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In her hand, she holds his phone, which she’s hacked into. “Look at these photos. Does she look familiar?”
I feel my breath halt.
On the screen, clear as day, is a photo of a young woman I’d never seen before, in a close embrace with Enzo.
As I scroll, more pictures appear, making their relationship very clear.
But when I look closer, I notice something strangely familiar about her.
“That’s Sal Lucchese’s daughter,” I say, my voice incredulously low.
“Enzo took this picture just last week. This must have been their plan - use Enzo’s love for her to get information from us.”
As the pieces fit together in my mind, I feel rage simmering within me like an inferno.
My eyes narrow as I turn back to Enzo on the floor, seething angrily and disgusted.
The Lucchese’s have gone too far this time.
“You sold us out for a woman?” I ask.
Enzo smirks at me now. “Love makes you do crazy things, Felix. I don’t expect you to understand. It was simple. I could marry her if I proved I had no loyalties elsewhere.”
“So what?” I ask, “You’re a Lucchese now?”
“I’ll always be a Carlisi.”
“Never,” I growl. I grab him by the collar of his shirt again and pull him up to his feet, pressing the knife to his throat.
“I don’t need to understand. I just need to make sure you pay for what you’ve done,” I say.
“Throwing this all away for a forbidden woman?”
I push him towards the wall, the knife still at his throat. Emily stands behind me, her hand on my arm, her eyes wide with fear.
I feel Enzo’s pulse racing beneath my fingertips as I press the knife harder against his skin.
He tries to say something, but I don’t let him. I don’t want to hear his excuses or his lies.
I simply want him to feel the weight of his betrayal.
I pull the knife back and make a deep cut along his neck. Blood gushes out, staining the walls and the floor around us. Enzo falls to his knees and clutches at the wound.
“You can live,” I say. “But you cannot show your face around here again. Not once more. No Carlisi will open their doors for you from today.”
Enzo looks up at me with wide eyes, fear and pain etched on his face. He knows I’m right.
After a few moments of silence, he simply stands up and takes off, leaving a trail of blood behind him as he goes.
As the door slams shut, Emily finally finds her voice.
“It’s over,” she whispers, her voice barely audible in the room's stillness.
“This is why,” I say, “one should never fall in love with a woman from a warring family. He threw it all away, that bastard, for an enemy’s love. Sal Lucchese should have gotten his daughters married when he could. Now, he’s
stuck with Enzo and me, with a traitor in my midst. I swear if I see him here again, I’ll kill him. Let’s go home.”
Chapter 20
