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“What the fuck is going on?”

I don’t answer yet, still watching the cars behindfor patterns or followers

“DeLuca! How do you knohere hter is?”

“I was hired By thetoburn

“What? How? Why? Goddamn it!” He slams a fist on the dashboard

“He told e The Ruin and everyone involved Myself included I didn’t ask questions”

“You didn’t know she was hter?”

“No, not until I didand learned her maiden name”

“So you kept her alive?” He seems a bit calmer, and I put a stop to his relief in an instant

“Not for you For me”

He scoffs “You want to hold her ransom from me? You must be stupid to think you could do that to me”

I give hihter is ood The only way I can do that is to ensure her happiness”

“You’re out of your goddamn mind,” he barks

“Am I? Because I believe I'm here because you married her off to a monster A man anted her dead because of another woulps, and that shuts hih for him to reassess

“What did he tell you?” he asks me a few moments later

“I told you”

“What did he ask you to do?”

I grip the steering wheel The question even upsetting me

“He wanted et riled up again Marcello is finally calain “When I told him the job was done but that there was no body, he slipped up andwith someone else”