Crooked Heart (A Death So Sweet Book 2) by Candace Wondrak

Crooked Heart (A Death So Sweet Book 2) by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-28T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter Seven – Viper

Mike and I were sent out to look for Tony. We didn’t know the whole story, but if Richard Luciano told you to look for someone, you went out and you looked. You looked as hard as you could, hardly eating or sleeping as the hours ticked on. Those same hours turned into days.

Carl DeLuca was dying. There was no hope left for him, as far as I’d heard. The underbelly of the city was rife with gossip, of who could’ve done this to him. No one knew. No one imagined it was the girl from the club, because he hadn’t taken sick right away.

I didn’t know the whole story, but I knew Lola had met with Carl. I knew Tony had given her something for him, and she poured it in his drink. I knew all that, and yet I didn’t know why. Why Lola would listen to Tony without hesitation, why Tony would dare to upset the balance that has kept this city moving for the last twenty years.

Twenty years. I was ten when things were crazy around here, but I could barely remember those days. The Milanos owed the Lucianos a debt, and it was one my brother and I paid every single day, one we would continue to pay until we died. Blood debts were not something you paid back easily, but I knew they’d helped us, so much more so than the DeLucas ever did.

Neither family was without its dangers, but I would remain on the Lucianos’ side forever, as would my brother.

As we searched the city for Tony, as the hours turned into days and we still had neither hide nor hair of him, I found myself worrying about Lola more and more. It was her fault this was happening, but she didn’t know. She didn’t know the history she was stepping into. She was a girl that acted without thinking, that much we already knew, so something like this shouldn’t come as a shock.

Mike and I were in a bar that was neutral territory. Neither the Lucianos nor the DeLucas owned it or the management. I knew Tony had visited this bar a few times, but I didn’t know whether he’d come here recently. Tony and I, we weren’t exactly buddies. We weren’t close friends. We worked with each other when we had to, we knew of each other, but his disloyalty would not cause me any lost sleep.

Now, Lola, on the other hand? There was no way the DeLucas had turned her, so I didn’t doubt her loyalty to the family that pretty much owned her, body and soul. Still, I worried for her safety. Richard wouldn’t take this lying down, and the last time I’d given Sylvester a call to update him—basically to tell him that we were still empty-handed when it came to Tony—I’d asked about her as nonchalantly as I could.

I’d done my best to take a step back from her, to not let my mind



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