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I stood from the bed and walked toward the doorway.
Luca’s men immediately stood at attention, their guns aimed at me. “Don’t get a wise idea!” Enzo snapped. I rolled my eyes and Luca waved off his dogs.
“What is it?” he asked, looking at me, his eyes narrowed, jaw clenched.
“You can’t go alone,” I said matter-of-factly.
I might not have known much about the crime world directly, but I knew one thing: If Luca walked into that meeting alone, they’d kill him.
Not because I knew how dangerous my father was, because up until Luca had kidnapped me and I heard my dad on the phone, I never would have pictured him being the type that was involved in all this.
So it wasn’t that.
He wasn’t some dangerous man.
Not the man I knew.
But I did know how much he loved me.
No matter what my old man did that I didn’t know about, I knew he would do whatever it took to keep me safe.
“My men are going,” he grumbled. “Will you go back in there, sit the hell down, and let the men take care of it?”
I laughed mockingly. “That’s gross,” scoffed. “Men?” I looked around at his guys and smirked. Their expressions did enough to make it worth it. They were offended to the core.
Luca rolled his eyes. “Enough,” he warned.
I loved that he acted so tough and brash around his goons.
“I’m going,” I insisted, ignoring the situation around me entirely.
“You’re not,” he laughed, pushing me further back into my room.
“I am!” I argued. “If he doesn’t see me there, he’ll kill you!”
“That would be stupid,” he responded, almost nonchalantly. “Because as soon as he did, my men would kill himandyou.”
"Luca, trust me," I insisted, my voice quivering with determination. "I know my father better than anyone."
“And yet you had no idea he was in the mob?”
A conflicted expression crossed his face and his brows furrowed as he studied me.
“I’m telling you,” I said calmly, taking a deep breath as my voice escaped me. “He’s going to want to see me there.”
I could tell he was grappling with the decision, and I’d made my point with the seriousness of my expression. There was concern etched into every line on his face. “It’s going to be dangerous,” he said, and I could tell that the look behind his eyes meant it sincerely.
He didn’t want me to die.
Strangely enough, I didn’t want him to die, either.
“I’m telling you, I can handle it,” I said. “Besides, I want to see him with my own eyes. Confront him about all of this.”
With more reluctance than I’ve ever seen, Luca sighed and nodded. “Okay,” he said. “But you need to promise you’ll stay close.”
One of his men moved in, his brows twisted in confusion as Luca’s tone of voice seemed to betray him. He cleared his throat, “Or I’ll kill you myself,” he grumbled harshly. I could tell that was compensating. He didn’t want anyone to know that there was something between us.
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