Run by Blue Kaye

Author:Blue, Kaye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Ten

Vincent

As we walked away from the bar, I grabbed the cell phone that Gage hadn’t been smart enough to take and made another quick call.

“I need cleanup.”

After I gave the address, we stood and waited, milling at the corner, hoping not to draw too much attention.

Gage’s father had some measure of power in this area, and when he found out his son was dead, there would be questions to answer. I was only mildly worried. The Syndicate’s reach was long enough to smooth over any troubles, but I couldn’t be sure that he wouldn’t strike out immediately. I wouldn’t feel good until I had her safely out of the line of fire.

Of course, that was only a fraction of my worries.

I’d intentionally kept myself from looking at Giovanna too closely, but even a cursory glance showed how her expression had changed. She hadn’t looked at me either, seemed to be going out of her way not to, but I saw the differences nonetheless.

She’d always stood strong and proud, but now her shoulders drooped ever so slightly, and there was a pensiveness around her now, a malaise that didn’t fit her. I knew exactly what it meant.

I’d tried so very hard to keep violence away from her, had always done so, but she wasn’t a fool. She knew what I did, and in times like these, I was reminded of what she thought of it. Even without looking at her, I could see the direction of her thoughts, saw as she considered what I did, found it unacceptable.

In that moment, it was so difficult to believe that all these years had passed because instantly I was taken back. I could remember so many conversations I’d had with her, fights, really, ones where we’d screamed at each other about her desire to leave. But the way she stood now was worse than anything she’d ever said to me.

Because when Gia was like this, it meant she had given up. The last time I’d seen her like this had been three days before she’d left me. Seeing it now made my blood go cold, my soul turn dark with despair as my heart filled with equal measures of hurt and rage.

I latched onto the rage.

This was her fault. If she’d just found somewhere normal, not with people like these. If she’d just stayed put…

But that wasn’t Giovanna. She never did the easy thing, the thoughtful thing, and now she was punishing me for protecting her.

Less than a day and she had already torn my emotions asunder, and as I watched her, thought about all her absence had put me through, thought about the nagging guilt that only came when she was like she was now, I felt that rage intensify.

When the car slowly approached, I looked at it, put myself between Giovanna and the vehicle on instinct, though the anger still roiled. The car came to a stop and I saw the person inside, I felt some semblance of relief.

I hadn’t met him personally, but Sergei had vouched for him.

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