“I know,” I whisper, holding her tighter. “I know.”For a long time we just lie there like that, the sound of her crying mixing with the distant hush of the waves through the open window.Then something clicks in my mind.“Hey,” I say softly, “what if you called him? From a payphone. One that’s not
Aurora POVThe hotel turns out to be much nicer than I’m expecting.Gianna and I’s room, while small, has a balcony attached to it overlooking the city. There’s a hammock on the balcony and a small, tiled pool down below with kids already splashing around in it.It’s honestly paradise.Gianna groans
Dominic POVThe second half of the meeting went exactly as Dominic expected: badly.Worse, even, if that is possible.At one point, Francesco nearly knocked over a glass pitcher in his rant about needing “proof” that the Russians weren’t actually in the city and in the middle of planning a coordinat
We merge with the crowd while heading up to the front desk to collect our tickets that Camilla reserved for us, keeping our eyes down as we make our way through the line.The agent barely glances at our passports before printing the boarding passes and handing them over to us. Camilla’s documents ho
Aurora POVGianna grabs the baseball cap she’d stuffed into her bag earlier and jams it onto her head, tucking in her dark curls while we climb into the car parked out back behind the motel. The keys are right where Luca left them the last time he drove us to my family’s estate: right under the viso
Thankfully, he wasn’t that brilliant.“The point is,” Francesco continued, “if they’re here, we need to act now. Before they do.”Dominic’s voice cut through the chaos, steady and calm. “You send out a hunting party without intel and you’ll spook the other families in the city. Showing that much for