LOGIN"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 froze. I wanted to reach out. I wanted to say her name. My hand actually twitched at my side, my fingers wanting to brush against her shoulder just to see if she was still breathing. I felt the eyes of the other employees on me, and I forced my face to stay blank. I swallowed the apology that was
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ I tried to focus on the screen at the front of the room. One of my lead engineers was droning on about the new firewall, pointing at charts and lines of code that usually would have had my full attention. But my eyes kept sliding to the left. I kept looking through the floor-to-ce
He looked up at me, his eyes dark and empty of anything but need. He didn't give me a second to breathe. His hands slid from my waist, one pinning the small of my back against him while the other bunched the silk of my blouse, kneading my breast with a careless pressure. I squeezed my eyes shut,
Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ "Gianna," he said softly. It was the kind of soft that was scarier than shouting. "Yeah?" He turned the tablet around and slid it across the desk toward me. His finger pointed to a string of numbers. "This is the encryption key for the main server. You wrote it as 7-B-4-9."







