ontation erupte
latile. The dark circles under his eyes wer
ing me was eating away
he only person who could put up a
him in the ruins of ou
ided the place, smashing the mahog
dead center in
d possessed the deadly, cold precision of a master snipe
doors behind him. He unbuttoned his suit ja
stol squarely at Lev's chest. "I should have put a bullet in
e a brother, and we covered for you! And this is how you
! You all looked down on me. I was just a stray dog you kept for amusement. And your sis
itch!" Dominic bellowed. "You don'
creamed, drawing his own w
bullets tearing through th
with a death wish. Once their magazines ran dry,
erturned tables, tradin
drove his knee fiercely into Dominic's ribs. Lev had spent five years clawing his way up th
e from his belt. In one horrifyingly precise arc, he slashed deeply
agony, his weapon cl
the bone, leaving hi
s practica
bar, clutching his ruined arm as blood
ing from his broken nose. He wiped his face, st
hable Dominic Moretti. Look at you now. You can'
fingers toward
n, and Yuri walked in, draggi
eight-year-ol
d covered in grime. Her face was bru
terically, screami
eked, flying across the room to place m
ly unseen-a phantom m
ly bleeding arm, he tried to crawl forward, but a
d! She's a little girl! She loved you! She use
face t
a second, I saw profound disgust flash
lawing need to force me out of h
ed hand and slowly wrapped his fingers around her slender, fr
eezing like a
Dominic, his voice lo
e out of hiding. Make her walk through those doors right now,
as Lev's thumb pressed against her
my brother, phantom tears streaming endlessly down my f
at Mia's pani
ng moment, he realized there was no reasoning with a man
ion, and utter defeat. "Fine, you want her?! You want
p on Mia's neck, letting her gasp for air, but h
bar, tears mixing with the
o deliver the killing blow that w
ice a guttural rasp. "She didn't run off to Europ
with your lie
roared, slamming his goo
witched, and
rgei's bastard son, they put a million-dol
a dead man. So she staged that fight. She said those vicious things to break
fr
o instantly vani
fia boss evaporated, replaced
you talk
hey had a body," Dominic wept, his defenses ut
ur leather jacket. She took your wallet. She go
d completely away
all color until he looked like a corpse
d unbearable sorrow. "She took a sniper round to the shoulder, and then... she set the car on fire. To mak
zing past his lips. He stumbled back a step.
ed, his voice echoing off the exp
o! She burned to ashes,
u wouldn't blow your own
at you've done to the peo
ou ever co
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