Shadows of the Night
ed S
ca Estate – Th
ed in leathery scraps. Seraphina moved stealthily through the shadowed room, her breath constricted as she ran her fingertips over the worn spines of abando
t merely seeking answers
hich tied the DeLuca family to her own. The ledgers were filled with familiar
d a stack of dry financial reports. Seraphina's heart pounded as she car
r, her breath cau
l contract. Her b
ago when her family had been impoverished. And at the
Ales
marry Enzo. It was always her. The information filled her with ice. Had Enzo known al
e alarm
state, accompanied by the distant boom of a
's stained-glass windows, and sm
e was und
r burst open and one of Enzo's thugs stor
We have
t. She'd gotten her questions answered. But may
ion struck the estate, and
and
DeLuca Est
he dense fog. The estate, once an impregnable citadel, was now a battlegroun
ed to fi
spilling onto the marble floor. The fire quickly spread, engulfing the g
s she turned around a corner-be
aphi
ing her from another explosion that sent debris raining down around them. His
d, seeing blood staining
, his voice tight. "We
Enzo moved without hesitation, drawing his w
e walls. Enzo grabbed her wrist and pulled her thro
e muttered. "We'
struction still echoing above them. Seraphina clutched the co
out to emerge, a figure ap
a mask. G
h, on the verge of being
n in t
Undergroun
ound her wrist closed for a second before lettin
" Enzo's voice
ting his head. "Still firing questi
that man used showed he wasn't just
her, and she felt a shi
e died that nig
n cold throu
he could even blink. But the masked man didn't fli
hina
ew tha
ognition struck her like
from
ret Undergrou
escaped
derground safehouse, Seraphina s
e familiarity of it t
" she whispered, br
oden workbench, his jaw clenche
he?" she
omeone who should have died a long, l
in her lap. It all made sense-the attack, th
d his jacket and pul
he slid it acr
in her hands. She slowly opened it, taking o
e a man who was u
spoke, his voice sinister. "T
True
ehouse – Enzo
at the photo, her
his can't
ther was not an ordinary man, Seraphina. He was the capo of a mafia fa
r like a blow. Her
hispered. "It wasn't
family was gaining too much powe
" she finished, he
she had thought about her l
known. Always. He'd al
nd betrayal seething thro
on didn't ch
. "Then this marria