Page 168 of Devoted


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Sweat beads on his forehead, mingling with the crimson.

“Nothing to say?”I let a plume of smoke waft into his face.

“Fuck you and that fucking whore upstairs,”he yells.

I draw back my right hand and crack it into his mouth. Blood splatters, followed by a couple of teeth bouncing on the floor.

“You don’t get to speak about her, or ever say her name again,” I say through gritted teeth.

He hisses as I stub the cigarette out on his forehead.

A fresh wave of hatred washes over me, thinking about what he did to my girl. I push my thumb into the corner of his eye and push, hard enough for it to pop under my thumb and out of its socket. I grab the soft ball and pull, relishing in his screams as I jerk it free. “That’s for even looking at her.” I promised Rosa pain, and that’s exactly what I’ll deliver.

“No more. Please, just get it over with.”A stream of fresh blood streams from his sunken eyelid.

The room erupts into laughter. “You’re pleading with the wrong men, Dante. We show no mercy.”

I clutch Rosa’s engagement ring, the thing that trapped her for months.

“Open your mouth,” I command.

He shakes his head.

Grabbing his jaw, I pry open his mouth and shove the massive diamond in.“Now swallow.”

He clenches his teeth, fighting to shake my hands free. Pinning his head, I pinch his nose shut and cover his mouth with my hand.

“I said, fucking swallow.”

Leaning in, I whisper. “If you don’t, I’ll cut your dick off and make you eat that instead.”

He tries to thrash under my suffocating grasp, but finally does a dramatic swallow.

He’s not nearly in enough pain yet.“Keller, pass me the hammer.”

Keller steps out of the shadows and drops the heavy weight of a small sledge into my palm. I take a step back, swinging my arm up, and with an angry load of force, smash the hammer straight onto his kneecap.

The bone crunches as his lower leg juts limply out in front of him. He tips back his head and lets out a blood-curdling scream.

I prop the mallet on my shoulder. “Now, where the fuck is Eva?”

I clench my teeth. I bet that hurt like a son of a bitch.

Tears stream down his sweaty face, dripping from his split lips.

He lets out a wheezing laugh. “Why does it matter? She’s probably dead by now.”

My heart sinks for Rosa. In all honesty, I don’t believe Eva is alive. Not now that I know Maria was in on it.

“What limb next?” Frankie calls over, holding up the hacksaw.

“Hands.”I toss the hammer on the table next to the dismembered digits.

Dante’s mouth opens with a low moan and frantically begins shaking his head. Frankie hands me the saw.

“What’s your preference, left or right?”I touch each one with the tip of the tool as I ask.

“Fuck off.”He sucks in saliva and spits it at my shoe. I kick it off.

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