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I want to be the one to take him down and I don’t want to have to wait for permission. He needs to be dealt with. Hopefully, he has saved me the time of making the request.

The door bursts open and my two guys appear, firing at the men on the other side. I bare my teeth and rush around them. I’m not about to hide like a trapped mouse.

“Boss, no. We have orders to keep you safe. Get back,” Giorgio says.

I ignore him and rush out of the room. I move like the trained killer I am. I shoot the first guy who comes into sight through the neck, then put two into his chest. My next bullet goes through the skull of the guy behind him.

I turn to my left and take three more out. The rage coursing through me fuels me to keep moving forward. I feel Giorgio and Armando behind me, but I keep my focus on the targets ahead of me.

I don’t stop until both my guns are smoking and there’s nothing left but the sound of my breathing and Giorgio making the call to Uri to inform him of what has happened.

My chest is heaving. My head feels like it’s about to explode. This isn’t enough.

I need to kill something else to feed this bloodlust that has awoken within me. It’s not that I can’t be the savage my brother is. I chose to be the calmer of the two. Not now.

“He wants to speak to you,” Giorgio says as he holds his phone out to me.

“Hello,” I say into the phone, seething.

“You know what to do.”

“I do. Give my apologies to Don Trovati. His brother asked for this.”

My actions from here might just start a war. I can’t be held accountable for how far I take things, and I will take things far. They came for those I love. It is only fair I return the favor.

“Done,” Uri says and hangs up the call without another word.

They have awoken a beast I won’t be able to put to rest until I have sent a message. After all, Trovati has sent these men thinking they were targeting the man who makes them hush.

I have to set an example in my brother’s name. I may not be able to touch Leonardo Trovati, but no one said anything about the ones he loves and who are close to him.

“Get a cleaning crew in here and call the tailor,” I snarl as I toss Giorgio back his phone.

CHAPTER 16

The Last Fit

Leonardo

“I’m excited for you to come back to America with me,” Regina says from across the table from me.

I look into her blue eyes and smile. She smiles back at me as she runs her hand over all that thick, lush blonde hair I love running my fingers through. I plan to hold it in a tight grip while I fuck her later tonight.

“I told you if you stick with me, I’d give you the world. Look at you now. You get to travel from the States to Italy and all the other places I go,” I say with a smile on my lips.

“It’s all a dream come true.”

“How’s the apartment?”

“I love it. Although I thought I was going to stay with you,” she says with a pout.

“You will. I just wanted you to have a place here of your own. My gift to you.”

Her eyes light up at the mention of a gift. I have my reasons for not letting her move into my estate. None of which she needs to be worried about.

Regina has been my girl for three years now. I’m thinking about making her legit at the end of the year. She will make a good wife for a man like me.

Things are starting to look better with each day. The families I’ve aligned myself with have been talking about helping me move Alessio out of my way. My older brother has become set in his ways and it’s time for new blood.

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