Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 89772 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 449(@200wpm)___ 359(@250wpm)___ 299(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 89772 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 449(@200wpm)___ 359(@250wpm)___ 299(@300wpm)
Who was this guy?
If it wasn’t for him holding Sienna against her will, I’d make him eat his words after I sliced off his tongue. The images of what I was going to do to him were the only thing keeping me sane and steady.
I asked the question that’d been plaguing me since the moment he took my own flesh and blood, “What the fuck do you want?”
“What is this? A therapy session? I want what every man wants. Money, sex, power…Adriana gives me all three. Sienna will just be an added bonus.”
“Is that what this is about? Money?”
“I think you need to reword your question, Cruz. You asked me what I wanted, not the man I work for. He’s behind your sister’s kidnapping. I just get to enjoy the perks and fuck me…Adriana was worth the tears it cost me to break her.”
“Break her for what?”
“To be my pet.”
“You motherfuc—”
“Hey!”
Sienna jolted from his sharp tone.
“I’m in control!” He dug the knife deeper into her skin, making her whimper again. “I’m running the fucking show right now! Do you understand me? Piss me off one more time and I’ll make your wife bleed for me, and I’m not talking about slicing her throat.”
I cocked my head to the side, feeling the wrath of his statement. “Who do you work for?”
“Now where’s the fun in that, if I told you? You’re El Diablo, right? Interesting, because all I see is a pussy standing in front of me. You want to know where your sister is? You’re going to have to play his game. It’s actually really fucking entertaining to watch. So dance, devil, dance.” Abruptly, he nodded to his men. “Let’s go, I’m done with him for now.”
I stepped toward him, instantly halting my steps. “I swear to God if you take my wife with you, I will find you and make you suffer a thousand deaths, before I let you die. So think twice,” I warned, meaning every last word. “I won’t stop until you’re mine.”
“I’m looking forward to it.”
His seedy glare shifted to Gino when he added, “El Capo, her father.” The expression on his face filled with rage. “Will bring you back from the dead just to kill you all over again. Think before you do something you’ll regret. Do you have any idea who she is?”
Vitale mocked, “Mafia princess, right?”
“You’re signing your death certificate if you leave with her.”
“What can I say?” He shrugged. “I like to live life on the edge.”
“Sienna,” I called for her and our eyes connected. “I’ll find you. I promise.”
For a split second, I saw everything I wanted through her stare.
Loyalty.
Love.
Trust…
In me.
Without thinking twice about it, I mouthed, “I love you.” For the first time.
Her eyes closed, and I knew she shut them for one reason and one reason alone. She wanted those words to be the last memory she had of me, before I found her again.
“That was precious,” Vitale taunted. “I’ll try my best not to make her fall in love with me, but I have that effect on women. You can just ask your sister the next time you see her.”
“What the fu—”
He jerked around, yanking my wife with him. Rendering me speechless.
What the hell did he mean by that?”
Seconds later, we watched his men surround him as he exited the church with Sienna still in his arms.
Compliant.
Surrendering.
Needing to stay alive…
For me.
It took everything inside of my body, not to chase after them and tear off his limbs with my bare hands.
I’d find him.
I had to.
Not only did my sister’s life depend on it, now my wife’s did too.
Immediately upon hearing their cars drive away, I nodded to my men and we hauled ass behind them. Quickly realizing I was right as soon as I saw my car.
Gino rushed out of the church with his phone in his hand.
“Don’t,” I ordered, aware he was going to call El Capo.
“Cruz, he’ll kill you if you don’t tell him.”
“And they will—” I nodded at my car “—kill both of them if you do.”
The ringleader was sending me on a wild fucking goose chase. An address was written out on the windshield in Sienna’s blood…
Threatening, “Come alone or else.”
Chapter 38
—Cruz—
Three hours later, I was driving down an old dirt road into a community that looked like it was deserted. Almost as if it was a ghost town. A lot of the houses were run down, the grass was unkempt, and no vehicles were parked in the driveways.
No kids playing outside.
No husbands or fathers driving home from work.
There was no life in this neighborhood. They chose it for that reason in itself. Anyone could get away with murder when there was no around to rat them out. I parked my car outside what appeared to be an abandoned home.
Alone.
Unprotected.
Fully armed.
I stepped out onto a dimly-lit driveway in a seedy ass neighborhood, suddenly questioning why the fuck I was here of all places. My eyes scanned the area one last time before I started mentally preparing myself for the unspeakable.