Page 70 of Daddies' Little Spitfire

She pushed against his chest once again, but his arms justtightened around her. Why wouldn't he let her go? Why wouldn't he just give up already?

"I'm not letting you go," he said. "Calm down."

She let out a scream and clawed at his chest, but his shirt kept her from actually hurting him.

Why did he have to wear a thicker shirt? Did he know that this was going to happen? Did he know that she was going to see Richard and would have to calm her down?"

"Calm down," Oliver said. "We want to ask you some questions."

"No!" she yelled. "I'm not answering any of your fucking questions."

"Who is dead?" Leo asked.

Her whole body went still when he asked that question. Hedda knew she had whispered those words, but she didn't think either one of them heard it.

She didn't want to answer that question. Not now and not ever.

"Hedda," Oliver said. "Leo asked you a question."

"We just want to make sure you're safe, but we can't do that if we don't know everything," Leo gently said.

She looked away from them and shook her head. She wasn't going to answer.

Hedda can still remember seeing Richard on the sidewalk, looking directly at her. It was like he was there the whole time, staring at her and she didn't notice until she was finally getting comfortable.

He looked so real standing there. Giving her the wicked smile.

And the eyes.

The eyes looked so real. Everything was so real and she didn't like that. He wasn't supposed to be alive.

She had killed him.

Watched him bleed out.

And yet he was there, staring at her. Giving her a wicked smile. Almost like he was taunting her in a way.

How was she supposed to deal with that?

"You're safe," Oliver whispered.

Hedda wanted to laugh, but she stopped herself. It wasn't appropriate but also, she didn't want them to think that she was a lunatic.

She wasn't.

But it was funny that he said she was safe.

"I'm never safe," she replied.

It was the truth.

Her whole life Hedda had lived with danger. Her family being the head of the Ricci Crime Family and now her brother being the Don. There was constant danger.

She couldn't get away from it.

There was no way of getting away from it.

Once a Ricci, always a Ricci. Knowing that there will never be a time when there isn't danger.

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