Chapter 34

Chiara

For the first time in what seemed like a month, I was finally having great sleep. Fia’s old lumpy bed is a far cry from the dirty floors of that warehouse and the flea-infested couch in the cabin in the woods, and my comfort was enough to make me forget about the awkward kiss.

Or maybe I’m just going crazy.

Either way, I should have known that the bliss was too good to be true.

Because a couple of hours into sleeping, I find myself shaken awake.

“No,” I groan before I can even open my eyes, thinking that my disruptor is Fia. “Please, let me--”

“Chiara,” a man’s voice says. “Please wake up.”

I finally pry my eyes open, still sticky with sleep. In the dim light, I see two faces looming over mine. Gio and Alessio, with Alessio kneeling beside my bed.

“What?” I ask in a daze. “What’s happening?”

“No time for questions,” he says urgently. “You need to get up and come with Gio, okay?”

That statement is enough to shock me awake. “What do you mean to come with Gio? Where?”

“The mob is