than being Antonio’s right-hand man. Vincenzo had the stomach to get the job done. He—”
“What the fuck did you just say?” The blood had completely drained from Enzo’s face.
“You heard me, Lorenzo. Guess you weren’t the apple of your father’s eye, after all.”
Oh God.
Realization flickered across Enzo’s face.
A brother.
He had a brother.
A brother Vincenzo had kept from him, kept from everyone if this family reunion was anything to go by.
Oh, Enzo.
“You’re lying”. Enzo’s voice shook with anger.
“Am I? Our father told me all about you, brother. All that rage inside you, the blood thirst, the desire to drown in darkness. He had high, high hopes for you… but like always, you were a bitter disappointment.” The temperature cooled in the room as the two brothers faced off against each other.
“And then, you killed him. You chose Antonio, the Family, over your own flesh and blood, you fucking piece of shit.”
“What do you want, Vinnie? You want vengeance, is that it? You want your pound of flesh? Then come and get it. I’m right here.” Enzo opened his arms to the side, goading my captor.
“You think I want to kill you?” His dark laughter snaked through me, coiled around my heart like barbed wire. “I don’t want to kill you… yet. First, I want you to watch as I destroy the thing you love most in the world.”
My blood turned to ice at his words, but I couldn’t move, I couldn’t do anything.
“I’m going to ruin her and you’re going to stand here and watch.”
“Touch her and I’ll—”
“You’ll what? Kill me. I’d like to see you try while I have a knife pressed to your girlfriend’s throat.”
Tears streamed down my face. I wanted to be strong. I wanted to be the kind of woman who laughed in the face of danger. But the reality was, my world was splintering apart right in front of me.
I wanted to live. I wanted to graduate college and decide what to do with my life, maybe travel before settling down. I wanted to get married, a big over the top wedding with all my friends and family, and then I wanted a life with the guy I loved more than anything.
I wanted that… I wanted it so much.
But Vinnie had taken that from me. The second he’d made Luca kidnap me, he’d ruined my future. Because I knew Enzo, and I knew he wouldn’t ever forgive himself for this.
My eyes settled on his rugged face. He couldn’t even meet my eyes, focused solely on his psychopathic brother.
“This is between me and you, just let her go.”
“And give up the opportunity to destroy your world the way you destroyed mine? Our father was everything to me… everything and you took him from me.”
“She isn’t anyone to me,” Enzo said with so much sincerity my heart cracked wide open. “She’s just good pussy, that’s all.”
“Ohhh, hear that, baby.” Vinnie pressed his mouth to my ear. “He’s good. So good I almost believed him.”
“It’s the truth. If our father taught me anything, it was to never let a woman into my life. Nora isn’t my woman, Vinnie, she’s just a piece of ass I like to lose myself in occasionally.”
His words cut like tiny blades across my heart, ripping open old scars and forming new ones.
“Liar. She’s yours… whether you’re man enough to admit it or not. She’s yours and I’m going to fucking destroy her.”
Enzo finally gave me his eyes and what I saw there gutted me. He didn’t know how to end this. Not with us both walking away alive.
I screwed my eyes shut, trying to push down the tidal wave of emotion battering my insides.
“Time’s up, brother,” he sneered. “Say goodbye to your heart.”
Chapter 29
Enzo
He was going to kill her.
This motherfucker was going to kill the only girl I’d ever loved.
And I did.
I loved Nora.
Maybe not in a conventional way, but she owned my heart… and I think deep down she’d taken mine the first time I’d ever laid eyes on her.
Nora wasn’t like most girls. She was strong and selfless and sassy, unapologetic and feisty. She went after what she wanted with zero fucks given.
And she’d wanted me.
Nora Abato had seen past all my darkness and found the sliver of light buried deep inside my soul.
A mistake she was going to die for.
Fuck.
Vinnie yanked her over to a table and folded her over it, dropping his free hand to his belt buckle. My blood turned to molten lava as I watched him claw at