Chapter 27

Alessio

“If you get me lost, I swear to all the deities,” I warn Benedetti sternly as I watch him point my driver to another corner that seems to lead to nowhere. “I will chop you up so finely your family will have nothing to bury.”

He only laughs in the backseat. “Relax, Alessio. We are heading to Arachne.”

I arch an eyebrow. “And that’s supposed to be in the bumfuck nowhere?”

“Well, kind of, yes.” Benedetti adjusts the collar of his shirt, getting nervous as our eyes meet through the rearview mirror. “I know this doesn’t feel correct, but trust me. I’ve been in this place and I’m pretty confident your girl could be here.”

‘Your girl’. For some reason, those words make my heart constrict, but I don’t say anything as the car drives at a faster speed.

Now we’re in a field of some sort with dirt roads and trees reaching into the darkening sky. On and on the dirt road stretched before us, seemingly with no promise of an end and a certain destination. My anger is slowly simmering, my hand