Hated Vows: A fake marriage, enemies to lovers, mafia romance (Il Consiglio Scalera - A Mafia Dynasty Book 1) by Sophia Karlson

Author:Sophia Karlson [Karlson, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

35

MATTEO

“Where is she?” I ask the mole as I turn to him. He’s already muttering something on a walkie talkie. Old school, but I’m not on home ground. I don’t have my phone and feel like I’ve lost a limb.

We have minutes. As soon as the guards realize Randazzo is dead, the guns are going to come out blazing. Some men will do so out of loyalty, others out of fear. And then there are those who will make the most of the shift in the hierarchy.

“Follow me.” The mole nods and we rush along the side of the house. The hurricane shutters are closed over every window, in lockdown.

It’s only when we reach the end of the house that one shutter is halfway open, blocked by a piece of metal. From inside, men are calling. The guards have realized something’s up. I become aware of the incessant beep of an alarm that indicates something’s been breached.

They’re already hunting us.

“Once inside, you have three minutes before I open the shutters,” the mole says. “The cache with the bulletproof vests is in this room’s closet. Your wife is next door on your right.”

I nod. The whole business is risky. We could be stepping into a trap.

“Thank you,” the mole says, and I notice the sheen of sweat gathering by his temples. This guy is risking everything too, but he has achieved his own goal today and has avenged his sister. Randazzo died in front of his own eyes, and I bet if I’d handed him a knife, he would happily have butchered along.

I’ve trusted him this far. “See you on the other side.”

Burley is already clambering through the open window, his bulk hardly fitting through the small space. I follow suit, the only weapon on me the knife the mole handed me. Where there were voices before, everything has now gone eerily quiet. Burley opens the closet and quietly searches in the little light through blankets and old clothes. He tosses me a bulletproof vest. I signal to him that there should be more than one. I hope for three. Tasha will need one too.

Crashing sounds come from the other side of the house. Something had lured the guards in the opposite direction.

“There’re only two,” Burley mutters. He strips his jacket and pulls on a vest. “It’s too fucking small.”

“Better than nothing.” For a moment we just stare at each other in the ill-lit room. Tasha wasn’t supposed to be here. He wasn’t supposed to be here. I had some other bodyguard assigned for today. But this is it. The moment where I make the choice between my bodyguard and friend of over ten years and the woman I’ve kidnapped.

“She’ll have it,” Burley says and he doesn’t fasten the vest. “You look after Rosalia.”

“It might not come to that.”

“We walked in here knowing it was going to come to that.”

True. I take the automatic gun he holds out to me, hefting it for weight and comfort. Then he hands me a revolver.

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