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“I’ll tell you everything I knew—everything Iknow. I’ll prove I had no part in it, too.” I watch as Evelina straightens her spine, and it isn’t that I thought her to be a pawn before. I never thought of her as a weak woman…I just never saw her in this light. Right now, she looks like a fucking hurricane ready to destroy anything and everything in her path.
“Let me make one call and you’ll have all the proof you need.”
Something tells me I should believe her.
Idobelieve her.
And I think the other men in this room do, too. But unfortunately, this is what has to happen. She has to be our prisoner now. None of us wanted this. And there’s only one fuck to blame.
The only solace I have is that she will be well taken care of. My family wouldn’t have it any other way. Not for a woman. Not for Evelina, one we once welcomed into our home like our own.
Because she was ours.
But so was Enzo.
And look where that got us.
Vecchi peccati hanno le ombre lunghe.
Old sins have long shadows.
* * *
I run my blade down his cheek, digging in deeper and deeper until I get to his jawbone—and that’s when I stab upward, directly into said bone.
Enzo lets out a guttural scream that pierces my ears and, quite frankly, pisses me the fuck off. I swipe a rag from one of my soldiers and shove it down his fucking throat.
“You’re just as pitiful as all the other worthless bastards who have been down here before,” I grit out.
He kicks his legs, but it’s useless—and it only hurts him more. He’s suspended in the air with thick fish hooks that are attached to the ceiling. The skin on his upper back is stretched to its tearing point as the weight of his body is pushed down by gravity, and blood streams down his back, dripping to the concrete below his dangling body.
I’m fucked from yesterday, my body sore as fuck and my wounds barely having time to stop bleeding.
But today is all about Enzo and Roberto. And then seeing to it that my woman is resting and healing and taking it easy. I know she’ll be trying to do more than she should. So as soon as I’ve handled business, the only thing I’ll be doing is cleaning up and sitting at her side.
I flip the switch and return to the here and now.
To this fucking worthless bastard hanging in front of me.
“Such an ignorant man, Greco. Sneaking around like a fucking bitch behind your family’s back. Thought you had it all figured out, didn’t you?” I ask him, knowing full well he can’t answer in his current state.
He sobs around the makeshift gag, and I plunge my knife into his thigh, digging it around in his flesh a bit before yanking it back out, only to do it again in the exact same spot. I do my best to keep a hold of myself—to keep my emotions at bay.
I never expected it from him. Not once.
And this poses a fucking problem because it is my job to see things before they transpire.
To always be one step ahead.
“You know you won’t make it out of here alive. You may have lost your ever-loving fucking mind, but surely you know that much is true.”
I grab him by the shoulder and firmly push down, causing his skin to stretch farther, blood spurting out as it rips his flesh from his bone.
Truth be told, I thought Giana was starting to make me a little too soft. I fucking love that woman, but I’ve worried I’ll lose my touch.
Looks like that hasn’t happened yet.
I chuckle as he lets out a manic, muffled scream.
