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Chapter 474: Eve Has Been Kidnapped

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His face did not answer.

She rose. She brushed the dust from her knee.

"Take him," she said. "Put him in the second car. He goes home."

"And the girl?"

"She goes where she was always going." Catherine turned and looked at the gray van, its side door open, a pale hand lying limp on the floor. A thin, cold feeling moved through her. It took her a moment to recognize it as anger.

"Eve Thorne," she said, softly.

She said the name the way a person tastes something they intend to remember.

Then she w
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  • UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD   Chapter 474: Eve Has Been Kidnapped

    His face did not answer.She rose. She brushed the dust from her knee."Take him," she said. "Put him in the second car. He goes home.""And the girl?""She goes where she was always going." Catherine turned and looked at the gray van, its side door open, a pale hand lying limp on the floor. A thin, cold feeling moved through her. It took her a moment to recognize it as anger."Eve Thorne," she said, softly.She said the name the way a person tastes something they intend to remember.Then she went to the van, and climbed in beside the sleeping woman, and the doors closed behind her.***POV: DIMITRIThe container was released at ten past two.It took five hours, three lawyers, a harbor master who had been awake since dawn, and a deputy inspector who stood at the back of the office with his hands clasped and his eyes on the floor, as though he were waiting to be struck. Dimitri did not strike him. He asked three questions, in a low voice, and the man answered them. Then the harbor mast

  • UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD   Chapter 473: I Killed A Man

    The road was a corridor of smoke and flying stone. Two of Marco's men lay in the road. A third was crawling toward the wall, dragging a leg. Dario was against the car with blood down his arm, firing at a man who was firing back. A figure on the wall above her fell with a long, odd cry. Somewhere ahead, the lead car's horn was blaring, a single flat note that would not stop.A man grabbed her from behind.He was strong. He locked an arm across her chest and hauled her backward, off her feet. She kicked. Her heel connected with his shin and he swore in a language she didn't recognize. She drove her elbow into his ribs, once, twice, and he grunted but held on, and he was dragging her toward the gray van."Easy," a voice said in her ear. It was low, almost courteous. English, with an accent she couldn't place. "Easy, Signora. No one is going to hurt you."She thrashed. He tightened his grip. A sharp edge of scar brushed her temple where his brow touched her hair.Her foot struck something

  • UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD   Chapter 472: I Won't Be A Kept Woman

    "I did." She held his gaze. "And I'm breaking it. I'd like you to know I'm doing it deliberately."He was silent for a moment. He was a patient man, and he looked at her now with an expression she could not read, something between respect and dismay."May I see the message?"She handed him the phone.He read it. His lips moved slightly on the last line. He scrolled up, then down, and she watched his thumb pause on the number."I don't recognize this.""It's a private line.""I can't verify it.""Then call Marco.""I've tried." Dario's voice was low. "Twice. There's no signal on the northern road.""Then we don't know.""Signora. We don't.""And if it's real?"He did not answer."If it's real, and I don't go," Eve said, "then I've told Dimitri's father that I'm afraid of him. That his son's woman hides behind a locked door. He'll tell everyone he knows." She kept her voice level. "I won't be that. I won't be a kept woman who's too frightened to speak to a man in a garden.""No one thin

  • UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD   Chapter 471: The Trap

    She lowered the glasses and wrote in a small notebook.0618. Valentino and M. depart. Seven cars. Heading north on A1."Livorno," her second said at her shoulder. He had come up the stairs without a sound. He took the stool beside her and held out a folded paper. "As you predicted.""Antonio's work.""His people. The port, the bank. A two-hour operation, Mikhailov's contact says." He spoke quietly. "Valentino will be on that dock until at least noon.""And then?""A night. Perhaps two. He'll need to stay for the lawyers.""Good."She drank her tea. It was strong and lukewarm and bitter. Below, the last of the cars turned the corner, and the street went quiet.The building was still guarded. She counted from the roof: twelve men around the perimeter, all in plain clothes, all alert. There was one at the main entrance, one at the garage ramp, two at the rear. They were professionals. They were looking for a frontal assault, for a truck bomb, for a team in a van.They were not looking fo

  • UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD   Chapter 470: Antonio Striked

    Dimitri said nothing. He looked at the folder, the grain of the desk, the coffee gone cold.He had meant never to keep her out of his decisions. This was not a decision. It was a distance."One night," he said."One night. Back by morning.""And your men?""Twelve around the building. Another four inside. I'll leave Dario in charge." Marco held his eyes. "He's good, Boss."Dimitri exhaled."I'll tell her," he said....EVE'S POVShe heard him coming down the corridor.She knew the sound of his steps, the length of them, the pause at the bedroom door. She was standing at the window in a robe with her coffee, watching the sun come up over the dome of a church she had never learned the name of, and she turned before he said a word."You're going," she said."How do you know?""You're wearing the suit you wear for bad days."He closed the door behind him. His face was composed, but she could see the tightness at the jaw, the hours in his eyes. He crossed the room and stopped in front of h

  • UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD   Chapter 469: I Want To See The Sun

    "I've slept.""In a chair.""A good chair."She laughed. It came out cracked and soft and real, and he smiled in answer, a rare, tired smile that took years off his face.She lay down. He lay beside her, on the narrow bunk, with his arm across her waist and his chin against her hair. The hull creaked. Somewhere above them, boots moved on the deck....DANTE'S POVHe woke before dawn.The cabin was gray. The round window showed a strip of sky the color of ash. Isabella lay curled against him, one hand tucked under her cheek, breathing slowly. He lay still for a while and watched her face.She is safe, he told himself.It was only partly true. He knew that. Somewhere behind them, her father was tearing through the villa. Somewhere ahead, in a dozen cities, men and women who had once paid him were deciding what his death should look like. And somewhere in between, the thing that had bothered him for days, small and cold and persistent, was still turning over.Whoever kept the antidote ke

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