Chapter 5

SADIE

Tears of panic and bitter frustration rolled down my face as his piercing gaze send my thoughts into turmoil. The music faints in the distance, the speaking lights coming from the event darkening my vision of him. Now that he was in front of me, I realised he was the same man who snatched my life, my career, my friends, and my freedom from me. 

My stomach rolled with nausea but worst of all was the suffocating sensation in my heart, the awful sensation that I couldn’t get enough oxygen. I took deep breaths to fight it, but it only worsened. 

His voice was low. “Come here.” I was so startled that I just blinked at him in response. I struggled to wrangle my disjointed thoughts. Was this for real? There was no way Silvio could be here. Or did I drink too much? 

He let go of that man’s neck throwing him off the ground. His steely gaze peered at me intently the whole time as he pulled a gun from the holster under his dark suit jacket. “Come he