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Chapter 24
Giovanni
Sleep was a ghost to me that night. Haunting me just like Emiliana’s expression did.
I couldn’t wipe the look of fear on her face from my mind. While Emiliana lay still, resting her head on me with her long brown waves draped across her face, I focused on Mateo. More importantly, how I was going to deal with him.
Mateo was once one of my most trusted men. Yeah, he could be a dipshit sometimes, but I didn’t think he would go crawling to help Vittoria. Something didn’t feel right, but after a week of torture, Mateo was still holding strong. I had no information, no clues and I could tell that Louis was breaking. Having him beat the living shit out of his younger brother couldn’t have been easy, but he was just as furious as I was. I sensed that a minor part of his sadistic mind enjoyed inflicting pain on him for his brother’s betrayal.
Vinnie had argued with me for the better part of that morning unti
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