His Forbidden Scarlett
Near the end, he just cried, his shoulders shaking, and there was something almost peaceful about watching the man run out of everything but the truth.
I crouched down again to hear his last words, tilting my ear toward his broken mouth like a priest listening to a dying man's confession.
"Salvatore is coming to Chicago tonight. He'll be at his estate," he finally whispered.
By the time I picked up the gun, he was already dead in every way that mattered.
I wiped my hands on the towel Sergio handed me without my asking. His eyes stayed somewhere over my shoulder, never on me.
I rolled my sleeves back down, buttoned each cuff, and was reaching for my jacket when he cleared his throat behind me