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Her Italian side always shone brighter when she was sad or burning in fury.
“I don’t know what love is. I’ve never seen it, never felt it. What I know is that I would kill anyone who tries to hurt you.”
“Hugo, that’s literally your job.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. Yeah, it was my job, a job I dreaded when it was dumped on me, a job I saw as an insult, like her brother didn’t respect me enough to let me lead with him, but that was the mission of my pathetic fucking life.
“Not like that. What we’re doing is wrong, Cat, and nothing will change that. I should have known better. I shouldn’t have touched you.” She tried to protest, but I silenced her with a finger on her lips. “You are too fucking precious to be with a man like me, and that’s just simple fucking truth. This thing we have, it’s a matter of life and death, Cat, and that’s just another simple truth.”
“Stop being so dramatic, damn it!”
“I’m not. I need you to know. My life will end when they find out what I did. The Nucci famiglia will spill my blood, but that’s ok. I’m not afraid to die. I’ve walked through the valley of the shadow of death before, and I came back. I’m ready to do it again for you, Catherinelle. When my heart beats, I can hear the echo of your name in my chest, and I don’t know if that’s love, but is it enough?”
She took a second, but in the end, she gave me her radiant smile. Her beautiful, clear like the June sky, life-giving smile.
“It’s enough.” And then she kissed the shit out of me. “For now.”
