"You like it, don't you?"
"What?" I managed to breathe.
"The fear, Miss Night," he mused, "you crave it."
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Sabina Night owes Antonio Marafi her life.
But when he asks her to spy on the Russo crime family, Sabin...
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"Say it again."
My voice sounded faraway, even to my own ears. Vaguely I was aware that something had slipped from my fears, but even the glass shattering by my feet couldn't break my stare leveled at Jacob. He winced.
"I said—"
"Where is Gio?" I demanded, stomping over the shattered glass before crossing the bar. My brain had finally caught up with the roaring in my head and the fear pounding in my chest.
Jacob took my interruption in stride, jerking his head toward the door. We rode up in the elevator in silence apart from the panic which settled on my shoulders. I could feel it like a living, breathing thing with claws in my soul.
My sister. The one person in my world who wasn't touched by this dark world I'd grown up in. In the hands of the man who haunted my every day for so many years. Why. Why. Why.
"He'll have a plan," Jacob whispered. "He'll get her back."
Perhaps he said it in response after sensing my growing panic, or perhaps I had whispered my thoughts aloud. Either way, Jacob was staring at me as though he were frightened either by the look on my face or the thought of what Gio would do to him if I acted on my murderous thoughts.
Gio's office door was shut when we approached but I didn't bother knocking as I stormed through it.
"Get the fuck— Sabina," Gio stopped short, seeing me staring wide eyed in his doorway.
Three men I didn't recognize and Cass all turned to stare at the interruption.
"I— I'm sorry. I thought—"
"Everyone out." Gio's voice left no room for argument and not a single one of the men even looked like they were ready to open their mouths. The other three left without hesitation, but Cass lingered by the door near me.
"Find her," I ground out.
Even though they were in a complicated place, there was something about my sister that Cass was immediately attracted to. I knew what it was, had watched people our whole lives be drawn into her orbit by it. Goodness. Light. Life.
For someone like Cass, I imagine that such things were rare. While Gio seemed like he wanted someone who was accustomed to his world, maybe Cass was looking for someone as far away from it as possible. Someone like my sister.
And right now I didn't care what his motivations were as long as they made him want to find her.
Cass simply nodded once, a silent promise that he would look for her. That he would help her. It was the dark look in his eyes that made me believe him.
