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Up ahead in the dark, a pair of Breed thugs in black suits were prowling the perirounds Shit They were both carrying se short on patience Maybe that was a good thing where Bella’s faani into park but left the engine running Since his attire could raise questions he didn’t want to answer, he would have to eet hi the Breed ability that served him well in his stealth line of work, he conjured an illusion that turned his tactical gear into a black suit and altered his face and hair color Then he pulled his own seht to be there
"Jesus Christ," he oateed uys?"
The henchi were the only ones called out for this job Who the hell are you?"
"Backup," Savage said, giving the man a look of disdain He called out to the secondaround fro you so long, Luigi? You find that bitch and her brat back there?"
Luigi shook his head as he started jogging over to ot here"
Savage grunted "Good"
He popped a round into each man’s skull before either of theround, he jogged back to the Pagani Arabella was still hunkered down on the floor in front of the passenger seat like he’d instructed her Good girl
He opened the door "It’s okay Chiara and your nephew aren’t here and the twofor the herself up to peer into the darkness where Massioni’s rass near the house "But Chiara wouldn’t have known to run away There wouldn’t have been tiet very far, especially with a three-year-old in tow" She glanced up at hiliht knohere they are"
Savage held out his hand to assist her fro skirt of her dress, she ran past the dead Breed e at her side They entered the sacked villa and she headed i room at the back of the expansive house An immense wine cellar was attached to the roo wine racks filled with bottles of nearly every vintage the vineyard had ever produced
"Over here," Bella said, walking to the far wall
The bottles housed in those racks looked to be the oldest in the collection Most of the wooden ladder toward her, she clihest bottles in the old rack Instead of pulling the aged bottle of Aglianico out, she twisted it clockwise
It wasn’t a bottle It was a lever to a secret chamber
One narrow section of racked wine popped open soundlessly