LOGINAdriano slowly lifted his boot, letting the blood drip off the leather onto the concrete as his stare swept across the rest. "Now," he whispered, a terrifying smile finally touching the corners of his lips, "Who else feels like telling me a story?" Morgan started sobbing violently. I shook my h
No, no! "I wasn't even there when they hurt the girl!" Cole yelled, "They brought her to me already bleeding! Brianna was the one who hit her in the head! She used a heavy wooden club from the garage! They carried her in here like a sack of rocks, and I was the one who washed the blood off her fac
Cole’s chest heaved, his eyes turned frantic, like a rat looking for a hole in the wall. "I know how Chicago works. You don't survive in this city by picking a fight with the Capones," he slowly shook his head, "I'm not suicidal." My stomach twisted. No. He was lying. I made a desperate sound
"Move!" Capone guards surged forward with frightening speed. Cole's men reached for their weapons but they never got the chance. One guard twisted a man's arm behind his back before he had even cleared his waistband. Another kicked a pistol across the concrete floor. Boots thundered in every dire
I looked at Cole again. He wasn't even watching us. He was checking his phone. Rage exploded inside me, "MMPH!" I lunged forward as far as the ropes allowed. "If she keeps doing that," he said calmly, "she'll reopen the wound." I wanted to claw his face apart. I wanted to scream. Instead, anoth
Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ Pain. That was the first thing I felt. It was a deep, heavy ache that pulsed through the back of my head. It throbbed with every heartbeat, every breath, every tiny movement. A quiet whimper escaped me before I even opened my eyes. The world slowly came into focus. The ceiling a
I wasn't in a dream. I wasn't at the club. I was in an office, pinned to a desk, with my hands bunched in the shirt of the man who shared a home with me. The man who sat at the dinner table. The man whose father had married my mother. My stepbrother. A violent shiver racked my body, but it wasn'
Vincenzo’s eyebrows furrowed, his jaw setting hard, "Decided what, Dad?" Our father looked at each of us, one by one, "I’ve decided to officially adopt Gianna and Jules," he said, "The legal paperwork is already with my lawyer. It’s a full, binding adoption. Since Jules is still a minor, her mother
I didn't look up from my screen immediately then I slowly raised an eyebrow, my expression flat. "Did he tell you why I threw him there in the first place?" Adriano stopped tracing the map of Indiana. He leaned back, "What did the idiot do to earn a death sentence in the shipyard?" I felt my jaw t
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ Vincenzo sat in the high-backed chair, the light from the fireplace casting long shadows across his face. To my left, Luca was mindlessly stripping down his Glock, the clicking of metal parts. Across from him, Dante was leaning back, his eyes fixed on a stack of legal briefs, h







