Air snorts from my nostrils. I cross the room, rip my knife from the wounded man’s flesh, and shove his personal tongue down his throat. “Choke on that, you infant-stealing rapist cunt.”

“Okay, playtime’s up.” Rafe raps his knuckles towards the plaster wall, leaving marks.

“No. I can’t return and inform her she’s not protected,” I rasp.

Chilly fury fills me to overflowing as I discover one other man nonetheless sucking in his final everlasting breath and crush his windpipe below my boot. The necessity to dosomethingrips rage by means of me like a tactile weapon I can wield towards these fuckers. Something, to provide her peace.

Muttering obscenities in Greek, Rafe crosses the ground, cupping his fingers round my jaw. His brow presses to mine. “You’ve gotten had my again for over a decade. These jobs don’t all the time conclude in a single hit. You realize that, Dom.”

“I do know,” I grumble, unwilling to confess my failure.

Rafe huffs a mushy chuckle nobody may mistake for humor. “So, we don’t win this one. Inform your woman what she means to you, and also you assist her neglect. We don’t cease searching, and we preserve our ears open. We’ll discover him, and we’ll erase his putrid existence from this world. However not in the present day, myadelphos. Not in the present day.”

My brother.

I shut my eyes and drop my knife. Exhaustion washes over me. “It appears like giving up.”

Rafe releases me, guiding me out the workplace door and leaving the groans of dying males to their very own hell. “We play an extended sport, Dom. He gained’t see us coming.”

The nook of my mouth curls up. He’s proper. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the present day, or tomorrow, or subsequent yr. I’ll rip Singleton’s backbone from his physique and lay it at Thalia’s ft.

Proper now, I’ll beg her forgiveness for not presenting her with the trophy I wish to provide her and pray she’ll perceive.

****

I stride into the home, heading for Thalia’s room, however I don’t make it that far. She waits for me within the kitchen, taking part in with a few of Luca’s knives the place she perches on the bench whereas he particulars the best way to take a person aside in seven slices or much less.

Pausing within the shadows, I let the chef discuss. His clean voice dips low and soothing as he describes in intimate element a course of few perceive, and even much less who can pay attention so raptly to his darkish, seductive story.

“This one?” Thalia picks up a slim blade made for filleting.

“Slide it beneath the pores and skin, like this.” Luca demonstrates, passing the lethal edge beneath imaginary flesh. “It falls proper off.”

“He’s proper.” I step into the sunshine, my arms crossed over my chest. “Whats up, Thalia.”

Her eyes flare as quickly as I converse. “Dom.” Her mouth falls open as she takes in my look. “Are you harm?”

I shake my head, letting her come to the conclusion that not one of the blood is mine.

“Ought to I’ve showered first?” My gaze flicks to Luca.

His eyes slim, and he lets out a mushy huff.

“No,” Thalia whispers, sliding off the bench. Her naked ft hit the ground as she patters over to me, standing within the scarlet puddle the place blood drips from my fingers nonetheless. “Is it—What occurred?”

“We didn’t discover him,” I say gently, my coronary heart shredding itself when her eyes fall shut. Brushing her chin up with my bloodied knuckle, I wait till she appears at me once more. “However I personally ended each man on my record who touched you. They may nothurt you, ever once more.”

“Thanks,” she mouths. She steps into me and wraps her arms round my waist, regardless of that I’m coated within the sins of greater than a dozen males, dripping with their last, agonized breaths. And she or he holds me by means of all of it.

My arms fold round her tiny body, although she’s not as fragile as once I first introduced her right here. Scratch that. Thalia wasneverfragile. Scarred, damaged, broken, maybe.

Sturdy.

She’s all of these issues, and as I relaxation my cheek on the highest of her head, the bottom shifts beneath me, and my coronary heart squeezes tight for her.

“I’ll discover him. I promise. I’ll discover out what occurred to your woman, honey.” I cup her face, smudging her pores and skin with the souls of her tormentors, and press my mouth to hers.

She freezes, and for a horrific second, I do too.

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