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We’re still laughing when Nico bursts through the restaurant door in a blind rage.

He storms over to the table and turns his full anger onto Jade. “Was this your idea? Are trying to fucking get her killed? What were you going to do if someone tried to take her while you were running around town, out in the open? You don’t even have protection on you,” he snarls, his voice deep and savage.

Jade shifts and lifts the corner of her dress to reveal a small gun strapped to her ankle. “I have protection, Nico, you need to calm down.”

“Right. So when eight men ambush you, shoot you to get to Sera, kill Aly—or take all three of you—you think that’s going to help?”

He yanks her out of her chair and pushes her towards two bodyguards standing behind him. “Make sure my sisters get home. Do not let them go anywhere else. And explain to Radmir what she did.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Oh, please,” Jade huffs.

This spikes Nico’s anger even more as he spins towards his sister. He stands over her, his body tense, his voice low. “It’s fine if you want to put your own life at risk by making stupiddecisions, but leave Sera out of it. If anything happens to her—“ His throat closes, and he takes in a sharp breath.

Jade looks down at the floor and swallows hard. “I’m sorry, Nico,” she mumbles.

“Go home.”

She reaches out and takes Aly’s hand. “Bye, Sera. Sorry.”

I smile tightly at both of his sisters.

“You have nothing to apologize for,” I say.

Nico turns to glare at me.

“Don’t you dare look at me like that. You’re the one in the wrong here,” I snap.

Nico grabs my arm, his fingers digging into me as he storms out of the restaurant to leave the final bodyguard to sort out the bill.

He pushes me into the car and slams the door behind me. Immediately, I try to open the door again, but it’s locked, and I can’t get it open from inside.

Nico climbs in, and all the way home, he lectures me about how I’ve taken a dangerous risk, and how stupid it was, and blah blah blah—

All the way up to the penthouse, he doesn’t release my arm until we are inside, and the door is locked behind us.

I’ve been biting my tongue for the whole drive home, but I’m so angry at this point that I can’t hold it back anymore.

Chapter 19 - Nico

Sera spins towards me with intense anger in her eyes. Her breathing is heavy, and her cheeks are flushed.

“You can’t just treat people however you want to and think it’s okay. You aren’t in charge of my life, or your sisters' lives,” she shouts at me, spitting her words out in anger, her fists clenched tightly at her sides. She’s standing strong and confident and ready to take me on.

“My sisters had no right to get involved,” I snap back at her.

“So, you had them dragged away by a bodyguard. Who are you? Who put you in charge?” she hisses.

My heart is pounding as adrenaline courses through me.

I shake my head, trying to shove down the burning rage, made so much more intense by the fear I felt when I got home and found her missing. It took me anhourto track her down. That hour was the worst hour of my life.

I thought they had her. I thought she was being tortured. I was even wondering if she was still alive at that point.

After making some calls, I realized that my sisters had her and I tracked Jade’s car to find out where they were, but it was an hour of pure hell. I was terrified the rivals had taken her. I had the worst thoughts flooding my mind.

“Don’t you fucking get that all I’m trying to do is stop you from getting hurt?” My words flame from my mouth in fear and frustration. The fear of losing her pushes me to become someone I don’t want to be.

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