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But punches were still being thrown by Gio’s asshole buddies. Freddy moved fast and charged forward, then raised his gun and took aim.“We said enough, asshole!”
Lazarus Rossi carved a line through the middle of the melee, sparing a glance at Gio, who was under Tobias, his arms outstretched, his mouth bloody and ruined once more.
“You,” Lazarus snapped. “You stupid fucking idiot. I fucking warned you.” Lazarus looked to Tobias, who was filled with brutal frenzy.
Something passed between them. A kind of unspoken loyalty…or maybe it was the fact that Lazarus knew a few minutes more and Gio wouldn’t need to worry about his injuries because Tobias would kill him.
“Freddy,” Lazarus called his bodyguard. “Get him the fuck out of here.”
Freddy moved instantly, striding forward. Tobias didn’t fight when Gio was dragged out from under him, just held the asshole’s glare. “The next time I see you, there won’t be anybody to stop me, you got that?”
Gio spluttered, bloody flecks shooting in the air as he coughed and tried to breathe.
“I will end you,” Tobias promised.
“You won’t need to.” Lazarus stepped closer, meeting Gio’s stare. “Because I’ll do it for you.”
“Uh-uh.” The bark came from behind me.
I jerked my gaze to Logan as he strode past me. His movement was just a blur as he lashed out, grasped Natalie’s wrist, and twisted until her knees buckled and she cried out in pain.
“Let go of me!”she screamed.
I sucked in a hard breath, watching the merciless male as he twisted harder. The knife dropped to the ground before he shoved her away. She stumbled, cradling her hand as she shot a tearful stare toward Nick.
But he was sickened by the sight of her. His lips curled, hate burning in his eyes. He didn’t need to say a thing before she broke down and sobbed. “You hate me. You really hate me.”
“Come near any of us again and you'll find out just how much.” His voice was stone cold.
Her shoulders slumped as she wrapped her arms around her middle.
“Get her out of here,” Lazarus snapped.
“You heard him,” Logan barked, jerking his gaze to a car still idling behind us.“Move.”He took a step toward her. She flinched, fear flaring through the pain in her eyes.
She stumbled toward the car, leaving us behind. Still, I couldn’t help but watch her leave.
“She’s gone now,” Lazarus murmured, his gaze on me. “She won’t be bothering you again.”
The way he said it, I knew she was about to have the most terrifying ride of her life. They might not hurt her, but she’d know just what would happen if she tried to come after us again.
“The rest of you better clear the fuck out, unless you want to find yourselves on my goddamn shit list.”
Movement broke out in an instant, the rest of them shoving up from the ground and stumbling away, racing back to the house.
“You wanna explain this?” Lazarus glared at Tobias.
I knew who he was, knew his reputation as being dangerous. Yet Tobias just turned on him, meeting his stare with his own. “Explain? Sure, Lazarus. Let me lay it out for you,brother.This asshole decides to call Ryth and tell her you’re holding out on her, that you know exactly where her dad is, and the only way he was gonna tell her was if she met him face to face. But it wasn’t about her dad, was it? He wanted to lure her here alone.”
Anger ripped through those blue eyes of the Mafia asshole. “That true?” He jerked his gaze to Gio.
But the spineless asshole didn't answer, just swung his glare to Natalie as the car doors closed. “It wasn’t my idea.”
Lazarus stepped toward him. “But you went along with it. You lured a young woman out in the middle of nowhere at night. A young woman whose father works for me.”
Gio flinched. “He stole from you.”
“That’s notyourbusiness, now, is it?”
