Page 80 of The Secrets We Keep

“I’m supposed to be,” Sienna agreed. “Twice.”

Dom’s eyes never left her, but unlike Matteo’s hard stare, she felt more like Dom was sizing her up to decide if she was trustworthy, whereas Matteo seemed as if he’d already decided she wasn’t.

“Please tell me you didn’t drag me out of bed and across the island at this hour to talk to dead people.”

“Sienna was our inside contact at Gallo Industries,” Luca explained. “Last night, Gallo tried to kill her by blowing up her apartment building.”

“The girl with nine lives,” Dom murmured, still watching her. “So I assume you’ve lost access?”

“They would have rolled out new security protocols immediately. I could try to hack in, but there’s no telling how long it might take.”

“That takes the train derailment off the table.” Dom turned toward Matteo. “What’s the plan, then? Without an inside source, we’re back to shooting in the dark. Blindfolded.”

Matteo sighed. “I don’t know.”

“What about the office? You’ve been going in and out of there for a few months,” Alexei said to Sienna, tilting his head in question and flipping the blade of a knife between his fingers.

“I have very good fake documents. Had. But you need a certain level of access to get onto the executive floor, and the clone I made was blown up last night.”

“I told you,” Dom said. “Collateral damage. We divert the explosives we were going to use to derail the train and take out the office building instead.”

“You want to blow up Gallo Industries?” Sienna blinked in surprise. It was a hell of a lot bloodier and splashier than she thought they’d go for. “A little on the nose considering the accident at my apartment.”

“She’s right,” Carina agreed. “Two explosions so close together will draw suspicions. Suspicions we can’t afford.”

“Do you have a better idea?” Matteo demanded. “Because this isn’t exactly how I envisioned this ending.”

“Yes, I do,” Sienna said. “Use me as bait.”

“What?” Luca demanded. “Absolutely not. I told you before, you’re not sacrificing yourself for this.”

Sienna shook her head and took a deep breath. She’d been rehearsing this part. She had to make Luca see it was the only way.

“Not a sacrifice. Bait. I’m still working under the assumption my uncle doesn’t know I’m alive. And he doesn’t want me to be alive. If I call him and ask to meet, he’ll come.”

“Yeah, because he wants to fucking kill you,” Luca snapped. “No way in hell. We’re not—”

A knock sounded on the door, interrupting Luca’s refusal, and Dom pushed out of his chair to open it. A tall, thin redhead stood on the other side, laptop balanced on one hand, the other poised to knock again.

Her eyes swept the room, and when the woman’s gaze landed on Sienna, she gave a knowing smile and gave Luca a thumbs up.

“What is it, Maeve?”

“Right,” the woman said, stepping into the room and closing the door behind her. “I think I might have made some headway into getting into the security system at the Gallo compound.”

Crossing the room, she set the laptop on the edge of Matteo’s desk and pressed enter to bring up a single black-and-white image, a shot of the rear gate at Nero’s villa. Instead of studying in the library, Sienna would often sneak through the gate to meet up with friends while her father and uncle did business. It seemed like lifetimes ago now.

“There’s a gap in the systems.”

“A gap?”

Maeve nodded at Matteo. “He uses two of them. One for the external cameras and a second one for the internal cameras and the alarm itself.”

“That doesn’t make sense,” Sienna mumbled.

“I was able to get into the external cameras.” She brought up a series of live feeds showing the stone wall and grounds around her uncle’s villa and the handful of men on patrol.

“I don’t understand how that helps us,” Dom said, bracing his elbows on his knees. “Seems to me it makes it doubly secured.”

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