The Don's Pregnant Wife Ran to His Enemy novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Come and Get Me

Elena's POV

Sandro threw the wire across the study.

The battery cracked against my father's desk and skidded under the chair.

My blouse hung open to the ribs.

I had tape burn on my skin, and I stood very straight, because I had learned in this house never to let him see me bend.

"Who else knows?" he said.

"Everyone you hate."

He hit me.

It was an open hand across the face, hard enough to turn my head, and the room rang.

I tasted blood.

And I laughed.

I could not stop it. It came up out of me, cracked and ugly.

"You said it," I told him. "You said all of it. The Halsted light, the cousin, the docks, the boy at the wedding. It is on a recorder in the street, Sandro. Your own voice."

He stared.

Then he took me by the arm and hauled me across the room toward the door.

"Alessandro!" a man shouted in the hall.

It was one of his soldiers.

Another voice answered, and then a third, and then the sound I had waited all night for, one heavy fist on a door that had not been locked.

The study door burst inward.

Raf came through it with a gun in his right hand and his driver at his shoulder.

He looked at my face first.

Then at my open blouse, and the red mark rising on my cheek.

He raised the gun and held it dead level at Sandro's forehead.

"Let go of her."

"You are armed in my house," Sandro said. "On Pagano ground. The Commission..."

"Let go."

Sandro let go.

I stepped away from him, and Raf's free hand came out and stopped, an inch from my shoulder.

"Elena," he said. "Is this an order?"

"Yes."

"Say it."

"If he touches me again, shoot him."

Raf's eyes did not leave Sandro's face.

"You heard her."

More boots pounded in the hall.

Four of Sandro's soldiers filled the doorway, guns drawn. One of them was the man I had once handed an umbrella on a rainy Sunday.

None of them fired.

They looked at Raf, and the gun on their Don, and the woman with a split lip.

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