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“What makes you think that you’re myonly option, Kasen?” she sneered at me. “You were just the easiest since you’re sleeping with the bastard every night.”
“Fia, it can’t be done,” I said, trying one last time to reason with her. “Do you know how many people have tried to kill Nero and have failed? His family is the most powerful one in the city for a reason. Even if he wasn’t Nero Sartori, his father and brother are pretty powerful themselves.” I could feel my heart sinking in my chest. “Whatever you’re thinking, stop.”
“I think you needto leave,” she said, her voice sounding like that’s exactly what I needed to do.
Walking out of her room, I raced downstairs, and it only took me a minute or so to find Papa in his office, enjoying his evening cigar. Thankful for his predictability, I shut the door behind me, and I ratted my sister out in the hopes of saving her life. I couldn’t see Nero caring that she was a woman, my sister, or pregnant. After all, Fia had already betrayed him once.
However, to my utter horror, Papa haddismissed Fia’s threats as nothing more than her having another tantrum. Just like I did, Papa knew the impossibility of killing a Sartori, so he really hadn’t seemed concerned with Fia’s plans to seek revenge.
So, after having Rafael drive me around for two hours, biding some time to figure out what to do, I was back at Nero’s house, my heart in my throat, my mind no longer sure of right or wrong anymore. Though I knew what I had to do in order to save my family again, it still felt like I was…picking sides.
Letting out a shaky breath as I straightened my back, I raised my fist, then knocked on Nero’s office door, knowing that he had every right to turn me away.
Chapter 19
Nero~
“Enter,” I called out, though the last person that I had expected to see walking into my office was my wife. As far as I knew, Kasen only knew the inside of our bedroom and bathroom, and that was it.
She looked sick to her stomach as she shut the door behind her, and I didn’t like that shelooked nervous and upset. Whatever put that look on her face, I’d do anything to erase it. Even when Renzo had blown Mano’s brains out, Kasen hadn’t looked this upset. Sure, that could have been due to shock, but still. It was also concerning how much I was bothered by her distress. I mean, I was very aware of the hold that Kasen had over me, but this felt different.
I leaned back in my seat, folding my hands over my lap. “What can I do for you,il mio cuore?”
WhenKasen stopped in front of my desk, I watched her straighten her back, and it was clear that she was trying to be brave. “I need to talk to you about something, but I also understand that…that I don’t necessarily deserve to have you hear me out.” She let out a shaky breath, and Ireallydidn’t fucking like it. There was only one person on the planet that shouldn’t fear me, and it was my wife. “I realized how much of a hypocrite I’m being by asking you for anything while I’ve been acting less than…accepting. However…” She let out a low, hollow, troublesome chuckle. “Well, let’s just say that I wouldn’t be here if I had any other options.”
“Just tell me what it is, Kasen,” I ordered softly.
“I just came from my parents’ house, and…and I had a talk with my sister.” Somehow, I wasn’t surprised to hear that Fia Milano was the cause behind her distress.
“And how is your sister?”
Kasen was quiet for a few secondsbefore saying, “She’s vowed to kill you for what happened to Mano.”
I almost laughed.
“Has she now?”
“Even though it was Papa that killed him, she’s convinced herself that it’s your fault,” she went on. “She believes that she could have gotten my father to come around had she been able to tell him the truth in her own way.”
“I see,” I murmured,unsure of why Kasen was telling me this. “And what’s her plan? How does she think she’ll succeed where so many others have failed?”
“Her original plan was for meto poison you for her,” she confessed.
That got a smirk out of me. “Well, well, well…it looks like the youngest Milano isn’t as useless as she appears. Stupid, yes. Useless, not so much.” I leaned forward across my desk. “And did you inform her that you and I would have to share a meal together for that to happen?”
Kasenshot me an annoyed look, but I preferred it to her looking upset. “I told her that she was crazy. I also made it clear that I wasn’t going to risk my life to avenge her dead lover.”
“I bet she took that well,” I drawled out.
“We argued,” she admitted. “She accused me of pickingyou over my family.”
I cocked my head. “If she only knew. Right,il mio cuore?”
Ignoring that, she said, “After I told her that I wasn’t going to help her, she insinuated that she knew other people that were willing to help her out.”
I stood up,then walked around my desk until I was standing in front of my wife. Leaning back against the oak, I asked, “Why are you telling me this, Kasen? Your sister killing me would be the answer to all your prayers, no?”
She shot me another annoyed look. “You and I both know that she could never get close enough to kill you,” she replied. “I also know that whoever she might enlist won’t be good enough, either.” My wife let out a heavy sigh. “After Fia told me about her ridiculous plan, I told Papa.”
