“You’re leaving, aren’t you?”

“Don’t fear about what I’d doing, child. You can be protected.”

“What if we set a entice?”

“That’s not going to occur.”

She tugged at my shirt then fiddled with the buttons. “Possibly it is best to hear me out.”

“Why do I’ve a really unhealthy feeling about this?”

“As a result of I’m a really unhealthy woman.”

I captured her mouth, holding our lips collectively for just a few seconds as I rolled my different hand round her waist, conserving her shut. The necessity to maintain her was extra intense than ever earlier than, the ridiculous concern crawling via me uncommon. I’d by no means feared dealing with an enemy earlier than. I’d by no means even thought concerning the hazard I’d be in or the accidents that I may obtain.

However I’d been alone. Very a lot alone. Now I had somebody to care about. A weak point. The asshole meant to take what the three of us cherished probably the most away from us.

That meant we would have liked to play the sport smarter. The principles had been solely totally different. Now it was time to regulate them once more to our profit.

As I thrust my tongue inside, I may inform she was trembling. For all her energy, all her brilliance, she was an harmless woman searching for her knight in shining armor.

I wasn’t sure I may scrape off the tarnish in time, however I might strive if it was the very last thing I did on this earth.

She was mine to adore, to guard.

Mine to die for.

After ending the kiss, I locked eyes with first Enzo then D’Artagnan, the understanding of what wanted to occur settling in. It was time to go on the offensive as an alternative of ready for the hammer to fall. Did that place our households in hurt’s method? Possible, but when we waited, the end result can be a lot worse.

And that might enable historical past to repeat itself. The Ghost. In keeping with the Oxford Language dictionary, the definition was an apparition of a lifeless individual believed to manifest to the residing. There have been two males who undoubtedly fell into that class.

Franco DeLuca and Roberto Lazarro.

Whoever was utilizing their deaths in opposition to us had innate data of how our household labored. It was time to slender that down and one of the best ways to try this was to supply one thing they needed.

Our full devastation utilizing our biggest weak point.

The folks we cherished. If I used to be incorrect, we might by no means get well. But when I used to be proper, the sport would finish perpetually.

“I’ve an thought,” I instructed everybody within the room.

And so it was set to start. Might God not fail me this one, single time.

CHAPTER 26

Sophia

Video games.

Secrets and techniques. Lies. Video games.

Now the three phrases had been perpetually woven collectively, the plan that had been put into movement leaving the 2 girls I’d been sequestered with as riddled with nervousness as I used to be. Nonetheless, I sensed the individual accountable was getting antsy himself since he’d been unable to break down any accounts or hijack any enterprise shipments. Even all his faux emails to our shoppers had been blocked.

The ruse had been developed after I’d fastidiously crafted an online. Diamonds weren’t solely a woman’s finest good friend, Mattia’s thought of utilizing them because the sparkly bait irresistible. I despatched a fast electronic mail, which had been crafted as an enticement to Mattia and the others on the DeLuca compound solely seconds earlier than. I used to be pretending to be the Don of the Romano household, comfortable as might be to permit not solely his docks for use in accepting cargo but in addition the newly constructed bridge that linked the island of Sicily to the mainland of Italy. It was a win-win for everybody to the tune of a number of hundred million {dollars}.

Sadly, it was fully falsified, apart from the Romanos had been in on the sport, offering the bodily look of accepting cargo and having it transferred to a number of vehicles that had been presently on their strategy to a warehouse fifty miles west of Rome.

I’d spent hours setting all the things up whereas Mattia, Enzo, and Dar dealt with the problems with the warehouses and companies, the chaotic scenes lastly underneath management. The fires had been little greater than a smokescreen, the perpetrator taking part in extra video games similar to sending the faux to the practice station. Now I used to be sure we’d turned the tide. If the asshole needed to harm us, he’d have to reveal his identification.

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