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I leaned forward, lowering my voice as I pressed my lips into her ear. “I’ll give you a reason to roll your eyes.”
She stiffened, but her body molded into mine for just a moment before she pulled away and strode off.
I glared at Damien. “Take care of her,” I demanded.
“Yes, sir.”
Then, with a deep breath, I turned back to the cooler and got to work.
***
I washed the blood from my hands in one of the kitchen’s sinks as a few of my guys loaded up the owner into a van. He’d get to a hospital, and I knew he wouldn’t dare talk about what had happened here. Nobody would. They all knew that if my name left the lips of a single person here, everyone would pay the ultimate price.
I stopped counting the bones I broke, but the cracks still reverberated through my mind as I left the diner and headed for the bar across the road.
I knew I should let her go as soon as Justin contacted me with her full background. But the thought of her walking away from this entire situation didn’t sit right with me. I couldn’t tell if it was my intrigue that drove my actions or the threat she posed. It continued to be real, even with a background check completed. And now, she knew more about me than she had before.
She’d walked into official mob business, and that made her my property for as long as I deemed necessary.
Her life became mine the moment she saw me kill a man. What I did with that life was my choice.
I pushed through the doors of the bar. It was early enough that the music was low and only about a dozen people milled around the bar area. The tables on the outskirts of the room were packed with people eating lunch.
I liked this place. I could bring my guys here for either a decent lunch or an evening drink. This bar had been integral to business for years, and it would stay that way for many more.
The owner knew how often I used the place, and so long as he kept my secrets, I swore to keep my hand out of hisbusiness.
My eyes drifted immediately to a redhead at the bar, and then shot to Damien at her side. They sat close. Through the bar seats, I saw their thighs pressed together and his arm around her. She wasn’t fighting the embrace as she nursed a drink in front of her, and Damien looked all too happy to continue.
He eye-fucked her for everyone to see.
I stiffened as a burning rage crept through me. I waited for Sienna to pull away, but she didn’t. Instead, she seemed to lean closer into him as he spoke.
Flashes of what I could do to his mangled body swept through my mind. Mutilated limbs. All the orifices I could slice open…
I stepped forward, just within earshot of them. Neither turned to face me as I stood with my arms crossed. “I don’t belong to anyone,” she said, shaking her head. “I can talk to you however I want.”
Was she coming onto him?
Damien smirked down at her. “When the boss claims someone—”
“If you were really serious about that, you wouldn’t have your arm around me right now,” she chided. “He isn’t in control of me or my life. If I want to sit and talk to you like this, I can do whatever I want.”
Damien didn’t seem to have a single argument as he huffed and shrugged. “We should take this somewhere more private then,” he said.
I stiffened and took a step forward.
11
Sienna
The plan struck me as soon as we strode into the bar.
Whatever was brewing between Dante and me needed to end before I could go any further with this mission. I needed to see him at his worst and convince myself that what I was doing was the right call. I needed to believe it again.
I’d spent my whole life believing I’d do anything to take down the Guerra empire, but now I was here…
I pushed away the thoughts.
