CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
RAINA
One angry Bonetti coming at you is enough, but six is fucking terrifying. Bones stares at me with an angry expression, as he rubs his thumb over his jaw.
“Well, well, well, here we are again.”
Bones and Psycho look angry. The women look like they pity me, as if they know how unpleasant my death will be, but the worst is Lorenzo. He stares at me like he can barely stomach looking at me. I miss the way he looked at me before. Like he needed me, but now I think what he said he felt for me has evaporated.
“Lorenzo, I’m sorry.”
“It’s Kage,” he bites.
“We need to know exactly what was said in that hospital room. Leave nothing out,” Bones says, with his wife behind him.
“Not much. She asked about your business. I said drugs and trafficking. She asked if I meant human trafficking, and I clarified that it was weapons, and to my knowledge, you didn’t traffic humans, or deal in prostitution.”
He stares at me, with eyes as black as coal. Well, really they all do, but my attention is on Bones.
“You don’t know anything about my family. Why you?”
I shrug my shoulders, because I don’t have much of an answer to that.
“She wanted me to try to overhear his conversations. I don’t think she thought I had much, but that I could get what she wanted. I sent her a text telling her I wouldn’t help.”
Bones nods.
“Yeah, that you loved my brother, and would not help put him in prison. After you already spoke to her.”
Kage makes a sound I’ve never heard from him, as he rubs his chest. I know that me saying I love him now means nothing. It’s all too little too late.
“Why did you do this?” Bella asks.
“He killed my best friend, and my mother. I was angry. And given this opportunity. I didn’t reach out to her, she simply showed up, and I made a mistake. The second I realized what I had done, I tried to undo it.”
Kage shakes his head in disgust.
“This cannot be undone. This is something your father would’ve done. Once an Abruzzo, always an Abruzzo.”
“We’re done here. Kage, a word.”
They walk to the exit, but I can just barely hear them speaking.
“I’m going to honor my wife’s wishes. If you want her dead, I accept that, but you’re going to need to do it. I don’t think she did any real damage. However, you need to make sure she doesn’t have information in the future that could be used against us.”
Kage hangs his head down.
“She’s a traitor.”
Athena says, “Is she really, though? She was your captive.”
Kage comes over to me as they all leave, and opens the door.
“Get out.”
“Are you letting me go?” I gasp.
He chuckles, but there’s no humor behind it.
“Well, that’s what you want, right? That’s what you always wanted?”
I burst into tears all over again as I step out of the cage.
“No, I don’t want to go, Lorenzo. I want to be with you.”
Stroking his fingers down my face, his voice comes out low, deep, and filled with pain.
“That’s what I wanted too, Firecracker. Fuck, I wanted it so bad, I imagined you. I let myself believe the fantasy I concocted was real. Tell me, Raina. Do you want to live?”
“I know you think you hate me, but if you kill me, you’ll never forgive yourself.”
He places his hand around my throat, and shoves me against the wall, causing me to whimper when I hit my head against the concrete.
“You have one use to me now. What we had we will never have again, because I’ll never fucking trust you. Take the bathrobe off.”
I undo the ties on the robe and drop it to the floor.
“Turn around.”
While I don’t have a clue what he’s doing, I do as I’m told. If I want any chance with Lorenzo, I know better than to defy him right now. There’s a time to be a brat, and this is not it. Turning around, I face the wall, and he lifts my wrist, chaining me to the wall. I tilt my head back and look up because I hadn’t noticed they were there. He puts my other one in the matching metal restraint, and I cry, because that’s all I can do right now.
“You’re my whore now, Raina. I’ll fuck you whenever I want, and then leave you like this, with my cum dripping down your thighs.”
He unzips his pants and I cringe. Of course I want him, but not like this.
“Lorenzo, please, I’ll give you what you want, but not this way.”
Grabbing my hips, he pulls my ass back and rubs his cock between my cheeks.
“These are the rules, Abruzzo. You don’t talk to me. Unless you’re given permission, you will not look at me. I’ll take your cunt when I want it, but you have nothing to offer me. The girl I thought I loved is dead.”
My heart shatters into a million pieces as he pushes inside me, and I feel like that little girl all over again. The one that learned her only worth was between her legs. He finishes inside me with a grunt and then he’s gone, like he said he would be.
I rush over to the toilet, that I barely make it to with these chains, and expel everything in my stomach. After I get up, I spot Kage, watching me from the doorway. Our eyes meet, and he shakes his head and walks away.