Ruthless Sinner: A Dark Mafia Enemies To Lovers Romance (The Terlizzis Book 1) by Cora Kent

Author:Cora Kent [Kent, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cora Kent
Published: 2024-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

Dante

The grounds are supposed to be impenetrable, but everyone has a price. It doesn’t matter how much you pay for loyalty; there will always be someone else waiting in the wings with a higher bid. If only the fucker in the wings wasn’t using my money to turn my men against me.

The buttons of my pants hang undone as I exit Adalina’s room. With a sense of urgency, I make my way down the hall to my room, where a locked safe in the back of my closet holds a secret stash of guns.

The sound of heavy boots echoes through the first floor, their destructive steps causing the newly restored hardwood to splinter and crack. They knock paintings off the walls, laughing with one another when priceless art shatters into fragments on the ground. Suddenly, another gunshot rings out, followed by a pained gasp. I hope the person who got shot was the man that sold me out.

The sound of footsteps thundering up the stairs sends a jolt of adrenaline through my body. I force myself into the closet, feeling around in the dark for what I’m looking for. There’s no time to think, no time to ponder who might have broken in, but I know deep down that this is Tommaso Martinelli’s revenge for not adhering to his sunset deadline.

With a loud bang, the door to my closet blasts open, startling me as I wrap my hand around the cold, hard metal of a gun.

“Stop right there.” A low, velvety baritone voice resonates through the air, unfamiliar yet commanding. “Dante Terlizzi?”

My heart drops as I glance back and see a grotesque mask obscuring the face of the man pointing a gun at me. “Who’s asking?”

He slowly raises the gun to point it at my face, his finger hovering over the trigger. A tense silence fills the small room as he takes aim. “Tommaso Martinelli sends his regards.”

The loud explosion of the gun fills my ears as I instinctively fling myself to the ground. The bullet whizzes past my head, barely missing its intended target but instead striking the side of the gun safe with a loud clang. In a fit of rage and desperation, the masked stranger curses loudly and fumbles for the closet light switch, hoping to catch me off guard. But I am already prepared.

In a split second, I pounce on the intruder. We tumble to the ground, limbs flailing and grunting in struggle. I manage to grab hold of his arm, but he retaliates with a swift punch to my gut. As we roll around, I catch a glimpse of the gun’s cold metal barrel pointed at my stomach. Adrenaline courses through me, fueling my desperate attempts to break free. Just as his finger tightens on the trigger, I twist and wrench the gun out of his grip, sending it clattering across the floor.

We fight in quasi-darkness, with only the light from the closet as our guide. The stranger’s body is a blur of movement as he lunges towards me, but I manage to land a solid punch to his jaw.

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