and some looked like they’d rather be dead already.
At the beginning of the line, Emilio and Diego knelt next to each other. Emilio had a bullet hole in his leg, bleeding far faster than he deserved, and Diego had a couple in his chest giving him a musical rattle to each breath he took.
“Stay here, Little One.” I kissed her temple but as I went to walk away, her arms tightened around my waist and she clung to me.
“Don’t ask me to let go of you.” She whispered hopefully. “I can’t. Not yet.”
“I’m going to kill many men for you Arianna,” I replied, trying to express the gravity of what was about to occur.
“I want to pull the trigger on my father.” She whispered with her eyes so wide.
“No,” I responded instantly.
“Nico.” She whined. “I’ve earned this.” She squeezed tighter, putting pressure on my broken ribs and making me hiss, but she didn’t let up either. “I survived twenty years of torture because of that man. I’ve earned this.”
I stared down at her, trying to come up with a reason to deny her what she wanted, but came up blank.
“I don’t want that darkness on your shoulders, Little One.”
She just shook her head and looked over at her father where he knelt yelling and begging for mercy. “This will finally blow that darkness off of me, baby.” She looked back up at me. “This is how I get free.”
I clenched my jaw, hating that I knew she was right because I never wanted her touched by any of this world, but conceded. “One bullet. And then we leave.”
“Deal.” She sighed and smiled at me.
“Luca.” I held my hand out over her shoulder and he placed a loaded pistol into it. “Watch how it’s done,” I told Ari, pulling her over to where my father’s illegitimate son knelt next to Emilio.
Even staring death in the face, the bastard smiled with his sick and twisted grin. “You should have taken the opportunity I gave to you when I allowed you to leave Armarow with your life the first time, Diego,” I noted, staring down at him. “But now, not only will I end your life here tonight for your part in all of this. But I’m going to hunt down your sick brothers and your whore of a mother and any other relatives you have left, and I’m going to give them an even worse death than the one you’ve awarded yourself tonight.”
His face turned purple with anger as I lifted the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger, blowing his brains out the back of his skull and all over the wall. I nodded to Luca and the others started executing the others in line, ending the Rosetti revolution on its knees.
Emilio still knelt, begging and pleading to his daughter for mercy as we stood before him, and I watched her for any sign that indicated she wasn’t prepared to handle the weight of the task.
But it never came.
