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He didn’t let them go though, simply used them to pull me closer. “I’m not wrong, Navy. You’ll see. Remember who he is.” He nodded, like he was trying to get me to believe him. “I’m gonna take him down if it’s the last thing I do.” He let go of the keys and I swayed back a little, my mouth open in shock as he walked backward. “And if that means I have to take you down with him, I will.”
He took two more steps back, pulled out his sunglasses, then slowly placed them on the bridge of his nose. “Daughter or not, I won’t bend the rules for you. You made your choice and now you’ll have to live with the consequences.”
He spun around, showing me his back and the three yellow letters.
“Are you threatening me?” I called after him.
He held his hand in the air, not bothering to turn around as he replied, “Not a threat. Just a promise, Navy. A promise I’ll keep until my last dying breath.”
* * *
DANTE
“He’s up to something,” I told Lorenzo, feeling the burn in the bottom of my stomach. My anger was building the longer Lorenzo sat in silence. It had been a week since we’d been watching Gio Pozzi’s men.
Seven days since Romeo dragged me off the bloodied man on the ground.
“We have to tread carefully,” Lorenzo said, leaning back in his seat and stroking his finger over his bottom lip. He was thinking, trying to come up with a plan. But while he was taking his sweet-ass time, we had no idea what they were up to.
“He should have declared all of his business to you,” I growled, frustration crashing through my body like a tidal wave. I’d been on edge since that night. The monster was dying to get free again, to let loose, to cause pain and havoc.
It was harder to keep him locked away now that he’d had a taste of the blood again.
“Patience,” Lorenzo warned, his gaze snapping to mine. “If we move before we have all of the intel we need, then we’re going in blind.” He paused, letting his words sink in. “We need to bide our time.” He turned his attention to Remy. “This is all you work on from now on. I want every single thing you can find on them.”
“Got it.” Remy nodded, clutching his laptop to his chest like he always did. He didn’t trust any of Lorenzo’s computers.
He stood, about to leave, but I stopped him in his tracks. “He shouldn’t be working off-site.” It had been on my mind for a while. Remy was holed up in his tiny apartment all of the time without an ounce of protection. That wasn’t what I’d brought him here for. He was supposed to be part of this, just like everyone else.
Lorenzo stared at me, waiting for what else I had to say. So I took my opportunity.
“The command center is barely used. He should have that.”
Remy shook his head. “Not safe enough.”
“Then make it safe!” I growled, slamming my fist on Lorenzo’s desk. I was sick and tired of not being listened to. “Make it as safe as you can. Do whatever the hell you want to the place.” I stood, the chair I was sitting on falling to the floor as I moved over to the safe. I knew this wasn’t the only safe in this office, but it was the one everyone knew about.
I input the code, then it bleeped, a click sounding as the door popped open. Reaching inside, I then grabbed three stacks of money—at least thirty thousand—and threw them at his feet. I spotted Lorenzo’s raised brow at my move, but he didn’t stop me, just watched with a slight grin on his lips.
“Outfit it, make it yours. We need you here, safe, working, not in some grubby apartment that doesn’t even have its own bathroom.”
I was panting, my breaths coming quicker, the monster threatening to escape.
I needed to leave. I needed to get the hell out of here.
So I spun around, marching out of the door, just in time to see Navy walk into the living room. I paused. I didn’t want her to see me like this. She’d kept the monster at bay for the last week, but now it was time for me to do it on my own.
There was only one way I could do that.
I needed pain. I needed to hit something—someone.
It was the only way out. The only way I knew to put him back to sleep. So instead of walking out the front doors, I slipped through the kitchen and out the back, heading straight for my car.
I was running away from them all, but most of all, I was running away from myself.
* * *
NAVY
