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“He’s with me” I could only repeat because my throat still ached when I spoke

“When you’re with us, you don't need anyone else,” the wolanced down tohter

“I didn't say I ith you”

“That doesn't save him; it just means you die with him,” he countered

“And here I thought the mafia honored loyalty—”

“Only until it co over to us “He's old; what you need to do is beyond him He can't protect you anymore—”

“I'll protect him, then! He's family! MY FAMILY SO PUT DOWN THE FUCKING GUN!”

“Yell at un down your throat first,” he snapped, the barrel of gun pointed at me

“Go ahead, then You’re the ones who have wasted your ti bitch-ass princes in towers for free, now?” I snapped back

There was silence

They glanced at each other for er, I finally let hio

“Fine, he lives But if you want to win this fight, you’re going to have to leave him, your morality, and any sort of co me the eye “You'll never take the throne with hoeak you are now Abandon hier than even you thought was possible”

“Why does it sound like I' my soul?”

“What good is a soul when you’re not even free to live in a shitty apart her ar a home “Do you want this or do you want Monaco? If so, there is a price That is how your stepin with You can only beat evil with a greater evil So, I will ask you once and only once: do you want to rule or do you want to die in this shitty apartment?”

I didn't have to think about it which said a lotto admit aloud yet “My humanity never helped me, anyway”