Ruthless Romeo by Emma Vikes & Raven Scott

Author:Emma Vikes & Raven Scott [Vikes, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

16

Romeo

I felt a strange sensation when I stood off to the side and observed Lucia hugging her twin sisters. I didn’t know or really care about Chiara or Alessandra, and yet seeing the relief and joy Lucia expressed at the three of them being reunited made my chest burn. Part of it was jealousy of their closeness with my farfalla. That emotion, I was all too familiar with. But the feelings I experienced outside of that felt foreign and unknowable.

I left without drawing attention to myself.

After that, I made arrangements for the Bonifacio women to share time together more frequently. I’d asked my bride-to-be if she had any requests where our upcoming nuptials were involved, and when she told me her ideas, I promised to honor them as much as I could. I enjoyed seeing her smile at me, and lately, that smile had become not some plastered on caricature of a positive emotion, but the real thing.

I looked in on Giorgio, who was now gradually recovering back in Lucia’s original room. Though I didn’t care much about what happened to him myself, knowing how Lucia would react to seeing him in a less than healthy state spurred me to place myself between her brother and the inflicting of harm. So far, my father had fulfilled his promise, but I knew he would break it if the mood struck, if only to reassert his power.

Right now, though, Angelo’s goal aligned with mine, so I would focus on the task at hand.

Lucia lit up anytime she discussed wedding plans with her sisters, so I arranged for her to meet with the woman my father had hired as a wedding planner. Angelo Cavetti did nothing halfway. He cared about people’s loyalty to him, but he cared almost as much about appearances. My father liked to intimidate in this manner. This was why our family must always have the best and most expensive of everything.

Where I and my brothers chose our nine-millimeter Glocks for their ease of use, my father’s weapon of choice was a Desert Eagle .50 because of its larger-caliber and noise level. The thing had a kickback that could knock down even Vittorio, when he’d still been alive. It was all about show, as were the twenty individual vehicles we owned ranging from a Rolls Royce to a handful of Lamborghinis that were rarely driven.

There were rooms in our mansion that were cleaned and meticulously decorated but never used. All this so we could compete with the other more established crime families. This was a fallacy in my view. I’d begun to see that competition might not be what we should be aiming for. At least not that way.

We’d gained number one title through generations of deceit, through the recent toppling of the Bonifacio empire, and through the taking out the leaders of other rival families. But I doubted that we could ever hold the true allegiance of those we reigned over. That meant when it was my turn as

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