CHAPTER 101

VALENTINO

Love made people weak. Weakness was for those who loved. It was a good thing that I would never be someone like the soldier I shot. I would never sell out my business for a woman. Love was blocked from the stone that formed around my heart all those years ago. The only love I had was for my guns which aided me in the deaths of those who betrayed me.

My mind kept replaying the gunshots that pierced through one of Dimitri’s soldiers. I never expected to obtain the expensive information that he shared with almost no problem. All I had to do was bring up the woman he loved, and he was ready to tell me everything, including something I never knew…Dimitri had a daughter. I smiled genuinely for the first time in years as I pulled back the trigger and took his life. Dimitri had a daughter. For once, I had the power to make Dimitri feel what I felt all those years ago.

“Valentino!” Alex boomed out angrily as he stormed into my office. “What the hell are you planning?”

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