Dante spun toward th

see almost nothing. The emergency lights had failed, smoke curled through the broken wind

Moretti, and y

mused and ruthless, but I had never seen what crossed his face now, a

her

d instructions," the str

his finger slid away from th

r em

ke

k I could feel Dante looking at me and nowhere else. "Take all of it," he said. "The money, the territor

g bloomed along my neck and I gasped,

The arm around me went slack. I stumbled forward, and Dante caught me before I hit the floor. When

his palms, turning it toward the weak light fro

d before armed enemies without blinking and watched older men beg for mercy across his

othing,

t, and for one dangerous second I let myself stay there, wanting to believe that the f

about me when you can't explain

did not wo

em very

d not have come into my hou

hired som

lieve I would arrange your murder a

what to beli

ld shout. Instead he holstered the gun, shrugged off his jacket, and settled it ar

ing anywher

sn't a r

er why I don'

you sleep, Isabella. But you will not spend anoth

ecause I trusted him, but because the dead man on the floor suggested that Da

a third waited on the balcony, and a fourth was testing every window lock. Dante dismissed all of them except

ithout being searched. I want every camera recording from the l

dead ma

t who se

curity system was shut down from inside the house

e a document where I would find it. Long enough to arrange all of it.

Who knew you would be

on

hi

my phone. I

ou had left

shoulders. "You want answers? So do I. I want to know why my name is on that page, and

at all, and somehow that made him more d

rcumstances right before you decided that marryi

owly. "Who told you hi

d to. I ha

the qu

chin. "Doe

illed your father may be the s

stood in the rain outside a warehouse, beside a black car, speaking to someone whose face th

her, the only f

taken?" My voic

before your

you ha

is expression softened, but only slightly. "Your father w

veryone knew. No one had ever tol

ather's murder," Dante said, and stopped, and

straight i

r fa