Page 64 of His Cursed Heart

"Let me worry about that." I say.

"Sei testardo proprio come tuo padre." I freeze. This isn't Russian.

"You know Italian?" I say with a calm voice.

"How else will I be a step ahead of Hanibal?"

Makhim asks with a smirk.

Very interesting.

"Are you aware he's my father-in-law?" I have a feeling he doesn't care.

"Do you like him?"

With a smirk, I repeat my wife's words: "I'll like him better dead."

"Then you can put the pieces together." Yeah, I can.

He wants to kill Hanibal. That's why he came here.

I move my chair further back and open a drawer full of papers. I put aside thousands of papers to find the note given by Orion.

When I find it, I give it directly to Malkim.

"What does this mean?" Makhim, with a raised eyebrow, takes the note and read it.

His nostrils flare and he moves his head up quickly to look at me.

"Who said this?" He asks with a rough voice.

"Hanibal. To Althea." I say and my hands are turning white.

What does it say?

"That bastard."

"Makhim." I say with a low voice.

" 'You're into a castle full of men who would do anything to have this pretty scared face in their sheets.' " And then it's quiet.

I feel the room getting hotter. My hands are trembling.

"What?" But I don't need him to repeat. He looks at me and then put out the cigar.

"I want him dead, Keaton. He took something from me a long time ago, and he still thinks he got away with it." His wife. The words he said to her are living in my brain. How can a father say that to his own daughter?

I want Vincent.

Althea thinks he'll do something to Vincent. Is Hanibal the reason why Althea's walls are up?

One way to find out.

"Then let's kill him." I say and determination installs in my veins.

Makhim smirks and offers me his hand. I shake it and without another word, he's out of my office.

I walk toward the painting room and I see Ivan outside of it.

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