Shattered Glass: The Starling (This Thing of Ours Book 1) by Noëlle Alexandria & Lisa Walls

Author:Noëlle Alexandria & Lisa Walls [Alexandria, Noëlle & Walls, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vancouver Independent Publishing
Published: 2023-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

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“How much worse do you want this to get?” Enzo growled.

Rossetti stayed silent. Enzo handed a hammer over to Gino who took a long drag of his cigarette before twisting Rossetti’s hand and slamming the tool down onto it. Despite the crunching sound of shattering bones, Rossetti didn’t scream. The bastard’s resolve was admirable, but Enzo had no more patience for the interrogation that seemed to drag on. He was stressed enough knowing Miss Colby was spending her first night in a new place, likely scared out of her precious mind.

Rossetti grunted and spat as he pulled against the restraints that kept his wrists and ankles firmly attached to a large wooden chopping block in the back of the old butcher shop.

“Non los so—”

“Don’t make me warn you again. English, so my Jewish friend here knows what you say.” Enzo gestured toward one of the men behind him.

“I said I don’t know that little bitch!”

This time Gino didn’t bother to wait. He casually smashed the hammer three more times against Rossetti’s knuckles turning the already broken bones to dust. Just then through gritted teeth, a high-pitched cry finally escaped him.

Enzo raised an eyebrow. “Will you stake your life on that lie? Are you going to keep lying to my man Rizzio’s face? That’s awfully bold of you considering you conducted business with him that night. Are you going to keep insisting that you don’t recall the woman you threatened to finish off?” He showed Rossetti a photograph of Miss Colby once more.

Rossetti spat at it.

Enzo’s nostrils flared at the desecration of Miss Colby’s picture. Without hesitation, he snatched up a large knife and drove it through the man’s hand into the carving block beneath.

“Rest assured, Rossetti, you will not live to see another day, but we can make it quick, or we can play all night. The choice is yours.”

Rossetti instinctively tried to pull his hand away and screamed against the blade slicing deeper into his flesh.

Enzo shrugged. “All right, then. Piece by piece. Hiram, what do you think?”

When Hiram swung up his meat cleaver, Rossetti squealed.

“All right! All right! Yes, I fucking know her!”

In a fleeting moment of mercy, Enzo yanked the blade out of his hand. “Why did you let her go? What was your plan?”

“It was a mistake. I should have killed your little bitch when she was in heat.”

Hiram swung the cleaver down, severing Rossetti’s hand above the wrist. Rossetti let out a blood-curdling shriek. With his arm no longer shackled down by the amputated hand, he pulled his forearm to his chest, letting warm blood pool onto his white dress shirt.

“Don’t call her that again.” Enzo aimed the blood-soaked knife at Rossetti’s eye. The slightest move and Enzo would have him blind. His disgust for the man grew by the minute.

“You see, Rossetti, I don’t find pleasure in torture, but I will see to it that Miss Colby is safe by any means necessary. So, tell me what I need to know. Why did you let her go?”

Rossetti spat in his face.

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