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I can’t stand being in this room any longer.Since Gabriele locked me in here again, the only person I’ve seen is Rebecca—once to bring my food, once to pick up the empty tray. I ate every bite. Passing out while trying to escape won’t do me or my baby any favors.My hand instinctively rests over my stomach.Two things are clear:I have to get to Dante and warn him about the danger to his family.To do that, I have to get the hell out of here. Now.Calling from inside the house is too risky. I’d be out in the open too long. No—I need keys. A car. I can call from a gas station or diner on the road.All I need is an exit.People think rich kids are polished little angels in designer shoes, but we’re still teenagers. We still do dumb shit. I went through my rebellious phase like everyone else—especially dating Gabriele in high school. I learned a lot of things my father would’ve disapproved of.One of them was how to pick a lock.It’s a skill I never lost. And looking at the lock on this
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Dante’s POV“What do you mean the Don of the Reina family is your father’s best friend?”You’d think with as much rage as I’m feeling, I’d be screaming. But I’m not.My voice is low. Quiet. Almost… calm.I think I’m in shock.Stefan grips the edge of the marble counter, knuckles white. He looks like a man about to jump off a cliff. Like he knows his next words could start a war.He takes a breath and begins.“My father and Giuseppe Reina served in the Army together. They were just kids—barely out of high school. My dad didn’t come from money. His father was a coal miner in Pennsylvania. His mom worked in a grocery store. If he wanted college, the military was the only ticket.“Giuseppe… you probably know, he was the second son. Much younger than his brother. That brother was groomed to take over the family business. Giuseppe? He was an afterthought. Spoiled, wild. Drugs. Booze. Fights with rival families.“Eventually, his father gave him a choice: clean up in the military or get cut of
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Dante’s POVI’ll say this for my father—when shit hits the fan, he handles it like a fucking pro.He’d been beyond pissed when I told him everything Stefan said. Livid when I got to Pablo. And once I laid out how sure I was that the Reinas were behind it?He was already making calls.Within an hour, he rang me back. “Last place Julian Rothschild was spotted? Plainridge Park Casino. Owner’s some distant cousin of your mother’s side. Guy’s eager to help—already pulled the security footage. Said he’d even bring in the waitress and poker dealer Julian was chatting up. You just have to get there.”Josiah plugs the address into the GPS while Emilio drives. We knew Massachusetts was the farthest lead. Now we have a bullseye.“We’ll be there in two and a half hours,” Josiah says. “You got a spot we can interrogate him?”“I’m texting it to you now. Want me to have the employees meet you there?” my father asks.“Only if it won’t scare the shit out of them. Otherwise, send your contact’s number—I
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Quinn’s POVIt’s been a week. Seven days of hell in a silk cage.Everything feels like some fucked-up version of Groundhog Day. Same four walls. Same creeping dread. Same predator circling closer.An hour after Pablo was killed, they swept his body away like it was a spilled drink. A doctor arrived not long after to check on me. I was badly bruised, but not far enough along for the baby to be harmed.The confirmation of my pregnancy sent Gabriele into a rage. He stormed out, slamming the bedroom door so hard it cracked the frame. The knob hit the wall with enough force to dent it.I was so afraid he’d come back and take that fury out on me—or worse, on the baby—that I dragged a chair under the doorknob and locked myself in the bathroom, pushing a table up against the door.At one point in the night, I heard the knob rattle. The scrape of the chair as pressure pushed it forward. But the barricade held.He could’ve broken in if he’d wanted. He didn’t. Thank God.The next morning, Rebe
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Dante’s POVWe knew it was the Reinas. We knew from interrogating Julian. From the GPS ping in his car, the hotel stays, the wandering path that stretched a hundred miles north into Vermont.We knew Pablo was fucking with our shipments, dirtying up the books.We knew everything—except the one thing that mattered. Where Quinn was.“Get back here to the city,” my father commands over the phone.“No!” I snap. “We’re close, Padre. Too close to walk away now. We’ll track her from Julian’s stops. I can’t just leave her here. God only knows what that psycho Reina will do to her!”I’ve never defied my father. Not when he arranged the marriage. Not when he told me to step into a life I didn’t ask for. But this?This I will fight for.There’s silence on the other end. Then, softly:“I’ve called for a meeting with Giuseppe. He agreed.” A pause. “If you leave now, you’ll make it back in time. He’ll lead us to Gabriele. And then we get Quinn back.”I stare at the floor. My throat tightens.“
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Quinn’s POV I’m woken up by a frantic Gabriele shaking my arm. He must have used a key to get into the room because I definitely locked the door before I went to sleep last night. “Quinn! Wake up! You have to get dressed. Now!” He’s nearly screaming and I can easily see the panic in his eyes. “W-what?” I ask prying my eyes open. “What’s going on?” “They know where we are. We only have a little while before they get here. And we need to be long gone before that,” he says, wrenching the blankets off of me and pulls my arm to get me out of bed. I nearly fall to the floor with the force of his pulling on me and my general lack of coordination since I just woke up. “Gabriele! Calm the fuck down! You’re going to hurt me. Who knows where we are? Who’s coming?” I ask. I try to temper my hope that he’s talking about Dante. It could be tons of different people. I don’t want to get my hopes up only for them to be dashed by
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Dante’s POV The second that Giuseppe Reina told me where to find the spot where he would send Gabriele when his mental illness would overtake him, I started towards the car. I didn’t care about Julian. I didn’t care about the rival don standing next to me and knowing that Quinn is my biggest weakness.I just need to get my wife, my love, my everything back.“Dante! Wait!” the don calls to me.I turn towards him, energy fairly vibrating through my body. “I know that my son has people working for him in my organization. It won’t take long for him to be warned. Take my helicopter. It’ll get you there faster,” Giuseppe tells me.I stare into the older man’s eyes. There, I see two things: sadness and resolve. He knows exactly what’s going to happen to his son. He’s agreed to it. He doesn’t like it, but he agrees that it has to happen. Gabriele has been a problem for the family for years. This time, though, it isn’t something that they can send him to Italy for.I no
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Quinn’s POVThe sound of the gate breaking down and the sight of Dante, Emilio, and Josiah jumping out of the car make my heart soar.That is, until the shock of seeing them wears off, and the pain of being thrown into the car catches up to me. I’d landed flat on the backseat armrest, hitting my stomach hard.I scream, though it’s lost in the chaos of gunfire. The pain isn't just from my rough landing; it's also from the lingering soreness caused by Pablo throwing me against the end table. I curl into myself on the seat, keening in agony.It's when bullets start pinging against the car and one of the windows shatters that I realize I can't just lie here in pain. I need to get somewhere safer.I move to the floor as quickly as I can, though my movements feel cumbersome and slow. When I finally reach the floor, my stomach heaves, nausea overwhelming me from the pain.Gunshots rip through the air and into Gabriele’s body. Some bullets lodge in him, others punch through the door, and a few
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