Page 158 of Vicious Little Princess

“Knowing that’s possible, that youcanactually love like that, it sounds like there’s hope for you being redeemed after all, huh?” She ran her fingers over my jaw. “And, just so you know, you already are to me. I love you just the way you are. And so will our child. You don’t need to change a thing.”

How had this turned into her giving me a pep talk?

I was supposed to be counseling her on the issues involved in unleashing like she had.

This woman… the way she could impact me… I’d never known anything like it.

I smiled to myself.

She was so fucking perfect for us.

Headlights in my rearview mirror drew my attention.

They’d come out of nowhere.

I hadn’t seen them seconds ago.

There’d been no through road that they could have come from either.

That meant they’d either been parked or… lying in wait.

Adrenaline sparked, and I picked up speed.

The vehicle behind did too.

Then it turned on its high beams, preventing me from making them out and fucking blinding me for a good few seconds.

“What the hell?” Caterina exclaimed, twisting in her seat, only to look away and rub her eyes a moment later.

The car jolted as the fucker behind us rammed into it.

I pulled my gun and cocked it, while keeping the car steady.

But then they came up on my side.

I swung my head to see a black RAM truck with tinted windows.

Just as I went to roll down mine to fire off a shot, they beat me to it.

And then I was looking at that piece of shit, Angelo Simone.

“You killed him!” he screamed across to us. He looked past me at Caterina. “That fucking cunt killed him!”

Fuck.

I fired off a shot, but at this speed and trying to keep the car steady, it only winged him.

“You don’t get to live while he’s fucking gone!” he roared, rolling up his window, then dropping back behind us just as a car zoomed down, headed straight for him, horn blaring deafeningly out into the night.

Not moments later, he rammed me again.

I looked over at Caterina, my gaze dropping to her stomach, as she pulled her own gun, then went to fire.

No.This whole thing was too fucking dangerous.

I couldn’t risk it.

Couldn’t risk her.

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