Page 102 of Broken Prince

I looked at him with my eyebrows arched. Who walked around with a silencer in his pocket?

“What? I’m always prepared.” He shot the lock of the door in a soft thud.

“I’m going to kill them,” I muttered to Dom as soon as Matteo walked in.

“I know.”

Dom and I retrieved our guns and walked behind Matteo. It was clear that they used this warehouse for a lot of things that were questionable from our family rules.

We walked silently following a dim light and muffled voices in the distance.

Dom nudged me with his arm and jerked his head to the left.

I looked to see a box with Russian writing on it. I could bet it was weapons. Benny was dealing weapons with the Russians or the Armenians… That man was even more stupid than I thought…or maybe not; he took the prize when he stole my woman.

“You shouldn’t have taken her, Benny; it was not smart,” Matteo said with a stern voice.

“I did it for us, Matteo. She knows too much.”

I revealed myself from behind a shelving unit and came to stand beside Matteo, Dom taking his other side.

Benny tensed as I looked around and found Cassie on a chair in the middle of the room, her arms tied behind her back, her ankles attached to the chair legs. Her head was hanging down, her chin to her chest. Her beautiful red hair falling like a veil over her face, hiding what I longed to see most.

Savio moved behind her, his gun much too close to her for my liking.

“Picking sides, Matteo?” Benny asked, his frustration evident. “What happened to the simple observer role. As far as I know, I have not broken any rules. She’s unclaimed.”

Matteo shrugged. “And I’m just here…merelyobserving.”

“Don’t worry, Gianluca, maybe I drugged her a little more than I should have, but she’s still breathing.” Savio sneered. I didn’t miss the unspoken ‘for now.’

I will enjoy killing you.

“You took what was mine,” I told Benny, trying to rein in my anger.

“Please, Luca, she is just a little girl—a maid to whom you told everything without swearing her to the famiglia. We don’t like loose ends. I’m fixingyourmistakes.”

“Is that why you killed my family?”

Benny took a step back in surprise.

“W-what are you talking about?”

“My mother and sister? What monster does that?”

He shook his head. “This is insane! You have no proof. I’m not just anyone, Gianluca. I’m the capo!” he roared, the gun shaking in his hand.

“Acting capo, Benny. And not anymore—I took my role back. I never should have given it to you.”

Benny looked at Matteo, his face so red it almost looked purple.

“Yes, he is the capo.”

“And I have proof.”

“You can’t have proof!” he barked. “They were not supposed to be there! They were there because of you. You killed them!”

It hit me like a ton of bricks. He just admitted somehow that he had caused the accident intending to kill me and my father. He was the one who killed my family, the two kindest souls in the world in a power play, and I raised my hand, pointing my gun to his face.

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