Page 20 of Mafia Betrayal

He grimaced.

“This can’t be real. It can’t.”

When he didn’t say anything, I stood and shook my head.

Someone from the Capitelli family had ordered a hit on my mother.

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I gazeddown at the phone again and ran a hand through my hair. “Is this all you have?”

“We’re working on it,” he said, taking his phone from me.

My heart tightened. I needed to tell Daddy that there had been a hit on her and that it had come from this family. It wasn’t a neighboring gang or family that didn’t like us or wanted revenge. This had been from someone close to us.

“What about Tommy?”

He shook his head. “Nothing yet.”

I stepped toward him. “Am I paying you 100K for you to sit on your ass?” I looped my finger in his belt loop and pulled him closer, drawing another finger down his gun. “Because sitting on your ass all day is not what I’m interested in. I’m interested in information about my mother’s deathandmy boyfriend.”

“And information is what you’ll get.”

“I’d better.” I trailed my finger down the zipper of his pants, feeling his hardness.

Oh, how fun it was to toy with him. Men thought with the wrong head sometimes—make thatall the time.

“God, I love when you do that.”

I pressed my red-stained lips to his. One lingering kiss. He placed his hands on my hips, drawing me closer, but I pulled away.

“Get me information, and I’ll give you more.”

He shook his head and rocked back on his heels, like the cop I had known for years. I gazed at the small wrinkles by his eyes. If I wasn’tdatingTommy and he wasn’t a police officer, I would truly consider dating William or allow myself to actually feel something for him, but I couldn’t.

He was strictly for my own personal use.

I fixed myself in the mirror and kissed him once more on his lips, making sure he wouldn’t forget what he would get if he got me all the information I needed.

When we walked out of the room, I made sure to keep my distance from him. Alessandro was watching our every move, never moving his hand from his gun. I gave Alessandro my best scowl and walked William and his partner to the door.

“I will be in touch as soon as I can,” he said quietly.

When they left, Alessandro was leaning against the counter with his arms crossed over his bare chest. A large bandage was covering his bullet wound. Ray placed a bottle of painkillers on the counter next to him.

“Thank you, Ray,” I said.

“I do it for the money.” Then, he left too, leaving Alessandro and me.

“Strike a deal with the department?”

I clenched my jaw. “No, and it’s not any of your business what I do with him.”

“Well, as you said before, we are working together now, so if you’re fucking a cop, you’re putting us both in danger.”

I rolled my eyes. Like he actually cared about being in danger. We had almost died because the Sicilian Mafia had put a hit on him. And he was scared about a couple of cops.

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