Masuk“Igor called me. Serena reached out, and he knows where she is.” I said to Nico, Enzo, and Luca. “I knew she would remember what I taught her.”I was proud. After Carlos took care of her, he told me something I always knew had to happen. I had to teach Serena to fend for herself in case I wasn’t around. I guess I thought doing it would mean that I had fully integrated her into the underworld.A part of me felt guilty for dragging her into my world, and I delayed the inevitable for as long as possible. The inevitable was teaching her how to fight, run, cheat, steal, and most of all, kill.I taught her slowly until she could repeat all the security measures I had made her memorize in her sleep. I had contacts all over the planet. It was a good thing she remembered what to do when she was in Russia.Proud was probably an understatement.“Where is she?” Luca asked.“She managed to get into a motel. It’s not too far from here. We have to leave as soon as possible. I can’t let Viktor and hi
“You know what the best part of this little stunt you pulled is?” Lily asked as she pushed in and walked into my motel room.I stepped back slowly, refusing to back down. I had a knife tucked into my waist, but I didn’t know if I would be fast enough to fend off her attack. She had two rough-looking men behind her, and she had a gun in her hand.How did she find me? I was careful when I ran away.“The best part about letting you escape is letting you think you finally escaped. Seeing the hope disappearing from your eyes. I love seeing you suffer, Serena.” She said with a smile.I struggled to look her in the eyes without cowering in fear, but it had to be done. I wouldn’t show her weakness, and no matter what happened, I wouldn’t let her take me back with her.“Did you really think it would be this easy?” She asked as she inched closer. I let her get closer to me because backing away would be a sign that I was afraid of her. “I would never allow you to go off just like that. Your fami
From the moment I got out of the hospital, I kept moving. I didn’t have the luxury of stopping. I had a little money, I was scared, and I was in a country whose language I didn’t speak.I was surrounded by enemies everywhere. I didn’t know who would see me and report back to Viktor. It was his turf after all. I kept my head low and walked really fast. It was snowing hard, and getting dark.Luckily for me, Carlos had taught me how to pickpocket. He told me that if I ever found myself in such a situation, the best way to make quick cash was to steal. It wasn’t my best moment, but I was going to do anything to survive.I entered a pub that was very far from the hospital and ordered a vodka, like I assumed any Russian person would. The whole place buzzed with people speaking a language I didn’t understand.I took advantage of the drunk people who saw me as harmless and picked pockets. That, coupled with the money I had stolen from the nurse, was able to afford me one night at a motel and
She was gone. Serena was gone, and I didn’t know where I would find her. The fear I felt in my chest was cutting through me, and I was bleeding from the inside out. I wondered what was happening to her.I always knew she meant the world to me, but not having her by my side threatened to turn me insane. I was on a carnage. I killed everyone Viktor had interacted with in the past few days who didn’t give me answers.Lily was a ghost. She was not a real person. There were no bank records, no employment records, no property, and no flight information. If you had told someone that she existed, they would have told you that you were referring to a fictitious person.Luca was uncovering the tracks she had hidden, but we didn’t have time to meet in the U.S. I knew the moment Luca mentioned that Lily and Viktor were working together that there was a chance they were going to Russia.New York was my turf, and the whole of the U.S was crawling with Italian mafia allies. He knew he wouldn’t collu
“What the fuck do you mean you can’t find my fucking wife?” I asked angrily. I could barely calm down. I was hunting down Viktor like a dog, and her so-called best friend was out there. Either of them could take her.What was the point of having bodyguards if they didn’t protect the woman I wanted to marry? If she could easily slip out of their sight, they were useless if she was attacked.Her phone pinged that she was still in the dressing room of the boutique she was in, which I knew was not the case. I already had a tracker inside her, which she had agreed to the minute I slipped the engagement ring on her finger.There were a lot of factors to consider before you married a mafia boss. One of them was safety. There were enemies in every corner and crevice of my life. I had to put forth the right measures to ensure her safety.I tracked her and saw that she was heading to an abandoned industrial area on the outskirts of New York. I cursed, wondering why she would slip her security de
Lily didn’t take her eyes off me. No matter how much I tried to distract her, she wouldn’t listen to me. She’d told me to shut up more times than I could count and even threatened to sew my mouth shut.Too bad I had a big mouth that I couldn’t keep quiet. Plus, I knew it was probably the last time I would talk to her and get some closure. The next time I saw her, there would be nothing left to say.And I wouldn’t remain on that bed, waiting for Lily and Viktor to take me to hell. Within the hour, I was prepared to risk it all and escape. I didn’t almost die for nothing.“Why did you kill the same people who raised you?” I asked. “They may not have been your blood, but they took care of you.”“They didn’t do it willingly. They tried to take the money my father gave them and run when he died. They didn’t know that I was my father’s daughter. I was trained to fight, blackmail, and kill for as long as I knew what that was.”“My father left my godfather all the leverage needed to make sure
“You reek of sex, Nero,” Nico said to me as soon as I walked into the conference room of our legitimate company.There were other Capos in suits filling the seats. We were there to strategize on how to proceed with a small gang called La Croce di Ferro, which meant The Iron Cross in English.“Fuck
Dominic’s words stuck with me throughout the entire night. He claimed I was bad for Nero, and he was right. Maybe his brother would have still been alive if I had stayed away from his family.But the selfish part of me was glad I did because I had a chance to find out what happened to my parents no
“No, Zio is—” “Not a good man, Serena. Where do you think his ex-wife went? Come on, she cheated on him with my brother. A man like that has a huge ego. He wouldn’t allow her to walk away. Rumor has it that he killed her.” I shook my head. I saw how broken he and Matteo were after she disappeared.
I watched as my fiancé approached Viktor and flirted with him. I rolled my eyes and went outside to wait for her. I wasn’t going to wait for her to do what she wanted to do while staring at both of them.I was going to lecture her about Viktor. He was my enemy and was probably plotting how he was g







