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"Vincenzo, no!" Gianna screamed, throwing herself forward. "Please! Don't do this to her!" She fought against my hold with everything she had. "Relax, Gianna," I said quietly, pulling her firmly against my chest as she struggled to break free. Under any other circumstances, I would have loosened
"Because she's street-level waste," Vincenzo said, his voice flat, almost bored. "And she made a street-level decision." Dante released Cole, who crumpled to the floor, then swung the laptop around so we could see the screen, "I've got Mercer's footage," he said. "It lines up with his version. Cole
He straightened as much as Dante's grip allowed, fixing his attention entirely on my brother. "I know what the Capone name means. You don't poke a sleeping tiger unless you're looking to get eaten alive. Everything I did tonight was to prove my loyalty." It was convincing and logically structured.
Denise collapsed into herself, a broken, animalistic wail tearing from her throat as her head hung so low her forehead nearly touched the blood pooling beneath her. "That is the truth, Gianna!" she cried. "I was just so tired. You don't know what it's like to have people threatening to kill you eve
Alfonso moved instantly. He lunged forward, grabbing Morgan and jerking her head back until her neck strained. He jammed the barrel of his pistol into her mouth. She let out a muffled, terrified sob, her hands shaking in the air as she choked around the gun. My eyes returned to Denise, locking ont
"But right now... my only job is to make sure nobody ever hurts you again." I couldn't help her while she was pulling against the ropes still wrapped around her ankles. "Stay still." She didn't, "Raphael, please—" "I said stay still." I crouched in front of her and pulled the knife from my belt
I stared at him. Mom laughed harder, "Salvatore!" "What?" he asked innocently. "You think I'd sit quietly while some stranger informed me what I can and cannot do for four hours?" I watched the familiar exchange, the bickering, the teasing. The easy comfort between them, it felt normal. For a fe
"Is everything alright?" I asked, "When you interrupt a meeting without warning," I said quietly, "I generally assume somebody has been shot." That finally earned a reaction. The corner of Vincenzo's mouth moved just enough to almost become a smile. He kept looking out across the city, "No, no eme
──━⊰ 𓆙 ⊱━── The encrypted file was buried deep within three layers of security firewalls on my private server. I didn't need to look at the folder name to find it, my fingers moved across the keyboard on pure instinct, unlocking the video data that I had kept hidden from the rest of the world. I
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ Six monitors cast a cold blue glow across the room. Lines of code crawled across two screens. Financial records occupied another. Security feeds filled a fourth. The remaining monitors displayed data I had been collecting for the last three hours. My fingers moved across the key







