Half a Lifetime Later—My Mafia Princess is Finally Mine
"You want to kill everyone I have left? Go ahead! But the second the first shot is fired, I’m jumping. I’ll go to the rocks before I let anyone take another person from me!"
She choked on a sob, her fingers gripping the shattered window frame until her knuckles were white.
"I won't let you kill them," she managed to say, her hair whipping wildly across her face. "And I won't let them kill you, either."
She was protecting them from me, and she was protecting me from them.
I looked at her, standing there on that tiny ledge in the line of fire, and I felt my entire world tilt. My hand, the one holding the .45, started to shake.