Chapter 66

“Be smart… think about this and calm the fuck down.”

Gino, I presume, as he sounds exactly the same, only not angry, indulgent and calmer. He sounds like someone who knows how to pacify the devil or at least tries to.

“Calm down? Calm fucking down? She had the nerve to run, Gino. Which part of that don’t you get? How this looks and what that means.” Alexi sounds volcanic, and I have never seen or heard him lose his cool quite like this. This terrifies me more than that dangerous tone of his. This one is purely emotional and unbridled anger.

“Why did she run, Alexi, huh? Because you are making her terrified. She’s afraid of you and whatever you did to make her run. You’re only going to make it happen again if you go up there like this.”

Listen to your brother. He talks sense. I couldn’t be any more afraid of him than I have become, and this only fuels that fire. Gino has a very good point. I ran because of Alexi.

“I’ll chain her to the fucking house then