The Mafia's Forbidden Captive novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Key Bridge

"Renata," Luciano said.

His voice was quiet, and it carried to every man on the bridge.

"Let her go and you walk down this road to Silvio's car.

"You'll be tried, and you may live.

"If she's hurt, nobody here will stop what comes next, and I won't try."

"You," Renata said.

The pistol shook against my jaw.

"You stood in my husband's house and looked at me as if I were nothing."

"You are a woman who killed a girl for money," Luciano said.

"I don't look at you as anything else."

I felt her breathing hard against my back.

I felt the cold wet sleeve of her jacket where it crossed my collarbone.

She was strong, and she was terrified, and she was holding a gun on me by the railing of a bridge with sixty men watching.

I thought of the lug wrench in the trunk.

I thought of my sister at a desk with a lamp pulled low.

"Renata," I said.

My voice came out soft.

"You're right that she'd have liked you.

"She wrote that you were a good wife.

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