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I needed ure out who the body belonged to, it would be easier to look for a connection to the Marchesis

I slipped the ring back into the evidence bag and placed it in n it out into my custody, but I didn’t For now, I didn’t want anyone else asking about the ring Devil was mine to deal with

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Devil

After a harrowing evening when Caelo and I finally tracked Sergio down and elielo shot him and set fire to his house We watched until ere sure there was no chance Sergio would use his last few breaths to crawl free from the blaze

Sirens screamed in the distance

“That’s our signal to leave,” I said

I was about to start elo shouted “Oh fuck No”

“What’s wrong?”

“My ring It’s not on hting Lucien’s going to fucking kill me”

Nonna had given us s for our sixteenth birthdays I pulled elo “Take h hell today You don’t need to deal with Luce being pissed at you for leaving evidence behind”

Angelo frowned “But he’ll be harder on you He expects you to screw up”

“I can handle it I’m used to it”

He worked the ring onto his finger “Thank you You know I’d do anything for you too, right?”

He would We would die for each other “I do”

“Including listen to whatever happened with Detective Daniels”

I looked down, trying to appear very interested in ht there ready to spill out, but what if Angelo couldn’t understand? What if he thought I’d betrayed the faone behind Lucien’s back? “I just can’t tell you”