She was the queen of my heart. The asshole knew what he was doing to me.
“It’s fine. Play the game of silence, you fucktard. We’ll resume this but rest assured, I haven’t even begun yet to show you the extent of how truly evil I can be. Those shocks were nothing. That was just to try and crack the surface, but you refuse to cooperate. It’s all good.Ace.” He slapped my cheek and backed away.
He’d taken to calling me Ace earlier; assuming this was the same day.
“When you see me again, it’ll be death and I’ll take pleasure in killing your ass, but I’ll make you suffer first. Maybe I’ll cut your dick off for screwing around with my little girl, and I’ll make you watch me kick it around in the dirt.” He laughed then backed right out of my view.
Footsteps sounded then faded into nothingness. I couldn’t hear anymore. I hung my head down and stared at the queen of hearts.
The image blurred into the ground and my mind drifted again. I drifted into the nothingness for what was likely hours. I didn’t know.
It was more footsteps that woke me up. I blinked and geared myself up to see Giovanni again. He said he’d kill me. I didn’t need any more pain. Maybe I would will myself to die somehow. Maybe I could just try to force my body to give up so it wouldn’t have to go through any more.
The face that stood before me was not, however, Giovanni’s.
It was Frankie.
Frankie, one of the knights. The only guy I could really say I got on with here. What would he do?
Had Giovanni sent him to kill me, knowing we’d been close to being called friends?
Was that what this was?
“Kid, boy I wished you’d listened to me. They messed you up bad,” he remarked. Despair clouded his russet eyes as his gaze assessed me.
My lips parted but I couldn’t talk. My throat was so dry and my body weak.
But…not too weak to take note of what he did next. He pulled out a key and moved to undo the cuff on my right hand.
“Get this side Vin,” he instructed, glancing over his shoulder.
Surprise took me when Vinny stepped forward and took hold of my right side, holding me up so I wouldn’t drop to the ground.
In the meantime Frankie unlocked the cuff on my left hand and took hold of my left side. Both of them supported me. I looked from one to the other, not quite sure what they were doing yet. These two guys after all, were Giovanni’s most trusted people. His capos.
“What … what are you doing?” I asked weakly.
“What the fuck does it look like we’re doing, prick?” Vinny threw back.
“Just don’t talk.” Frankie told me. “Here to rescue you from shit.Capisce?”
I couldn’t believe it.Jesus.
“Capisce,” I answered.
