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Renata cocked her gun behind my head. “Your boss. And who would that be?”
Damian took a step forward.
“Renata—” He sounded like he wanted to stop her.
Like he wanted to protect me.
He wouldn’t hurt you.
Gio’s words from the night of Asher’s wedding filtered into my head.
“Didn’t you hear her? She’s in the FBI.” Renata’s cold voice dripped disdain, and I considered, for the first time, that Damian wasn’t the threat. She was. “This can be a Vitali matter if I make it one. Choose your words wisely.”
Bastian dropped his gun to his side. I stared at him until he secured it in his holster, wondering why he was risking himself to save me.
“What do you want?” He cocked his head, then shook it. “What’s the Vitali position here?”
The Vitali policed all mafia syndicates across the globe. I didn’t know much about them. They kept themselves in the shadows, but that only made them more formidable.
I felt the gun lower behind me, and I was tempted to make my move, but Bastian shifted his head. A slight no.
I listened to him.
“We’ll be watching from afar, so long as you can deal with this internally.”
Bastian took a step closer. “What’s the catch?”
“There will be consequences should you mishandle this.”
He nodded his head at her words and jerked his head toward the entrance of the alley. My eyes stayed on him, not even glancing at my half-brother as I brushed past him and followed Bastian.
The adrenaline had worn off. Exhausted weighed me down as Bastian led me to his car, and I was speechless as I took a seat in the passenger seat beside him.
“You’re a liar.”
“I am.”
“Elsa’s a liar.”
“Please, don’t compare me to her.”
God, this hurt.
I had no flesh left in me with the way the pain clawed beneath my skin, kicking, scratching, forcing its way through my body.
He’d compared me to Elsa.
He hated Elsa.
He hates you.
Bastian had been driving back to his place, but he swung his sports car to the side of the road and stopped.
I held my breath as he turned to face me.
“The truth. Now.”
“I-I—”
