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"I know I’ll keepna&iu to her, but I need to be there, no e of his nose "Fine We’ll tie up soazed at hiuy, and"

He couldn’t finish his thought, but he didn’t have to Vincent understood "We have Johnny in the basement He hasn’t said much, but I injected hio"

"Sodium what?"

"Sodiuher cortical functions of the brain, and since lying is such a colish, please"

"Truth serum," Vincent said "Hypothetically, anyway"

Carmine nodded "And Nicholas?"

Vincent stared at him, the look on his face the only answer Carmine needed Even across the roo I could do"

Dawn broke as Vincent stood in the safe roo Johnny "Tell me where she is and this will end"

"I can’t," he said for what had to be the hundredth ti through his veins

Corrado approached, his dark eyes filled with rage It wasn’t so Vincent saw often It was a look that said someone was about to die

Violently

Vincent stepped out of the way as Corrado strode over to the cabinet along the wall He rifled through it, pulling out knives and pliers,the tools on the steel worktable in the safe rooame of eeny, meeny, miny, moe"

Unable to stomach as about to happen, Vincent walked away A loud screah the base the room soonin pieces

Corrado resurfaced an hour later, drenched from the rain outside and splattered with blood His face was unreadable once more "Russians"

The lone word nearly stopped Vincent’s heart "She’s with the Russians? Why?"

"Because she’s one of ours Isn’t that reason enough?"

"They know?"

"They may have known before we did," Corrado said "This is spiraling out of control Up until now, you’ve taken a backseat, but that can’t happen any away"

Vincent knew that, even if he didn’t want to ad her?"

"Joey didn’t know"

Vincent’s brow furrowed "I thought his name was Johnny"

"Joey, Johnnywhat’s the difference?" Corrado started walking away "I took care of the body You can clean up the mess"

Vincent headed back down to the base his way to the safe room The concrete floor was soaked in red, splatters of it on the ceiling He wasn’t sure how Corrado ed to do that, but he didn’t plan to ask

He’d learned long ago never to ask for details

The rain outside was so heavy Carazed out the family roomin such a trance that he didn’t hear footsteps approaching He caught a glirabbed his chest, wincing as he turned around "You scared me"

Corrado unbuttoned his soiled shirt "You aren’t very observant"

"You’re just stealthy, like a fucking ninja"

Ninja The moment he said it, he felt like he had been slapped Tears tried to force their way from his eyes, but he held them back in front of his uncle