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He paled, eyes widened for a second, like he didn’t think I’d react. One nod, and he answered. “Yes, sir.”
I sucked in a hard breath and shoved him out of the door and away from her. “Make sure you remember that.”
Anna just stared at me as he left. “Thanks.” She muttered, moving around her desk and starting her monitor. “That alpha-asshole display is going to help me so much the next time he puts his damn hands on me.”
In an instant, she was pissed at me again. I closed the space, braced against the edge of her desk, and leaned over. “He puts his hands on you inappropriately again and he knows who he’s dealing with.”
She just stared at me. That coldness I’d fought so hard to warm came roaring back in her gaze. “Goodbye, Fin. I’ll see you this afternoon.”
Dismissed…just like that. No one else would dare.
But she wasn’t anyone else, was she?
Marry me…marry me, and he’ll stop fucking pushing us.I stared at her, desperate to say the words. But she sat in her chair, grabbed her wrist guard, and slipped it on before she started punching in commands for her damn program.
I shoved myself away. That twitch in the corner of my eye as I turned and strode toward the door. “He gives you problems, Anna, then I want to know about it.”
“Sure,” she muttered. “Whatever you say,Mr. Salvatore.”
The muscles in my jaw bulged as I strode through the door and back along the hall.
Beep.
I shoved through the door as my phone sounded. I didn’t need to look down to know who it was. I climbed back onto the Maserati and started the engine, kicking up stones under the car as I tore out of there.
I headed for the city, leaving the towering trees of the forest behind. My thoughts returned to those moments on the island. The night where everything changed between us. Where I became not the man she knew and fell for…but the beast she feared.
It was simple, her life for her father’s.
The only problem was…her heart wasn’t something I could bargain with. I gripped the wheel and punched the accelerator, sweeping around the cars like they were standing still and made my way to my father’s compound on the Upper East Side.
Familiar cars sat parked in the parking lot. Only one was a permanent reminder of how far I’d fallen. Max’s Chevy sat in the corner, still there from the moment he'd left with me to go to the island. The only problem was…he'd never returned.
Fin?
His deep growl rang in my head as I pulled into the car space and killed the engine. The morning sun was blinding as I climbed out, hit the locks, and headed inside. Darkness swept around me, the faint stench of cigar and stale sex. Mom had been dead for over six months now. Dead at the hands of someone hunting the members of the Commission.
I wanted to spill blood all over again.
Only I wasn’t the one who had revenge.
No, it was the Commander.
A ruthless Albanian who controlled Cosa Nostra Island.
My father told everyone he killed in the Salvatore name, but the truth was, he killed for himself and left the Commission and its dark, brutal secrets behind for a life with the woman he loved, Xael Davies.
“Fin.”
I flinched with the quiet murmur of my name as I made my way through the meeting room. I cut my gaze toward the darkness and slowed. He melted into the shadows, sleek, soundless…the perfect hitman. Christ, you’d never see him coming.
“Edon.” I called the Devil by his name, and the Commander’s brother stepped out into the light.
He narrowed that cold, stony gaze on me. “You’ve been summoned again.”
I winced, knowing what was coming. “Yeah, well…”
“He hasn’t found it.” The hitman turned and started to walk away. “Whatever he says otherwise.”
