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“Nova… you’re like one of those annoying fruit flies that just won’t seem to die, no matter how many times I’ve tried to kill you.”
“I could say the same about you.” I narrowed my eyes at him. “Whose body was in the van, Ryzen? Who else did you kill?”
His lips puckered, and he scratched his head with the tip of his gun. “Fucking Riddick. He just couldn’t see the bigger picture. I caught him trying to turn himself in. Can you believe that? He was going to turn himself in, and me. So he had to go. And it was all so damn easy—switching the dental records, the fire. And all of you idiots believed I was dead.”
“You killed your own brother?” My eyes widened at the revelation. “You are mental.”
He laughed in that crazy way of his, the sound making the hair on the back of my neck stand up. “Well, the show must go on. We’ve been through this before, so I’m not going to waste my breath. First, I’m going to torture you while lover boy watches. Nice and slow. Then, when you’re close to death, I’ll start on him, so you can watch the fun.” He smirked. “Oh, it’s going to be bloody and painful.”
A noise sounded from outside, and we all snapped our heads toward the front door. The guard flung the door open, and Milliani stood there, a gun pointed at his head.
“Oh, look, we have a guest.” Ryzen pointed his gun at Milliani. “Please come in.”
She looked around the room, her eyes bouncing from Cian to me, then to Kaviathin next to me. “Where are the other guards?” she asked, looking at Ryzen.
“Dead, except him.” He nodded at the guard in front of her and before I could even blink, she pulled the trigger, shooting him right between his eyes. His body crumpled to the floor and hope rushed through me.
She was going to save us. We were going to get out of this. She turned her gun towards Ryzen and took a step forward.
“Shoot him,” I shouted, but she wouldn’t look me in the eye. “Milliani, fucking shoot him.”
Ryzen sighed. “What did you do that for?” He sounded bored, and not at all alarmed that she had a gun pointed at him, and blood rushed to the tips of my ears.
No.
She took another step, then another, until she was standing in front of us, her gun pointed at Ryzen’s head. “We said no witnesses,” she murmured and turned to face us, now pointing her gun at her brother.
My heart stopped beating for a moment, a pounding in my ears making the entire room go silent. She was the one who had been helping Ryzen? This whole fucking time?
“What are you doing, Milliani?” My breath came out ragged. “Fucking look at me!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, frustration and anger ready to explode out of my body.
She sighed, blinking rapidly. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Nova. I’m sorry.” Her eyes darkened when she looked at her brother, a coldness to them I had never seen before. “Do you know why you’re here, Kavi? Have you figured it out?” She hissed her words at him with such disgust, and Kaviathin squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, clenching his hands into fists.
“There was nothing I could do to save him, Milliani.” His voice was calm, controlled, which only seemed to infuriate her.
I glanced at Cian as he looked at Ryzen and then at the fireplace, doing the same motion over and over with his eyes. I didn’t dare move or acknowledge, but I understood exactly what he was saying.
“You didn’t even try.” Her eyes filled with tears. “I begged you. I begged you to keep him safe. And you refused.” Her hands trembled as she held the gun, her finger going back and forth over the trigger.
“Who?” I looked between them.
“Gabriele,” they both said at the same time, and a sob escaped her lips.
Oh, fuck. Her lover, the one her father had killed. That was why she was here in the United States in the first place.
“Keep up, Nova.” Ryzen rolled his eyes, seemingly bored with the confrontation playing out in front of us.
“You don’t get to say his name,” she growled and pushed the barrel of her gun against Kaviathin’s forehead, pushing his head back. “You’re going to pay for our father’s sins, Kavi. And so will Althazair. You chose this when you didn’t help me when I needed you.”
“And Father? What about him?”
“Poisoned as we speak, if Gustavo did his job right.” The corner of her mouth lifted in a grin, and she wiped under her nose with her free hand.
Kaviathin stiffened, his jaw clenching.
“I don’t understand. You did this”—I waved my hands around the room—“to get back at your family? You tricked me into being your friend, made me feel sorry for you, just so you could kill your brother?” My voice rose with each word, the anger running through me making my body feel electric.
She scrunched up her nose, pulling back slightly.
