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“No. I don’t believe you’ll tell me everything, but I do know one thing.”
“What? Tell me, please, what?”
He smiles sinisterly.“I know you love me, but it’s too late, baby, and I know a punishment much worse than killing you.”
“What?” I repeat, confused out of my mind and terrified.
“I watched my mother die slowly when she lost my father. Her love for him was so deep that she couldn’t bear to be without him. I should pull the trigger and end it all. Kill myself. And then you can suffer like she did until you die and join me in the fucking afterlife.”
I see him slowly putting pressure on the trigger, and I scream out, “Nico! Please, stop. Please. It’s us. You have to let me tell you! I love you. Don’t do this to us.” I cry so hard I feel it deep in my chest.
“I won’t live life without you, baby. I love you too much. So what do you say? How about I meet you in hell, my wife?” He tightens his hand on the trigger, and I call out for Giulio.
“Giulio, help! Nico, please! I love you. Stop!”
“Yeah? You do?” Spit flies from his mouth, and his face is so red it matches the shade of blood I fear I’m about to see.
“Yes, please, I love you!”
“Good!” He clamps his eyes shut and I scream, dropping to the floor with my eyes closed as he pulls the trigger.
Someone enters the room hurriedly, too late, and I don’t need to look up to know it's Giulio.
But it's then I realize I didn’t hear a thud in front of me after the blast.
Crying and gasping for air without any sense of control, I slowly look up and see Nico standing over me, breathing hard. His gun is now at his side, and I fall back against the wall when I see he shot the one to the left of us.
I scream through my cries.
How could he have done that to me?
I wrap my arms around myself and wail so hard I don’t think there is an end in sight for me.
“Giulio, get my plane ready. I’m going to New York.”
He walks away, and I begin to choke, coughing so hard I can’t catch my breath. The door shuts, and I try to stand, but my legs give out and I fall, still sobbing and choking. Soon enough, my body gives out completely. Everything goes black, and I pass out with a whimper for my husband.
“Nico….”
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
NICO
I watchher sleep in the back of my plane. She looks tortured even in slumber. But I don’t feel remorse. I want her to feel pain for betraying me. Is it hypocritical, as I hid my plan from her all along? Yes. But nowhere in that plan did I even consider her death an option. She was put in this marriage to make sure I only made it out in a fucking body bag.
But that ship has sailed, and Giuseppe’s plan has backfired, because I will be the one who ends him. When I heard those words leave Emelia’s mouth on the phone, I felt everything in me disintegrate into a rage so deep I could taste it and feel it traveling through my blood.
I knew her father was behind it, but I never thought Emelia would have known or been in on it. Even if what she said back home was true, it still didn’t sit with me as the truth. When she passed out, I carried her to the car and onto the plane. She hasn’t woken since, and I’m thankful for that, because I don’t know what the fuck I’m going to say to her when she wakes up.
What happened before we left was insanity. There were two sides of me that collided and couldn’t overrule one another. The killer in me who would end anything and anyone who fucked with him. And the man who loves the woman who hurt him.
I would have rather killed myself than her. Because I couldn’t watch the life leave her, and I couldn’t imagine a life where she wasn’t in it. The twisted, fucked knowledge of that ate at me since I pulled that trigger. Now, I watch her sleep and have no idea what to do when she wakes. But I do know what I plan to do when I get to New York.
Start. A. War.
Emelia doesn’t get a say anymore.
Leaving her to rest, I head to the front of the cabin and sit next to Giulio. The whiskey I asked the stewardess to prepare is waiting for me, but instead of downing it, I take my sweet time. Looking out the window at the dark vastness of the night, I think about everything that has played out in the past couple of weeks.
