Page 162 of Assassin's Obsession

"So what if I did know? Bianca's fine. Candi's fine," Nina spits. "You'd be throwing it in my face if she wasn't."

"They fucking kidnapped her." My voice sounds loud. I never noticed the acoustics magnifying sound in here before.

Nina tries to rear back in the chair.

Salvatore lays a hand on my shoulder. "You alright, brother?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" I ask. This is what I do.

"I've never heard you shout before."

"Because I don't shout," I say dismissively.

His raised brows mock my words. "Looks like you do now."

Huh. I guess I do.

"You put Candi and Bianca's life at risk." I carefully modulated my voice this time, keeping the emotion out of it.

The only person who gets my unfiltered emotion is Candi. Even when I'm furious, I act on it, but I don't express it by yelling.

Nina eyes Salvatore like he's the dangerous one in the room. "They said they wouldn't hurt Bianca."

"Butmia amatewas fair game in your eyes?" I ask.

"Candi deserves what she got. I know you did something to Gino because of her. Because she thought she was too good to sell her ass like the rest of us."

"Candi is better than you." It's got nothing to do with whether or not she sells her body for sex. "Because she's a decent human being and you're not."

Candi would never take money to set someone else up to be harmed. She's got me to protect her soft spots.

"You're a rat." The disgust he feels toward Nina infuses Salvatore's voice. "You sold our secrets. You were willing to riskmy wife'slife in order to get some petty revenge for astronzoI would have killed if Angelo hadn't. "

And if I had killed Gino earlier when he first leered at Candi like she was a commodity, he would not have been able to cause Candi and Bianca so much stress. That's a lesson for another day.

"I knew you killed him. I knew he was dead because of her." Nina spits at me.

The globule of mucus lands on the floor a good two feet away and I roll my eyes behind the skull mask.

"I'm not cleaning that up," Salvatore bitches.

"The sanitization process will take care of it." And any other DNA left in the room.

I jerk my head toward the panel that opens the floor. Salvatore gets my meaning immediately and walks over to activate it. The floor drops and starts sliding away from where Nina is sitting.

On the last flip over my forefinger, I grip my knife instead of flipping it again. "You've got such a hard on for Gino, you can spend the rest of eternity with him."

"No! You can't throw me in some pit to starve to death. You can't do that!"

"Don't worry. I won't."

"I knew you had a rule about killing women," she says smugly.

"Wrong." I step up behind her and pierce her jugular, pulling out the knife immediately. "My rule is about torturing them."

Her blood sprays in an ark into the soup and she bleeds out in seconds. When she's dead, I unstrap her and toss her body in.

"I wondered if you had a rule about women too when your mom survived kidnapping your woman." Salvatore remarks.

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