All Chapters of The Rinaldi Bargain: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

SMOKE choked the narrow Sicily alley. Broken glass glinted under dim streetlights. Bodies littered the wet cobblestones before the fight even hit its wild peak. Silas Rinaldi stood right in the middle of it all, gun in one hand and a curved blade in the other, blood splashed across his coat and jaw like some dark work of art. He was thirty years old, built like a fortress and twice as hard to crack, and he looked thoroughly unimpressed by the slaughter swirling around him. “Let me guess,” Silas called out loud and clear even through the shouting and gunfire, sarcasm cutting sharper than steel. “Damon really sent every last available idiot after me? He must be desperate.” The attacker sneered and waved his weapon. “You die tonight, Rinaldi. No deals. No mercy.” Silas rolled his eyes so hard it was almost dramatic. “Very intimidating.” He moved before the man finished his threat. Bullets sparked off stone walls inches from him as he dove forwa

BLOOD ran thick and dark across the stone floor of the great hall. It pooled fast around overturned furniture and seeped deep into the cracks between ancient rocks. Bodies lay still and twisted deep already. More fell with every step Silas took through the wreckage. He moved like a blade himself. Fast, sharp and untouched while chaos tore the room apart around him. Gunfire roared then fell silent one section at a time until only groans and heavy breathing remained. He wiped the blood from his jaw with the back of one hand and looked down at the last man still standing. The intruder swayed bleeding from half a dozen wounds yet still tried to lift his weapon. Silas kicked the gun away hard enough to send it sliding across slick stone. He leaned down calm as if discussing the weather while blood soaked his expensive shirt black. “Is that all you brought?” Silas asked, tone bored and biting sarcastic as ever. “I told people for years, I r