He stands like a darkish shadow within the door, his eyes blazing with fury whilst his face stays nonetheless as a pond. His arms are stretched out earlier than him, pointing a pistol at Roy, his physique pulled tight as if he’s able to act the moment he must. He exudes the swish energy of a predator, and I’ve by no means been happier to see him.

“Who the fuck are you?” Roy spits, swaying on his ft as he appears previous the gun pointed at his face.

Santino doesn’t look away from his goal as he calmly says, “Renee, are you alright?”

I nod at him shakily, edging away from Roy to place house between us. “I’m okay.”

“Good, I would like you to depart the room and go sit in my automobile. There’s somebody ready so that you can preserve you secure whereas I deal with some enterprise.”

“What are you going to do with him?” I ask as clamber to my ft.

“That’s for him to resolve,” he solutions, his tone eerily impartial.

He doesn’t take a look at me as soon as, whilst I brush previous him and stumble out to his automobile. For some cause, that doesn’t fear me or make me really feel like I’m not value his consideration. It’s clear he’s targeted, nearly as if he’s in his component.

I don’t trouble taking a final take a look at Roy. No matter is about to occur, he truthfully has coming to him. I don’t assume Santino’s about to harm him—Roy’s an excessive amount of of a coward to place his personal pores and skin on the road—but when he does, I can’t say I’ll be sorry.

I don’t know what sort of person who makes me.

Proper now, I don’t actually care. I simply need out. I simply wish to go the remainder of my life with out ever seeing him once more.

***

The person ready for me in Santino’s automobile is known as Marco, and he’s good at wanting the opposite approach as I cry quietly within the again seat. At one level, he leans over the middle console from the driving force’s seat and palms me a field of tissues.

“Don’t fear about Santino, alright?” he says. “He’s the most effective within the enterprise.”

Earlier than I can ask him what he means, the automobile’s door locks click on, and one of many again seat passenger doorways swings open. Santino slides in, wanting cool as a cucumber as he barks “Drive” at Marco. The automobile begins and peels out onto the street as Santino pulls out his telephone and begins typing one thing.

Nobody speaks till we’re a couple of blocks down the street from the motel.

“How’d it go?” Marco asks casually, glancing by the rearview mirror at us.

“As anticipated,” Santino sighs. He provides away nothing of what occurs in any other case, however Marco accepts his reply with a nod.

“Did you …” My phrases die in my throat as I ponder what he means by “as anticipated.” As a lot as I wish to assume that Santino isn’t a foul man, I don’t actually know if that’s the case. He had a gun, and Marco stated he was “the most effective within the enterprise,” no matter which means.

“We’ll discuss it as soon as I’ve gotten you someplace secure,” he assures me, his voice lastly softening a bit. “We now have quite a bit to speak about, sweetheart.”

At that, I don’t ask any extra questions. I belief him when he says we’ll discuss it, exhausting as that’s to imagine. I don’t have any good causes to belief him, however the reality of the matter is that he’s been there for me proper after I want him, not simply as soon as however twice over the previous two days.

It’s solely once we’re inside his penthouse that I really feel like I can breathe once more.

Earlier than I can converse, Santino does. “Why did you permit this morning?”

I can really feel his eyes on me as I put house between us. I have to assume clearly, and I can’t try this if he will get shut. Even within the automobile, his presence had my coronary heart racing and lust constructing in my veins. If we’re going to speak, I wish to do it as objectively as I can.

“I discovered one thing in your workplace,” I begin. “I panicked. I wanted house.”

Santino nods as he prowls nearer, his jaw so tight that when of his muscular tissues is twitching. “You weren’t speculated to be in there.”

“It’s not such as you forbid me.”

“True. I simply thought you had extra frequent sense than that.”

I stifle an incredulous snort. “And was it not frequent sense to depart after I came upon you’d been wanting into me?”

“That’s an excellent level, little woman,” he smirks at me, his voice scarcely greater than a purr. Greater than ever, he looks as if a beast on the hunt. That’s after I understand I is likely to be his prey—why am I so okay with that? “So, does that imply I ought to punish you? Or reward you?”

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