Page 53 of Innocent Union
“If we,” John says, waving his gun between his friends and himself, “want to talk about your wife, we have the right to.”
“And we want to,” Henry adds. “We don’t know why you’re protecting her. She’s probably slept with half the staff of her household.”
“You guys are playing a dangerous game,” I warn them, keeping my hands up. Mia burrows closer to me. “You don’t want to do this.”
“No, we do,” John says, walking closer. “And we’re going to have fun with your wife while we do it.”
Sam grabs Mia and wrenches her away from me. Her scream rips straight through my heart.
“Let her go!” I shout. Liam tries coming up from me from behind, but I kick him in the shin, making him fall to the ground.Using my knee, I bash his face in. He crumples to the ground, passed out.
“No!” Mia screams as Sam and Henry tear her shirt down.
I run for them, but John stops me when he places his gun against my temple.
“You don’t want to do that, friend,” he says. “We’re going to have fun with your wife. And you’re going to learn a lesson. You don’t mess with the Moretti Mafia.”
I freeze. The Moretti Mafia? “Do you … do you work for Antonio?”
John puffs his chest out. “We do.”
“You’re new, then. That’s why you looked familiar, but I couldn’t place you.”
“We’re his men now. You no longer work with him. You’re on your own now.”
Mia struggles as the men try to take her jeans off. My blood is boiling, and I’m starting to see red.
“What do you think Antonio will think when he finds out his own men assaulted his sister? He’s going to kill all of you.”
“He won’t find out. You’ll be dead.”
I have to act fast. I have a gun in the back of my jeans. I just need to get to it, but John’s gun is pressed against my temple. But the longer I wait, the more at-risk Mia is. The utter terror in her eyes kills me.
“You’ll have to stop me first,” I growl. I smack John’s wrist, and the gun falls out of his hand. I catch it. His eyes widen, and he starts to run away, but I shoot him in the head. The other two look over.
Before they can even move, I kill both of them. Then I shoot Liam, who’s still passed out on the ground. Four bodies all with bullet holes in their heads in my driveway.
Mia crumples to the ground.
I pick her up and take her inside. “You’re safe now. But I need to go deal with the bodies.” I hurry back outside and drag them around to my backyard before anyone can see them. Then I call Jimmy to come clean up the bodies for me.
I go back inside to Mia, who’s curled into a ball on the floor of the living room. All the progress we made and for nothing. Those men tried to assault her. There’s no way this doesn’t affect her.
I crouch beside her, and Mia curls herself into my arms. I hold her while she cries, wondering what I’m going to do next.
I just killed Antonio’s men. That goes against Mafia code. Antonio and I have an alliance, bound through marriage. He won’t take kindly to me killing his men. I can only hope when he finds out what they tried to do to Mia, he won’t be mad at me.
The one thing I am certain of—I’m not letting Mia go. Not once tonight. I’m going to make sure she’s safe, even if it kills me.
I gotthe news my brother died when my mom took me to the hospital to see him.
I stayed at the house with Aunt Sharon for hours until my mom came for me. Finn was still alive at that time but in critical condition. He hit his head so hard; he was in a coma.
When I got to the hospital and saw him lying in the bed, so tiny and alone, I broke down crying. My mom held me the entire time.
“I did this to him,” I whispered.
“What do you mean?” Mom asked.
