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