Mad Max - Sapphire Knight Page 0,57

you.”

She cackles, the sound a bit deranged coming from her. “So I am…” she announces and stands, pulling a gun from behind her to point at me.

“What’s the meaning of this? You’re brave to point that in my direction when you know I can still kill you without much fuss if I should desire. Think rationally and let’s have a chat about this. I’m sure whatever’s bothering you we can figure it out.”

“Oh, kill me…like you easily killed my parents? My nonna? You really are a sociopathic bastard, aren’t you? My fucking nonna?” she ends shrilly.

“Me?”

“Don’t lie!” she screams suddenly, causing me to jerk with the noise and emotion. “I know it was you. I know everything, you piece of shit!”

Fine, if this is the route we’re taking, so be it. I was really looking forward to not having to kill her. I had plans for us, for our future together. “I had to make some agreements. It was necessary.”

“Necessary?” she gasps in outrage. “You agreed to my parents dying! To my entire line being eradicated! Tell me how that’s acceptable in any way?”

“I won’t discuss business with you. Mafia wives should know when to keep their noses out of things.”

“Fine.” she cocks the gun. “Then I’ll start shooting you. Remember how good of a shot I am? I can unload this clip without killing you. You’ll tell me eventually. My father didn’t raise a fool. I’m a woman. I’m not weak. I thought you understood as much about me, but it looks like I’ve been wrong about you all along.”

“I don’t believe you’re weak. Look at how brilliant you are in this very moment.”

“Don’t change the subject!” she shouts, livid. A shot rings out and debris from the ceiling peppers all over the place.

“Fuck, ease up on the flat, yeah?” It’s the wrong thing to say I reckon, as her face further reddens and she lets out this girly squeal sort of noise. That temper of hers is hot tonight, and I’m not thrilled to be on the opposite end of the gun she wields. “Where did you get the weapon? Were you in my safe?”

“Ease up? You’re unbelievable.”

“You keep repeating me,” I comment, and a shot comes far too close to hitting me. She missed me on purpose, I’m not stupid enough to believe otherwise.

“What made you think I’d ever be okay with you giving the approval to take out my famiglia? Marrying you was supposed to help them. I did it to protect them all, or else I never would’ve walked down that aisle. I never would’ve spent my wedding day waiting on you to handle business to save them.”

“That so, darling? You’re going to play it like this, not admit to the feelings you were getting up to with me? You seem to rather enjoy pulling the oblivious card whenever it comes to us and suits your needs.”

“Fuck you. Sexual attraction doesn’t mean anything. You of all people should know that. I may’ve wanted to fuck you, but it ended there. I married you because of false promises it’d keep my mother and father protected…They’re dead, Max. Dead. You may not have feelings, but I do. I loved them, so much, and you let them die without another thought.”

“How do you know it was me behind any such orders?”

“Don’t fucking lie to me! This whole situation was you and the mob. I know it was you. You lied to my father and ultimately to me. I guess I should’ve expected nothing else, huh?”

Her words spur me forward. Gun forgotten, I crowd her space. Leaning in until my nose presses to hers, I growl, “Careful now, love. I don’t tolerate this behavior from just anyone. I’ve killed men for speaking to me with such disrespect.”

“The truth too much for you to handle, Maximillian? You ready to murder me next?”

I growl in response, shoving my nose into hers hard enough that tears fill her angry eyes once more. She’s fucking looney if she believes I’ll sit back and take this scolding like a kicked dog.

Yes, I gave the bloody fucking agreement to her family dying. The bottom line was I only cared she lived, not any of those other pricks from the Five Families. Her and Joker…everybody else can rot in the cold, hard ground. Hell, I’ll put the tossers under if necessary, but her and T will keep on breathing as long as I walk this godforsaken earth. I’ll make it happen.

Without overthinking my actions, I reach