MAFIA’s COLLATERAL’S GIRL
I want to toss Atkins off the balcony, shooting him in the back as he falls to the floor below, but I manage to keep a grip on myself by a thin thread.
My authority questioned and the night ruined … this was a bad plan.
“Leave, all of you,” I growl, my eyes blazing with fury. “Take him out of here, Sean.”
Sean hauls Alfredo’s away by his collar, and they quickly leave the VIP area. Fatima has long since disappeared. I watch them go, feeling a chill run through me. The old Alvrado brotherhood oath repeats in my head like an earworm—You care for no one but the Alvrado’s brotherhood , and you shall love none other than the Alvrado’s brotherhood . That is the way of the brotherhood , and I’m det