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The gun blast rocked my eardrums, and when Franz’s body hit the floor, there was nothing left of his face. The other three menall stepped back from the body, and if they pissed themselves, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I started laughing.
My head hurt, my arm was still on fire, and I was still bleeding some, but I laughed. I laughed because I didn’t know what else to do. Maybe I wasbecoming hysterical, but I wasn’t sure. I just knew that, even if Emil Schulz let me go, my life was never going to be the same again. I wanted to feel hurt by what Nero had said, but I wasn’t. I was hurt because Ihadn’tbeen surprised by his words.
“Shut up, bitch!” Emil snarled.
I stared into his blue eyes as he stormed his way over, his arm swinging down, backhanding me hard enough to knock my chair over. Landing on my arm with the bullet wound, I felt it start bleeding again, and the dire part of me hoped that I just bled out. That would be a lot less painful than whatever else could be done to me.
“Boss-”
“What?!” he roared to a guy with light brown hair and hazel eyes.
“Maybe we leave her alone and not make things worse?” he suggested right before Emil Schulz raised his gun again, shooting the guy clean through his heart, another body hitting the floor.
“Someone get this bitch,” he hissed, jerking his head my way. “I’m going to let the others know to expect a couple of Sartori soldiers and RyanBuckner.” After one of his guys righted my chair, Emil stepped back in front of me. “You must really mean nothing if he’s sending a couple of disposable soldiers to come get you.” Then he reached out, grabbed the neckline of my blouse, ripping it open. “How bad of a fuck are you that Sartori can so easily replace you?”
I thought about all the Mafia wives that were constantly cheated on, and thatquestion had me chuckling humorlessly. “Don’t you know? All pussy’s replaceable, Emil.”
His blue eyesregarded me carefully. “Sadly, I think that you actually believe that.”
“Because it’s true,” I replied. After all, hadn’t Neo easily replaced Fia after she had betrayed him?
Turning away from me, he told his men, “Since Sartori doesn’t care about her and Milano’s numbers aren’t as big as they used to be, you guys can do whatever you want with her.” Emil looked back down at me, “After all, why should I be the only one getting fucked here tonight?”
He stormed out of the derelict farmhouse, leaving my blouse hanging open in a room full of men that hated my husband. Nevertheless, I was a fighter, and they were going to have to kill me before I let the worst happen.
I also wasn’t afraid to kill them if I had to.
Chapter 27
Nero~
I felt like I waslosing my motherfucking mind.
Everyone was here, but none of them mattered a fuck. I had gambled with Kasen’s life, and even though I knew that Emil Schulz’s narcissism was clinical enough that he’d never risk having his entire legacy wiped out, that didn’t change the fact that I had taken chances with my wife’s life with no guarantees. No matter how well you thought you knew someone, anger made people unpredictable.
There was also the fact that I’d had no choice but to senda couple of foot soldiers to pick her up to keep the façade going. Not only would they kill me or Elio if we showed our faces, but they’d immediately know just how important Kasen was to me.
Finishing my cigarette, I walked back into the main sitting roomof the house, everyone gathered around, absolutely fucking worthless. Nevertheless, everyone in the room belonged here, and if Kasen’s mother and sister weren’t such fucking selfish bitches, they’d also be here.
Renzo straightened when he saw me, and I knewthat he was going to try to take Kasen from me once we got her back. Now, did I blame him? No. If it were my daughter, I’d probably feel the same way. In fact, if it’d been my daughter, I probably would have killed her husband already, something that I wasn’t ruling out just yet. Renzo Milano may answer to the Sartoris now, but I also knew that he wasn’t afraid to die for his family; he’d said as much the night that I had married Kasen.
“You should have let me go get her,” Elio said, not for thefirst time.
I looked over at my brother. “So that they could kill you both?”
“I owe you,” he said seriously, and this was the worst possible time for him to finally grow the fuck up.
“Not with your life,” I pointed out.
“As far as I’m fucking concerned, youallowe my daughter your lives,” Renzo snarled, anger lacing every word. “If I’d known that this was how you planned on taking care of my child, I would have taken my chances with the other families.”
“Now, relax a bit, Renzo,” Marcoordered calmingly. “Pointing fingers doesn’t help the situation.”
Renzo shot my father a look of hatred. “Oh, really? Then tell me what fucking does, Marco? Tell me how relaxed you would feel if it wereyourchild.”
“No one could predict-”
