Page 121 of The Mafia Enforcer's Temptation
She suddenly lunges and snatches up the gun.
Ava points it at me, and we’re close. There’s no way she’d miss should she choose to pull that trigger.
“I don’t know what he gave me. I haven’t looked. I don’t think it was from him. It’s not his style.” Her eyes narrow. “Are you happy? Sad? Gloating? I can’t tell with you, Seamus, because you’re nothing but a liar. That’s why I didn’t tell you about her. You’re nothing but a means to an end. I know you didn’t kill Stan because it’s really not your way, is it? You like to stab people in the back. Or rip their beating hearts out, don’t you? I hate you.”
I hold my hands up slowly, trying to work out if I can grab the gun before she shoots. But we’re too close. And maybe I do deserve her pointing a gun at my face.
“But, Ava, I don’t hate you.”
“What?” she asks with a roll of her eyes. “Are you going to tell me you love me?”
“Maybe.”
“I’m not that stupid and naïve, Seamus,” she says, voice thick. “I began to trust you, even like you, and you… did this. You completely betrayed me.”
“Listen to me.”
Her gaze shifts for a nanosecond.
“I’m done listening to you, Seamus.”
Her hand twitches and moves the slightest bit.
Then she pulls the trigger.
TWENTY-EIGHT
ava
The fury keepsmy legs moving. At first, I wasn’t going to run, but Seamus… I…
Fuck. I had to run. I had to.
I shouldn’t have said any of those things to him.
Why the fuck did I have sex with him? Why didn’t I just shoot him between the eyes and be done with it?
Instead…
I shot the man who crept up behind Seamus from the mouth of the alley and pointed a gun at the back of his head. It only took the smallest movement of my hand to kill the assailant and save Seamus.
Not that he fucking deserved it.
I race around the corner and collapse against the side of a building, my chest heaving.
I should have killed him dead like the vile creature he is. After all, he fucking stole whatever Iosif gave me.
He and his brother announced that they’d be taking over my bratva. This from a man who kills people who hurt animals, who’s killed for me time and again.
I try not to give in to the shaking, ignoring a lone couple who pass me as I gulp down oxygen before taking off again.
Okay, I have to go somewhere. Anywhere but here. I should have stolen something expensive, maybe lifted a wallet for cash, but I’m not as gifted in that kind of theft as Seamus is. I need to distract, and…
My phone.
I pull it out and stare at it. Who the hell am I going to call? Onyx? Maybe I would if I had his number, but then again, he won’t touch anything Murphy. And Claudetta…
I swallow hard because is she still alive?
