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“Hello, baby girl.”
I’m frozen with fear. I can’t even bring myself to scream. Shaking myself from the shock, I turn and run as fast as I can, my lungs burning as I reach the front door.
His heavy footsteps get louder as he chases me.
“You can’t run from me,” he laughs.
I launch myself down the steps and sprint out of the gate, keeping my eyes focused in front of me. The dim street lights are the only source of light as I race down the street.
My scalp burns as my ponytail is nearly jerked from my head. Smashing into him, he wraps his arms around my torso. I kick and flail in his arms. “Get off me! Someone help!” I scream as loud as I can.
His hand clamps over my nose and mouth.
“Shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch,” he whispers.
He drags me back towards the house even as I fight him with everything I have. He grips painfully onto my elbows and pushes my back onto the metal of the car.
“Luca can’t save you. He will be a little busy right about now. He won’t have time for poor little Rosa.”
“What have you done, Dante?” Agony rips through me at the thought that he may be hurt.
He lets out a malicious laugh before tossing me into the backseat. It’s only then, when he slides into the driver’s seat and the lights are on in the car, I see the dried crimson stains on his shirt and hands.
I muffle my cries with the back of my hand.
“Time to go home. We have a wedding tomorrow, and you had best get your beauty sleep.”
The forever that was just in my grasp slips away into a nightmare.
CHAPTERSIXTY-SEVEN
rosa
“Someone is here for you,” Dante calls out from the living room.
I peer out of my bedroom and find him grinning by my door.
“Who?”
Please don’t be Luca.
“The soon to be dead ex-boyfriend of my wife. Now go out there, break his heart, and tell him to come to the wedding tomorrow. I want to feel his pain. I want to watch him suffer before he dies.”
“No.”
“No? Okay, instead, I’ll give you the location of Eva’s dead body as a wedding present tomorrow. Up to you.” He shrugs with a smug grin.
He holds his phone up so I can see the screen. “Make your choice.”
He presses the call button on ‘M’. The blood drains from me. A familiar high-pitched female answers the call.
“Oh, hello, big brother.”
My mouth falls open–Maria. Hearing her voice is a kick to the gut.
The knocking at the door gets louder. How the hell am I going to do this to Luca? I have to get him to believe me.
I snatch the phone out of Dante’s hand and end the connection. “I’ll do it.”
