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Or to beg Luca to turn the plane around and take hn

I hadn’t actually made the decision to help Luca find his son until I’d been lying in bed with Vaughn and he’d talked about staying in the life he’d had to take on to look for the boy It was the part when he’d admitted he and his fah that I’d knohat I needed to do I’d already beenover what it would o back to that life and do it alone, without his brother and friends, had o home

They all did

Just like Dante had needed to go home

My brother had been lucky because he’d had Rehn had saved us all

I needed to give that back to Vaughn and his family, and I needed to help Gio because I was Gio and Gio was me There were hundreds of Gios out there, thousands even, and they were all waiting for someone to come for them

I couldn’t save the to save at least one

Would Vaughn understand that?

Would he forgive me?

Was he even going to come?

“He knoe’re here?” I asked,a bit “Not in the city?”

Luca nodded, his expression softening a bit “He knoe’re in the Haet here We spent most of our childhood in this house because our mother preferred it to the city”

Iso I tucked s so it wouldn’t be as obvious

Then I reers “I’s and jumped to my feet to see if I’d stained the pretty fabric

“Aleks—”

“I should have washed my hands better,” I said, completely horrified “Those men took me from work so my hands were still dirty and I was too upset to really scrub theot here—”

Terror began to skate through my syste the cold man’s expensive couch?

“Aleks!” Luca called and I snappednow They looked worried

“Aleks, the couch is fine and your hands aren’t dirty Even if you rolled around in mud and then on this couch, I swear to you, I wouldn’t care It’s okay”