Chapter 190

“You and I are going to get very well-acquainted, Marianne. See Alexi here; he did me the honour of saving my son from a man who made an attempt on his life. It seems only fair I deal with the woman who made an attempt on Alexi’s wife. An eye for an eye. Well within the code. A debt repaid on my terms.” Santagato breaks into my swirling thoughts, and I snap my focus to him, that sadistic look in his eye that penetrates hers, and I can tell he is looking forward to whatever he has planned. Alexi’s manipulation of that shooting paid off in a way he never meant. Tying up loose ends without getting his hands dirty.

It’s all coming together so effortlessly like he said it would.

Her face drops entirely, and the last desperate look around the room at what I had assumed were her men sees no one stepping in to help her. There is no ounce of fight in those who are not her blood, and no one stops them from leaving. Several men relinquish their guns on the table and file out of the