“You won’t hear me arguing. Maybe it’s time I convince Nico to move upstate and get out of all this noise.”
“So, where is this safehouse?” Serena asks.
“Just around this corner,” I say, pointing to the turn I’m about to make. “It’s a cozy little place we don’t use much, and…”
The thought trails off as I turn the corner. The apartment complex the safehouse is in has no less than four police cars parked out front, and nearly a dozen officers standing outside.
“Luca, what-” Serena starts to say, and without a moment to lose, I try to take a turn down a side-road and slip out of sight before we’re noticed.
But the moment I do, a fifth car pulls up to block my path, coming to a screeching halt while the beat cops start running up to the car, guns coming out.
“What the fuck is this?!” Rafaela hisses.
“No,” I whisper through gritted teeth, and from the fifth car, I watch a tall man with a thin face and short dark hair step out of the car, pulling a shining badge out of his trench coat in one hand while he moves to the car and uses his other hand to pull the door open.
“Luca Lomaglio,” the man says in a tone that tells me exactly what’s coming next. I put my hands up as another cop pulls me out of the car, and Serena and Rafaela are take out from the other side.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I say in a gravelly, warning tone, glaring at the man as he takes out a pair of handcuffs.
“Detective William Price,” he barks, gesturing for me to turn around. “You’re under arrest for racketeering, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of unlicensed firearms…” His voice trails off to me as my ears start ringing, and I feel another cop pulling my hands down and trying to shove me against the front of my car.
“Serena!” I shout, watching the girls getting pulled away by the cops. Her terrified face looks to me desperately.
“Luca! Luca, what-”
“Stay calm!” I shout as I try to pull away from the officers to stay in sight of her. Immediately, I feel two officers wrestling me back, shoving me into the back of a police car, “I love you, baby!”
“I love you, Luca!” she calls, tears streaking down her face.
And that’s the last sight I see before the police car door slams shut.
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Luca was never mine.
For five years, I struggled to purge him from my heart. To move on.
He disappeared when I needed him most. I told myself I hated him, but he still had my heart.
When he crashes back into my life, I can’t fight my desires.
I thought I knew the whole story, but I’ve been so naive.
I’m in danger, and every life he takes is to keep me safe.
I have to trust the man who once broke my heart.
We thought our love would protect us from the mafia.
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No future. No hope. The mafia stole it all from me.
We were struggling against a tide of blood, just two people against an army.
And now we’re supposed to be three. A happy little family.
But he sacrificed himself. For me. For us. For our unborn child.
We were given a second chance at love, just to have it all ripped away.
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About the Author
Alexis Abbott is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author who writes about bad boys protecting their girls! Pick up her books today if you can’t resist a bad boy who is a good man, and find yourself transported with super steamy sex, gritty suspense, and lots of romance.
She lives in beautiful St. John's, NL, Canada with her amazing husband.
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