Total pages in book: 119
Estimated words: 113056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 565(@200wpm)___ 452(@250wpm)___ 377(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 565(@200wpm)___ 452(@250wpm)___ 377(@300wpm)
“Untie him, Neen, bend the fucker over that table,” Tommy said.
I buried my face in Will’s shoulder so I wouldn’t have to look.
Oh God.
I sobbed.
“Athena!” Tommy called. I looked over my shoulder at him and saw as he was untying Leo.
“You can step outside the door for this. Tessa? Your choice.”
“I’ll stay,” Tess said.
Will helped me out and sat with me in the hall, our backs against the wall.
I heard voices. I heard my husband’s in an angry, accusing tone, but I didn’t know what he was saying. I heard Leo grunting out in pain behind the mouth tape. I heard Tess shout, “fucking animal” and then Nino, “How do you like that you little motherfucker?”
I pulled my knees up and buried my face in them, forgetting that I was in a little black dress.
The little fucking goof needed to hit the button for the third explosion, but my guys had nabbed him first. We’d gotten his chauffeur and bodyguards immobilized and then we’d driven him here where he’d been interrogated by his uncle’s right-hand man. That guy had also beat the shit out of Leo Denarda, but all I gave a shit about was the fact that the fucker was conscious when I got to him so that he’d feel my wrath.
Carve my sister’s arm with your initials? I carved her initials on his arm and then a giant F on his torso for Ferrano. And then Nino, who loved Tess like she was his sister, particularly because of Tess’s relationship with his wife Bianca, drove a rust-coated metal pipe up Denarda’s ass.
My sister stood there, cool as a cucumber, throughout the entire event. I’d watched Tessa her whole life and even though she’d say that I kept my distance, I knew her. I knew that despite her stone-cold face, she was wrecked on the inside.
I’d given her an out. She could spit in his face and walk away. She could carve her initials herself. She could simply leave the little fuck in my hands and know that he would pay for what he’d done to her. She wanted him to hurt. She wanted him dead. She told me herself that she wanted him raped up the ass dry and that she wanted to watch. And then she wanted the fucker to lose his dick and die.
I was more than happy to take the order from her.
She stood there while he got ass raped and after the fucker’s asshole was bleeding, she calmly kissed me on the cheek and then went out to join Will and Tia in the hallway. Nino used the blood and shit-coated pipe to beat that little shit between his legs until there probably wasn’t much left but a mangled mess of what used to be his dick and balls between his legs. I moved in and said a couple things into his ear, then moved to look right into his eyes while I slowly slid that boxcutter blade across his fucking throat.
I didn’t have to call JC, my usual clean-up guy, who did have help here in Vegas. Denarda’s uncle’s crew was happy to stay on hand and clean up the mess.
Tess had come into the hall and sat beside me. I lifted my head out of my knees and looked at her and she started to quietly cry. I hugged her and she clung to me until Nino and Tommy emerged from the room. Tommy’s face was bleeding. And there was blood on his tuxedo shirt. He held his hand out. I took it, got to my feet, and held it as we all walked out of there.
Things were eerily quiet on the limo ride back to the hotel. He and Nino sat there with a tub of baby wipes and wiped blood off calmly, as if they’d done this a hundred times.
We didn’t touch; he didn’t look at me. He stared out the window, his chin resting on his palm, elbow propped up on an armrest built into the door. I sat, my hands in my lap, the rest of me numb.
In addition to sore ribs, I was vaguely aware of soreness on my lips, likely from where that guy had smacked me in the mouth.
Nino and Will got out of the limo first, Nino taking a grocery bag filled with the used wipes with him.
“What’s going on?” Tess asked.
“Nino’s making sure we’re safe to go up.”
Nino was back a few minutes later, leading us inside.
Back inside the suite, Tommy said, “Get to sleep, if you can, girls.”
He kissed my mouth and then put his lips to my forehead and held me there for a second. He let go and tucked my hair behind my ear.
“I’m gonna check on Dex, Johnny, find out about everything. Go to bed. We’ll probably head home a few hours after we wake up.”