“Inform him,” Giovanni encourages.

I love his power. Whereas there’s clearly one thing blossoming between us, he’s urging me to make things better with Luca as a substitute. It’s selfless and solely makes me need him extra. After days of being by Giovanni’s bedside, not realizing whether or not he would make it or not, I’ve answered a query that lingered in my thoughts not that way back.

The reality is, I don’t suppose I may stay with myself if something occurred to Giovanni, and that’s solely the primary layer of my guilt.

Lastly, I nod in settlement, sliding down the mattress to renew my earlier place. This time, Giovanni leaves a spot between his arm and chest for me to slide into. The gesture is good, the second feels pure, and collectively, our power turns into exhaustion as we fall again to sleep in one another’s arms.

Levi

Raf, Luca and I all sit within the den, awaiting our chief’s impending arrival. Raf has information. Luca already instructed us the excellent news about Giovanni waking up, now it’s simply as much as Sera to resolve what we do subsequent.

The previous few days have been rocky. Luca and Sera have barely mentioned a phrase to at least one one other. Luca and I are nonetheless speaking, however there’s the elephant within the room that retains blowing its trunk at me to talk to Luca about what occurred between us.

How do you even deal with one thing like that?

It got here out of nowhere, like a storm by no means picked up on a radar. Luca and I’ve shared Sera, and that was all it was ever meant to be. I don’t know when issues modified, nevertheless it’s harmful new territory. Kissing Luca is harmful territory.

Sera desires us each, and we’ve been working exhausting to offer her that. Someplace alongside the way in which, although, we’ve blurred the traces. I’m not saying I hate it, as a result of I don’t. Then once more, I can maintain telling myself I don’t like guys, however my actions stay a contradiction to my phrases. Even now, I discover myself drawn to Luca in his grey swimsuit, the shirt open on the prime to disclose a few inches of his tanned chest. He’s sporting a black eye from Sera’s fist that’s solely simply beginning to fade, however he isn’t bothered by it. I believe deep down he is aware of he deserved it. He wasn’t precisely taking it simple on Sera the evening Giovanni was shot.

Footsteps echo on the wood stairs earlier than they enter the room. All of us flip to see Sera approaching us, her hips swaying with each intentional motion. She seems to be contemporary, like the previous couple of days haven’t been hell for her. Along with her hair pulled again right into a low ponytail and her make-up close to non-existent, she seems to be fiercely stunning. Even the reduce on her brow that has light into the tiniest scar makes her look badass.

“Hey,” she breathes out, her eyes touchdown on us.

There’s a special response on her face for every of us. For me, I see the fondness we’ve at all times shared. For Raf, she’s battling between gratefulness and irritation. However the worst is held for Luca, as a result of for some purpose, she’s harboring guilt. I’ve seen that look so many occasions by now that it’s odd to not see her trying like that. The very fact it’s held for Luca over one thing that occurred between them a number of days in the past sits heavier than some other time, although.

Luca locks his blue-eyed gaze with mine, and I’ve to avert my consideration, hoping he doesn’t discover that I’m reluctantly interested in the fucker.

After our go to to Zeke down on the marina, we’ve gathered a hell of much more info. However with Sera refusing to depart her bodyguard’s aspect, we’ve needed to sit on it and wait. We’re all itching to share what we’ve discovered, however Sera takes her time, getting comfy at her desk.

“Okay,” she huffs. “What do you might have?”

Raf is the primary to talk. By the way in which he stands so shortly, I’d say he’s greater than conscious of the sickening stress suffocating the room.

“I couldn’t discover something on our mole, everyone seems to be clear.”

Sera offers him a pointed look.

“Okay,” Raf chuckles. “As clear as any man beneath your management may be.”

“What in regards to the man on the compound?” Luca asks.

Raf shakes his head. “I went via the footage from the drones that evening. Nothing. Whoever it was doesn’t wish to be discovered, and proper now, I’m completely satisfied to maintain it that means in case you are?”

Sera nods. “It’s not my first precedence, however the mole scenario continues to be regarding. We have to shut ranks on this.”

“We’ve already gotten rid of Greco’s males,” I say. “After the capturing, we came upon The Vultures had a leak. We didn’t wish to take any possibilities with males that weren’t our personal.”

“It has been taken care of,” Luca assures. He nonetheless doesn’t make eye contact, although.

“Okay…” Sera glances at Luca for extra, however she’s simply staring in conjunction with his head. After a beat, she turns to Mancini. “What’s subsequent then?”

“The twins have deliberate their assault on the second warehouse,” Raf solutions, including to the already lengthy record of issues we have to deal with at present. “We put it off after current occasions, however in the event you’re completely satisfied to offer us the go forward, they’re able to get their boots on the bottom.”

“Numbers?” Sera asks, immediately becoming into the function she was designed for.

“Lower than earlier than,” Raf solutions with unbridled certainty.

Sera doesn’t query him on that both, she simply nods. “I need the identical message despatched, Mancini. Destroy what’s theirs.”

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