All Chapters of VELVET GUN: Chapter 21 - Chapter 25

A little girl born out of love, grew up in anger and just when she found the familiar feeling of love... it was leaving like it never appearedThe days after the funeral were a blur, Amy didn’t cry when they buried her uncle. She hadn’t cried in years not since the night she’d seen her parents’ bodies dragged from the ruins of their own living room. Blood slick like wine, eyes wide, staring at nothing. No, she’d learned early that mourning had no place in a world that fed on pain.But this... this new grief? This rage that burned through her bones like a second skeleton? This was different. This time, it wasn’t just the dead that haunted her, it was the one left behind her stepsister. The girl with light in her voice and softness in her spine, the girl who had no business in the underworld but who Amy had sworn to protect with her life, her name was Clara Finn.Amy didn’t meet Clara until she was ten; her uncle had found out about the girl by accident an old mistress of Amy’s father s

There comes a time where everyone is quiet and hiding like a snake and ready to strike for Amy that day was today. The room smelled of rusted iron, gunpowder and betrayal. Amy Finn stood in the dark, arms loose at her sides, heart anything but she didn’t blink, she didn’t breathe hard. The warehouse had been quiet for fifteen minutes long enough for the Chicago boys to think the place was still theirs. Let them, they’d taken two girls, the youngest soft-faced and trembling was asleep in the shadows, curled under a wool coat Amy had tossed over her like a shroud. The eldest Ellie was somewhere else. Somewhere close, somewhere that had cost too much blood to leave her there any longer. They broke the pact, the rules, the deal between devils. Chicago had made it clear they’d keep backing the Marchettis only if Giulia and her family kept their doors shut to the Finns. No love, no visits, no alliances and definitely no invitations to engagement parties where rumors swirled of Amy and Ellie