“You heard me, Prez. The Russians are in town. It could be the Romanovs themselves, looking for
their girl again.”
“Or whoever the fuck wants her dead.”
“You think it’s an inside job?”
“It’s the fucking Mob. It’s always an inside job.” I rand both hands through my hair, swearing.
“And now that they have the fucking car, it’s only a matter of time before they know she’s alive.”
“And tie her back to us,” Cottonmouth said. “There was nothing open in range last night but the
Wicked Ass, and we’re the only known bounty hunters in Newport. They’ll know for sure we have
her.”
“Do they have the guts to come and take her?” Viper asked.
“Let them fucking try!” I snapped. “But I won’t wait to find out. Gear up, brothers. We’re going on
a road trip to Chicago.”
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I protested. How was going back home the solution to our predicament? I set one foot in the city, and the word would spread like fire. Besides, Leo could be there, too.
“You’ll be safe with me. I won’t let anything hurt you.” Jesse—he’d told me his cute real name,
and I loved it—kissed me, squeezing my hand and pulling me into his embrace.
I didn’t know how, but every time our lips met, it was like he cast a spell on me, stopping my brain
from working, compelling me to agree with everything he wanted me to do.
But as I packed, and my brain started to function again, I realized if I stayed here, it was only a
matter of time before I was eithertakento Chicago, with the possibility of Jesse getting hurt if he refused to give me away—and he would—or got myself killed.
The way I saw it we had two options. We went to Chicago voluntarily to get to the bottom of it
with the help of his friends in the Chicago chapter and maybe Tino Bellomo’s. After all his men were
the ones who saved me the night I was shot.
Even though he didn’t mind Leo helping me escape, Tino Bellomo didn’t like the fact that we were
in love because of the Mafia princess Leo was supposed to marry. He was smart, though, not fighting
it. He knew his son better than anyone, and when I thought about it now, I bet he always knew my
story with Leo would end up in blood. That was why he always kept an eye on us when Leo wouldn’t
even have a bodyguard.
Bellomo’s men found me and took me to one of their clinics that didn’t ask questions, where they
