he academy archives to collect my gradu
camera my father had left me before he died. My fingers
daughters of Capos and Soldiers-Mia's new entourage. The tallest
oudly. "Parading around for years just to get t
tightly, my knuckles
, Dante, Silas, and Enzo were walking wi
tched them roughly yank on my dead father
, we should stop them." She took a step forward,
m out, instinctively shieldin
ressive demand for absolute obedience. The girls let go of my
at me. His eye
ed, his voice dripping with disappointment. "Do not take y
my spine ramrod straight. The chill in my
ting down the minutes until my departure,
d the lock, showering the
, escorting Mia as if she
ght up to me. "Wher
sked, keeping my voi
manded. "The one she lost today. Yo
tight. "Stop lying. We know yo
ive me a chan
and started tearing my living
ers, leaving a trail of senseless destructi
ed them
y. My suitcases were already
hort, mocking laugh. "Staging a dramatic exit
her movements carefully calculated. She pulled out the silver moonstone pend
ce and pulled out the necklace. She held it up,
one and looked at me, he
have just said so. I would have given it back. You di
ust put there yours
of her without hesitation. He clearly had no int
der, landing on my still-lit computer screen. Enzo's hard drive was still
eighteenth birthday vid
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immediately stepped in
e you the hard dr
oken. "Forget it. I don't want you
ucian's expression darkened instantly. He reopen
he video, then delete your ow
gs." I reached out t
nd my back. His grip was brutal, his large fingers digging mercilessly into
force us to get physical," Enzo wa
-every single memory I had left of my dead parents-and pressed the del
ou will never appear in any of the Obsidian Synd
threw it hard against my chest. "
. He thought that threat would scare me. He thought
the phone in my
mored extraction vehicle
rip on the handl
ther argument. They thought they h
that the countdown to losing
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