Undressed By The Mafia God novel Chapter 35

Chapter 35: I’m Going To Kill Him

"No." Cassidy stepped closer, hands cupping her face. His lips crashed into hers in a bruising kiss, clumsy and desperate and far too full of everything he hadn’t said soon enough.

She let herself feel it.

Then the world detonated.

Luca saw red instantly.

One second he was sitting in the car, jaw tight, watching the scene unfold with a predator’s stillness. The next, he was out, door slamming, shoes hitting pavement with lethal intent.

"You really are looking to get yourself killed, aren’t you?" Luca was suddenly there.

Cassidy turned, placing himself instinctively between Luca and Vee. "For her? Yes!" he shot back. "And then she’d finally be free of you."

Vee surged forward immediately, panic flaring in her chest. She shoved herself between them, hands out, heart hammering. "Please. Please, Luca," she begged. "Its nothing."

"I’m going to kill him!" Luca snapped, eyes never leaving Cassidy’s face.

"You do that!" Cassidy barked. "At least then the police would know who to come for. You’re a slippery one, Luciano Genovese. Not anymore."

Luca smiled.

It was slow. Wicked.

"Better men have tried, fool," he said softly. "Better men than you have fucking tried." He leaned in just enough to make the threat intimate. "I own the fucking NYPD."

"Please, Luca," Vee said again. "Let’s just go. Please."

"Vee..." Cassidy said quietly, turning to her, ignoring the threat looming inches away. "Please. I’m not going to give up on you."

Her heart shattered.

She looked at him fully then, really looked. The bruised eye. The stubborn tilt of his chin. The love written all over his face.

"You have to," she whispered. "Cas, please."

"For what?" he asked. "For him?"

"For me," she said, tears spilling freely now. "For Valentina. She’s just a child."

Cassidy’s shoulders sagged, the fight draining out of him as reality finally punched through adrenaline. He looked past her, at Luca, and then back at Vee, eyes glassy.

"I have to save you," he said hoarsely.

"I know," she whispered. "To do that, you have to walk away."

Luca watched, jaw tight, fury coiled beneath his skin.

"Vee." Cas sighed. "I... I love you."

Vee turned instinctively toward Luca first.

Then she turned back to Cas.

Tears blurred her vision. She didn’t know why she said it. Maybe it was the intensity of the moment. Maybe it was stubbornness. Maybe it was the desperate need to know that somewhere inside all this chaos, something was still hers. "I love you too."

Cas smiled, and it broke her.

It was soft and fractured.

"Let me go," she whispered.

Cas nodded. "Okay," he said quietly. "For now."

She stepped away from him slowly, every step toward the car feeling heavier than the last. Behind her, Luca stood motionless, imagining all the ways he could and would dismantle Cassidy piece by piece.

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