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I pull her closer against me and kiss the top of her head. “You did good. I know you’re in shock right now. But that needed to happen. He was going to kill me, otherwise. I’m so fucking proud of you.”
“Theo,” she gasps out, burying her head into my chest. I hold her tighter. “What are we going to do? Those men will see what floor we get off on.”
“We’ll take our chances in the lobby. I’m hoping they won’t outright fire on us in a hotel full of innocent people.”
“We need to tell my family. Antonio will help.”
“Will he?”
She hesitates. “Ok. Fine. We need to tell Marco, Viktor, and Leo. I know they’ll help us.”
“They all work with Antonio, though. They won’t want to go against their alliance with him by helping us.”
“Maybe not. But I know for fact my older sisters will help us. All three of them. They can convince their husbands to help. They can get us out of the city before more of Salvatore’s mencome after us.” She pauses. “And before Antonio comes after us,” she says softly.
“He’ll be angry we ruined his plans.”
“He can deal with it. He might be the boss of the Moretti Mafia, but he’s still my brother.”
We reach the lobby floor, and the doors open.
“This is it,” I say, grabbing her hand.
On the other side of the doors is … just people. Not Salvatore’s men. Just innocent people at the hotel. A few give us confused and curious glances as we run out of the elevator.
“Congratulations!” a woman says to us.
“Thanks,” Cecilia calls out over her shoulder.
We stop running once we reach the main lobby. People are milling around, and I recognize a few of Salvatore’s men here and there, but fortunately, there are only a handful.
I also see Viktor and Marco in the lobby, talking to each other. Now is the time to see if they’ll help.
They see us before we reach them.
“Hey, lovebirds,” Viktor says. “I see you actually went through with it, Theo.”
Marco frowns. “Through with what?”
“Oh, Gemma told me,” Viktor explains. “These two. They’re in love.”
“What?” Marco’s voice is like ice. “Why haven’t I heard about this?”
Viktor shrugs. “Don’t know what to tell you, man.” He turns to me. “So, I’m assuming since Cecilia isn’t in her honeymoon suite with her new husband that something happened to him.”
I lower my voice. “I killed him.”
Marco freezes as Viktor throws his head back and laughs.
“You did what?” Marco asks. “You’re just asking to die.”
Viktor finishes laughing and wipes a nonexistent tear from his cheek. “I love it. The good bodyguard going rogue. So, what do you need from us? Because I can tell you need our help.”
“We do,” Cecilia says, squeezing my hand. “We need to get out of here without more of Salvatore’s men coming after us. Can you get us out of the city?”
Marco sighs deeply, shaking his head. “I can’t believe this. Cecilia, you were supposed to marry Salvatore. I’ll have to inform Antonio about this.”
“Can’t it wait?” she asks. “Please, Marco. I know you’re a stickler for rules. You and Emilia both. But you know she’d help me. I don’t know what Antonio will do now that he’s boss. He might kill Theo. Please, get us out safely.”
