“I want him alive and strapped down. He will pay for touching what is mine.” They don’t question me and move him out of the room.
I lift McKenna up and she slowly opens her eyes. “It’s a trap,” she says softly.
“What,amore?”
“When you land, he’s going to kill you. How are you here?”
“As soon as I heard you’d been taken, we turned around and headed back. I never landed. You will always be my first priority. We also got notification that an explosive device was found at the hangar. They took care of it already, no one was hurt. I’ve got you. You’re safe now.” She’ll be completely safe once I find out who hired Cody.
McKenna tries to push away as I move toward the pier. “No, I want to watch you kill him.”
“Amoremio,it’s not going to be pretty. He’ll suffer for touching you.”
“Cut off his balls, Dante. Make him eat them,” she demands. She’s my avenging angel in this moment. “He killed Kara.” She turns me on, and I want her, but I won’t jeopardize her or her well-being with that. No man but me will see my doll as she orgasms.
“We know. We found her body. Are you sure?” I’m not sure I like the idea of her seeing another man’s penis and testicles, but I will do anything for her.
“Dante, I want my revenge. I deserve my revenge.”
“Yes,amore mio.” I stop and turn back to the men carrying Cody. “Strip him and strap him spread out,” I order them in Italian. My father nods his head and the guys do as I order.
I sit McKenna down in a chair carefully and watch as realization hits a now conscious Cody. I pull my blade and twist it in my hands. It’s sharp enough to do this. When he’s bared, I turn to McKenna. “Don’t look at him my love.” Her lips tip up at me. I’ll be taking her as soon as I’m done with this. Regardless of her injuries, I’ll fuck her as soon as I have her at my warehouse as proof that she is mine.
On that thought, I turn to my father. “I’ll find out who hired him.” He nods, and I advance on Cody. I look down at his flaccid junk and don’t want to touch it. So I pull my boot knife and lift it up with that. My primary blade is so sharp he barely feels me cutting off his balls.
“Tell me who hired you.” I hold one ball up to show him it speared on my knife blade. He looks down and realizes I cut off both of them. Blood flows from his crotch and his abdomen.
“It was all anonymous. Why should I tell you more? You’re going to kill me anyway. I’m dying already.” He tries to spit at me, using a little bit of the bravado that has come over him. I use my other knife and prick his small penis.
“Because I’ll cut this off next. In the afterlife, you won’t have either.”
“I’ll give you the routing information for the bank and IP address, if you’ll take me to a hospital now,” he demands, and I look over his head to my father.
“The Capo will grant you some mercy,” I offer, but I want to kill him.
He rattles off the information and I shove the ball on my knife into his mouth. He chokes and spits it out, then yells at me.
I turn back to McKenna, who stands and walks toward me. “You didn’t kill him. Why?”
“Because we need to find out who hired him to stop them.”
“I don’t care,” she yells, and reaches into my jacket for my sidearm. People scurry away from her as she stands with the gun aimed at him. “Die, arsehole, you’ll get no mercy from me.” As if she already knows she’s a true Rossi, she stands there perfectly, and we all wait and watch him die. When he takes his final breath, it’s with curses on his lips and a gurgle.
* * *
We’reon our way to my father’s estate instead of my warehouse, and I’m gritting my teeth because I want my doll. She’s asleep on my lap. The doctor said she didn’t need a scan unless she showed more signs of the concussion. I kind of wish I took longer killing Cody, but we got the information, and I forwarded it to Anatonia and Santi.
“I found out she loved a dress at the shop today. They have it in her size and will have it delivered tomorrow. You’ll marry her before the night falls,” my father demands.
“We wanted more than a rushed wedding.” I remember McKenna saying she wanted to wait to see if her memory came back before she married me.
“I’ll explain that because she’s Rossi and we need to protect her, this is for the best.”
She sits up in my lap. “I’m what?”
My father turns in his seat, away from the window he was looking out. His eyes look like dark pools of blackness in the dark. His jaw is tight and normally he wouldn’t explain himself.
“I’m Capo because the Rossi family was killed. Their bodies were left to burn in a car outside of town. It was a disgrace and we’ve never been able to find out who ordered the hit. Tonight, that man gave us information to avenge them possibly, but we must protect you.” He waves at her neck area. “That birthmark on the back of your neck is a family trait of the Rossi family. I didn’t know there was a living Rossi, or I would have only accepted the appointment as temporary until you could take over. But because you and Dante have found each other and he swore to marry you, he must to protect you.” He pauses and takes a deep breath before he lets it out. He looks her deep in the eye. “Katriana, I’m sworn to protect you. If you’ll take my son’s name, a Rossi-Lupo union should protect you. He will succeed me still, but today is proof that someone is trying to not only kill all the Rossis but also my son. I won’t lose Dante like I did Luna or his mother.” I realize then what the toll on him today cost. He could have lost both of us and would have no heir and no family left. His union with Livia, my stepmother, hasn’t produced any children.