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Stefano nodded, and then they disappeared around the hedge.
“We need to stay off the street,” Ant said. “Can she walk?” he asked Knox.
“No. She’s still crashing from the drugs.”
The Hills was an upper middle-class neighborhood. A gun battle and raid in the middle of the night didn’t go unnoticed. And neither did two Italian mafiosi in their black suits and dangerous aura. Even if Knox wasn’t carrying a nearly naked, barely conscious girl, his ink, grit, and appearance definitely defined his attitude.
My face throbbed. I could feel the bruises darkening my eyes and the swelling in my mouth. I wore Marco’s suit coat, and my skin was smeared with drying blood.
As I walked next to Knox and Dee, Ant scanned the area in front of us, and Marco continued to check to make sure we weren’t followed.
“What happened, Ally?” Knox’s jaw ticked. “Do you know what it fucking did to me to see you with Byrne?”
I rested my hand on his arm. “I know. I panicked.” I squeezed his arm. “Three men found the gate. One went in after you. Not the guy Niall that I killed on the stairs. I was scared you’d have Dee and not be able to fight. I stabbed one of Byrne’s soldiers outside, and then I gave both of them the dog tranquilizer.”
Marco’s stepped closer and banded his fingers around the back of my neck. “I will have every detail.” His gaze darkened on Knox. “Hertrainingends.”
Knox smiled. “Get used to me. I’m not going anywhere.”
I lifted my gaze to Marco. I opened my mouth to speak, then stopped. Knox had my sister in his arms. My husband had set aside his anger and jealousy and trusted in a man he hated. I loved Knox, but Marco needed to know my heart, my life, my loyalty was his.
I stayed quiet, letting the two men in my life define our relationship.
“You’ve made enemies of the Irish and the Italians,” Marco said. “You’re not in a position to make demands.”
“Do you really want to test my loyalty to your wife?”
“I believe that test was answered tonight.”
Ant abruptly stopped. A patrol car turned the corner up ahead.
Knox shifted against a tree, shielded Dee, and held perfectly still. Ant positioned in front of them.
Marco took my hand, stepped into the glow of the streetlight, and tipped my face to his. “We need a distraction.” He lowered his head. My eyes slid closed as he gently held my cheek and feathered a kiss against my lips.
With Marco, there would always be pain with pleasure. Our beautiful sunsets would be bathed in blood. Our oaths carved into our flesh, and our enemies would be slain at our feet.
My mouth opened, and I tasted his power. His claim wasn’t gentle. He was fierce and brutal. I slid my hand over his chest, finding the edge of the scar that bound me to him. He growled and kissed me deeper. The coppery sweetness of blood tainted our kiss as I bled for him again.
I was his, and tonight, he proved he’d burn down the world for me.
Chapter Seventeen
Marco
Knox sat next to the window in the middle row of the vehicle. Deidre slept in his arms. I was next to him with Allegra in my lap. My hand rested just inside the suit coat, against her warm, smooth skin. The roundness of her ass fit snugly against my groin.
She was intimately aware of me, shifting against me as if she couldn’t get close enough. Her broken and blood-caked fingernails clung to the hard meat of my shoulder.
Yet, she spoke to Knox as if she wasn’t turning me inside out.
“I lost something that belonged to us,” she said to him.
I listened to them speak with the sweet torture of her scent in my nose and the softness of her skin beneath my palm. Every shift, every breath sent another pulse of primal, heated energy through me.
“I don’t think it’s lost,” Knox said and smiled.
“It’s lost to me. I’ll never have it in my hand again. The weight of it was perfect.”
