My telephone rings on the desk, breaking me from my ideas. I decide it up, answering, “Levi?”

“Ciao, Bellissima,” he purrs. “I simply needed to let you know every thing is getting taken care of. The Torres household already began to scrub up and stock, so we’ll be dwelling quickly.”

Residence. A smile lifts my lips, his phrases making my coronary heart beat quicker. “Good,” I reply. “I’m completed right here at Haze.”

“See you quickly, Dolcezza!” I hear Luca shout over the speaker.

Rolling my eyes, I grasp up the telephone. Giovanni is already standing on the entrance to my workplace once I step out and he doesn’t want me to inform him what to do. He appears to all the time be on my wavelength, all the time in sync with me. It’s what makes him a terrific bodyguard—and a good higher lover.

Giovanni opens the door to the SUV for me, however I skip previous him, opening the passenger door to take up residence within the seat. He chuckles to himself as he walks across the automobile, sliding in beside me. “You by no means stop to shock me,” he feedback, lacing his fingers with mine.

“Would you may have me some other means?” I ask playfully, tilting my head.

“After all not.”

Giovanni peels us away from the sidewalk nearly instantly. His cautious driving lulls me right into a calmness as I watch the buildings swish by us. It doesn’t really feel like lengthy earlier than my eyes shut and my exhaustion takes over. My physique relaxes into the seat, and as I really feel every bend of the highway and mushy swerve of the automobile, I do know we’ll be dwelling quickly.

“CAZZO!”

Screeching tires wake me up, my entire physique jolting ahead and snapping again as my seatbelt kicks in. My chest constricts, my lungs burning because the tightness round me refuses to relent. I’m nonetheless hazy with sleep, however when the solar shines by means of the window and helps me focus, it’s now not my lungs refusing to work, however my whole physique.

“Run, Sera!” Giovanni barks, however my fingers are too shaky to do something.

The our bodies in entrance of us are marching nearer, extra decided. Giovanni is already stepping out of the automobile, gun poised as he warns the tiny military off. “Gio!”

I push open my door, however bullets begin to fly at me. One catches my wrist, the burn of velocity searing my pores and skin and reminding me I’m not as fucking untouchable as I believe. I don’t have my gun, I don’t have any safety however this rattling SUV.

“Sera! Run!” Giovanni shouts once more, however the gunfire blocks out the sound of his voice.

Ignoring his order, I dive into the footwell, listening to the ping of metallic, the smash of glass. There’s nowhere to flee, and as a lot as Giovanni barks at me to run, I can’t. The one security I’ve is that this automobile. And it is perhaps robust, however I do know it gained’t maintain up in opposition to bullets for lengthy.

I slide my palms to my ears, blocking out the sounds of metallic on metallic. I suffocate myself in my knees, clenching my eyes shut and keen for this to be only a nightmare.

However I do know it’s not, and I do know who’s outdoors this rattling field on wheels, attempting to get to me. I cry out for Giovanni, lastly opening my eyes. However he’s gone.

The bullets have stopped and a sickening thud in my chest has my coronary heart sinking as I pull myself up onto the seat slowly. “Gio?” I whisper.

Immediately, the door behind me swings open and I’m yanked backwards onto the laborious floor. The concrete digs into my facet, winding me quickly. I attempt to breathe by means of the ache however it’s an excessive amount of. Black spots dance in entrance of my eyes as I crawl on all fours, however I can barely get away earlier than I really feel the impression in my ribs.

I roll sideways. It nearly seems like I’m floating, however I’m fairly certain that’s the adrenaline coursing by means of my physique to save lots of me from the ache. I heave my physique upright. I’m decided to make use of this rattling chemical to get me by means of this, or no less than battle.

My physique apparently has different plans, and earlier than I do know it, I’m on my again, staring on the blue sky.

It’s all blue… till it’s black.

“Come on, Princess!”

“I instructed you to cease calling me that!” I snap, reaching for Enzo’s leg, however he’s simply out of attain. He’s all the time one step forward of me, whilst children he would taunt me however I might by no means catch him. He’s simply too fast and sensible.

Nonetheless, I push tougher, despite the fact that my arms ache and my chest constricts.

Enzo laughs over his shoulder, darkish eyes glancing down at me earlier than he heaves himself up onto a department. He reaches out, grabbing my hand to hoist me up onto the thick department with him. I wish to push additional, I wish to attain the very high–one thing I haven’t ever completed–however Enzo is the particular person to maintain me grounded. Not solely within the bodily sense, however he’s there to provide me a actuality examine once I want it.

“You’re too straightforward to wind up,” he chuckles frivolously, letting my hand go as soon as I’ve settled onto the department.

I slender my eyes on him and I half ponder nudging him simply to scare the shit out of him. We’re excessive up within the bushes, the valley beneath us sweeping, the branches round us swaying. I prefer it up right here. It’s the one place I be at liberty.

At fifteen, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than I’m thrust into the lifetime of La Cosa Nostra. My father has made these plans ever since I used to be born, when it was confirmed my mom couldn’t carry any extra youngsters. I’m the one and solely inheritor to the Bianchi title now, and my father is hellbent on guaranteeing our place stays on the high.

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