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Our home.
But how?
“How did he get the codes to my house?” I think out loud, shifting in my seat.
“What?” Antonio turns from the front passenger seat and asks.
“He’s holding her captive in my house.” I hold up my phone. “Our house. He has her in my dungeon.”
Antonio holds out his hand for my phone. I deny it with a shake of my head. I refuse to let him see her like that.
“D? She good?” the concern in Luca’s voice is genuine.
I illuminate my screen and show him.
His jaw pulses. “How the fuck did he get in? Too many security measures have been put in place. It’s like Fort Knox, D,” Luca growls with an eagerness to pulverize Nikolai. “Who?” he grits out.
“A rat,” Giovanni mumbles.
I crash my fist against the driver’s headrest, ordering our footman to drive faster.
Antonio twists in his seat to make sure the car following us with Mr. Heart, his consigliere as well as bodyguard, Lorenzo, and Joseph stays with us as we race through the city streets. “Don’t lose that car,” he instructs Drago with a pointed finger.
Precious minutes pass while my girl hangs from the cross I seek pleasure with. I open the image again. My thumb tenderly grazing over her limp body. A swarm of emotions fill my chest with a pain I’ve never experienced before. The blood trickling from her mouth has me seeing red. I will bludgeon my brother until his last breath has been expelled from his body for doing this to her.
I’m jumping out curbside before the car comes to a full stop. I hear everyone yelling for me to wait but I pay no mind to their concern. I need to get to her. To my wife. I told her I would bleed for her. I wasn’t lying when I said it. I will shed blood for her until the day of my death.
I go straight through the back entrance where we hold all the fights in the basement. The smell of dried blood lingers from the fights that have ensued down here. I cautiously make my way through the tunnels, my shoes scuffing the cement with my eager steps. I get to the corner right before the open area where the fights are held and stop, listening for any noise. A tap on my shoulder from behind makes me turn abruptly.
“I’ve got your back. Let’s go get our girl.”
“My girl.”
Luca ignores my correction, telling me, “Gio and Antonio went inside through the front door. Joseph is standing guard at the back entrance.”
“Mr. Heart?”
“Upstairs. Leading the pack.”
I edge our way down the tunnels until I get to the break off. The tunnel to her dance studio and my dungeon is on the other side of the open room. My chest tightens when I think back to how her face lit up when she saw the studio I had done for her.
“What’s the plan?”
“Murder him.”
“Yeah, D. I know. How are we going about this?”
“Shh.” I quickly hold my hand up, hearing a noise echo down the tunnel behind us. I motion for Luca to go to the opposite side. The footsteps get louder as they get closer. The tip of his shoe breaches the mouth of the tunnel. Before Nikolai’s man knows what’s happening, I’m slicing the rough skin of his weathered throat.
There will be no survivors today.
Luca swiftly pulls his limp bleeding body to the side and drops him out of sight.
“We both know he isn’t the only one. Keep your ears and eyes open.” A flash catches my eye. I jerk my chin in its direction. “Someone’s in my office.”
The light flashes once again. “I’ll go. You go to Haven.”
I hold up my hand for Luca to wait. I need to know how many men they found upstairs. I dial Giovanni’s number, knowing he always has his phone on silent. I wait, tensing further with each ring that goes unanswered, hoping he will feel the vibration.
