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There’s hope.

I can figure something out as long as nobody cracks my head against a wall again. I don’t know how many more whacks I can take before my mind permanently checks out. I let out a shuddering breath.

It’s time to focus…time to figure out how the hell I can stop what is clearly already in motion.

Messina walks over to me, pressing his gun to my temple, leaning close to my ear. “Soon, your families are going to find out first-hand what it feels like to see their own children tortured within an inch of their lives and slaughtered. When they fly in for their big meeting, the one they thought had been kept a secret, they will watch me destroy their worlds and their futures. I’m going to broadcast every second of the torment and suffering through your hotel’s security system for everyone to witness.”

Fuck. That’s why Rayleigh drugged Bruno. She needed his fingerprint to infiltrate our hotel security.

That hack job was never about money.

It was about access.

Messina grins. “By the time our viewing party is over, justice will finally have been served, Messina-style.”

CHAPTER22

LILY

Ashiver scuttles down my spine. They took Zeno God only knows where and?—

I clutch my midsection, bile rising in the back of my throat.

What are they going to do to him?

Vito lets out a low, growling bark as if he’s trying to tell me to move my ass and I race toward Zeno’s car and unlocking the door. I place Vito on the floor of the passenger side, and I dart around to the driver’s side, turning on the ignition. Just as the police cars round the corner, I peel out of the parking lot, headed for the strip.

Ten minutes later, I pull up in front of the Excelsior and stop the car in front of the valet stand. One of the valets comes up to me with a curious look. “Name, please?”

“I know what you’re thinking,” I say. “This is Zeno Villani’s car. I’m just dropping it off for him.”

The valet’s face relaxes and he gives me a quick nod. “I’ll make sure he gets the keys,” he says as I rush around the other side of the car and open the door for Vito. I scoop him into my arms and shove one of the glass entryway doors open, panting because my heart is beating with such intensity.

I hug Vito tight against me and surprisingly, he doesn’t try to move. He stays close, as if he knows we’re about to ward off something dangerous.

Dangerous…

I scout the lobby looking for that whore Rayleigh. My fingers itch to bitch slap her and then poke out her eyeballs. A deep breath expels from my lungs. It must be Zeno’s influence.

Maybe that’s a good thing. I need to channel his crazy right now.

My cell phone vibrates and I stop to lay Vito on the ground before grabbing it from my pocket. “Chloe?” I yelp when I see her name. “I just got here!”

“It’s Sergio. Take the elevator at the far corner of the lobby up to the twentieth floor. It’s the parking deck. We’ll be waiting.”

“But I’m in the lobby. Why don’t you just come and pick me up here?”

“Do as I said, Lily, and stop asking questions,” he grunts, hanging up the phone.

Click.

What a colossal dick! Parking deck? If they’re going to go after Zeno, why wouldn’t they just meet me down here? This seems like a huge waste of time when we don’t have much of it to lose.

Still, I have no choice but to follow the instructions since I can’t very well go after Zeno myself without a location.

Or a gun, let’s be realistic.

I pick Vito up and high-tail it across the lobby to the elevator bank leading to the parking deck. I step in once the doors open, tapping my foot as it creeps up to the twentieth floor. Vito shifts in my arms, getting restless. I take that as a good sign and use the time to give him a once-over. His pupils look good, he is alert, and he’s growling like he wants to tear something…or someone…apart.

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