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I close my eyes. “I traded a motorcycle club for the mafia. Awesome.” My stomach turns at the realization that I went from one dangerous family to an even more dangerous family.
“My job is to make people disappear.”
“Stalker, murderer, mafia, anything else on the résumé I should know?”
He’s actually considering my question and takes a second to answer. “Loves dogs and kids?”
My face drains with blood. “Are you fucking kidding me?”
“Stop judging, it doesn’t go well with that gorgeous face of yours.”
I’m walking around in the middle of the night with a killer. This is how people go missing. Wait, technically, Iammissing. I swallow, opening my mouth to respond, but he leans closer, his lips a few inches from mine.
“I can still see the judgment in your eyes,” he whispers, the tenor of his voice rough and dark.
Our feet stop and I lick my lips, searching for the words before I ask, “What about the textbooks and saying you’re taking classes? Was that all a lie, to be approachable?”
“Nope, it’s all true. I like to learn and it settles me. I kill less the more I learn. Romeo, my brother, happens to think it’s a very positive influence on my lifestyle.” He holds my body tighter to his, like he’s scared I’ll run away. My body molds perfectly into his, creating this strange warmth that has to be the start to some dangerous illusion he’s wrapping around me.
“Romeo?” Out of all of that, the word out of my mouth is his brother’s name. I’m losing my mind. It has to be the explanation.
“Yeah, my older brother, the Don.” The small voice in my head is yelling at me for not being more concerned, or scared, for my wellbeing. Instead, I want to know more about him.
“What do you do for your family?”
“I do a few different things. One of them is doing legal counsel for Dante’s club, so when I said nothing will happen to you at Throne of Sin, you can trust me on it.”
I’m getting distracted again. I need to focus on the fact he’s a trained killer.
“Sienna, you’re safe with me. I will never hurt you, and I will always ensure your safety. I promise.” Brute lays down between us. “Look at me.”
Hesitantly, I look into his eyes. They’re warm, sincere, and have a way of drawing me in. My voice of reason, the one who has kept me safe my whole life, has, annoyingly, become powerless. This thing happening between Max and me is nowhere nearsafe. He stirs up too many emotions I can’t put my finger on.
“I will never hurt you,” he says again.
“Brute’s tired. Let’s go home.” I sigh. This conversation is going to have to rattle around in my head for a while before I can process it.
I try to shake off Max’s arm, but it stays looped around my shoulder.
Copy Cat
Theylookcutetogether.I’ve been studying Maximus Mancini for a long time now and I’m starting to think that the student has surpassed his teacher. Everyone slips in the end. Sienna is too distracting. He should be focusing on me more. Looks like I’m going to have to say hi to Sienna to catch his attention once again.
Chapter 14: Max
Iwalkintomymother’s house and slam the door behind me. She’s been showing up unwanted to Romeo’s house, spouting her nonsense.
Her eyes widen seeing my large presence and she runs to get her cross hanging on the wall.
“Don’t you dare.” I raise my finger and her hand pauses over it. “Dante and Savio may have let you beat them. I. Am. Not. Them.”
She prays, her fingers moving over her chest. “You are going to Hell just like the rest of them,” she angrily mocks.
I could say she is going there too, but I’ve learned not to engage with her religious antics.
“If you don’t shut up, I’ll place a bullet between your eyes.” She sucks in a breath, knowing I’m a man of my word. I have no feelings for this woman. She left Romeo and me to survive on our own once our father was killed. She wanted nothing to do with us and didn’t care if we became collateral damage in the mafia war. She was no better to my younger estranged brothers.
Hell, I forgot they existed for most of my life. I’m shocked they turned out as well as they did. I glance at my watch. This visit has already taken too much of my time. I have a house to blow up in the next hour.
