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“No,Leo,” I spat back.
His posture straightened.Yes, Lucca. Leo told me more than he should have.
“I will be packing my bag and heading back.”
“No you are not.”
I quickly closed the distance and looked up at his spiteful eyes with balled fists.
“Try me,” my whisper warned.
Lucca smiled and scoffed. “What could possibly make you this…” His head shook with his unfinished sentence.
Upset? Enraged? Fucking furious?
“I don’t know, Lucca, it could be you andyour lies!”
His lips curled, and his chin dipped down. “Lies are for those who fear death. I do neither.”
I held my ground even if his gaze radiated retribution.
“But you have!” My hands flung at my sides.
“What? What have I done?” His temper erupted as his voice raised in outrage. Like a punch, my chest drew back, and my eyes fell away from the bile.
I broke.
“You made me believe you were taking me away to be withme. As if there wasn’t a false motive behind it.”
I couldn’t look at him, not after my voice shook at the end.
“When did I utter such nonsense, Katia?”
My eyes fluttered shut, trapping the promise to not shed a tear even if my breathing took the blow of his merciless words.
“It seems to me the only one who lied to you was yourself.”
Sometimes words needed to be freed.
Spoken, written, loose.
Sometimes they were never meant to create a sentence.
And sometimes, I wish they held no power.
XXXVIII
LUCCA
So much to do andnot enough time to see it through.
Katia wanted to return? Fine, I assured our departure that same morning. I too needed to be back. My phone never stopped ringing, and this trip was a waste of time while I could be out on the streets and showing my face to our men.
The threats had heightened after killing Tino. I knew this would happen, but Borelli still remained in Los Angeles. But with my streets weeping in blood, some things were inevitable. My presence inmycity was one of them.
I’d spent the entire trip back working from my phone and tablet. Not once did I acknowledge her piercing eyes that punctured my body with pain. There was nothing I could say that would take that away.
I knew my faults, and not sharing the dark side of business was one of them. Ilias had once told me not knowing the threats was more dangerous. That was before he’d sworn the oath to la famiglia. I never understood him then, and even now, I still didn’t.
