The Mafia Kings' Deadliest Temptation
I climb in, crack the window, and let the night air do what it can for the tremor still living somewhere behind my ribs.
Isa is waiting by the time I arrive, Jake beside her, both of them wearing the particular stillness of people who've spent the last hour imagining the worst.
"Talk," Isa says.
I give her everything. The brooch, the bid, Adriano rising off that platform mid-auction like something had finally interested him enough to move. The way he said my name before I'd given it to him. The exchange in Spanish between the brothers that I understood every word of and pretended not to.