I’m naked,” Teodora
said.
“ Put it back now or you’ll be
naked and under me.”
She dropped the sheet on the bed and ran
for the door, slipping out of the room before I could blink. I
pulled out the knife from my pocket.
Jagger held his arms out wide, the man truly
breathtaking. He was shorter and less muscular than Frano, but
nonetheless, he was perfectly proportioned, his body a work of art.
“I would never turn death away,” he said, his voice
eerie.
“ I’m not going to kill you,” I
said, “ and
you’re nuts if you think death is a good thing.”
“ Then why are you
here?”
“ I want something from you,” I
said, intending on bribing him, which I hadn’t planned on doing
until I saw Frano hugging the FBI troia. I needed her out of my way, or I was going
to end up in a slave cell or dead.
He touched his cock. “Well, I’m
attached to this, so you’re not getting it.”
“ Don’t be ridiculous, I’m not
after revenge. My uncle deserved what you did to him. Instead, what
I want is for you to kill the FBI agent.”
He pulled a face. “You have got to be
kidding.”
“ I will pay you ten million
dollars.”
“ I don’t give a shit about
money, and why would you think I would ever agree to something like
that?”
“ Because you almost killed her seven
years ago.”
His eyes widened, confirming what my
uncle had told me.
I walked around the
bed ,
stopping a few feet away from him, making sure that the knife was
between us. “My Uncle Michael covered for you, letting everyone
believe it was him who had ‘killed’ Sophia Salvi. But it was you.
It may have been an accident, you may not have meant to do it, but
you still did, and since you knew my uncle loved you, you went to
him, asking for his help, knowing he would do anything for
you.”
Jagger screwed up his face. “You’re
talking shit.”
“ You know I’m not. My uncle told
me that I shouldn’t feel so sorry for you after I called him a vile
pedophile. He told me that you weren’t such an innocent young
boy.”
“ Your uncle is a lying monster
who abused me for years!” Jagger yelled, his whole body shaking
with anger, his calm now completely gone.
“ I’m sorry for what he did to
you, he deserves to die for that, but you are still lying about
what you did to Sophia, and if you want me to keep your little
secret, you will finish the job you started seven years
ago.”
His jaw tightened. “No one will believe
your lies, and they are lies, because I didn’t do anything to
her.”
The man was either trying to
trick me or he was deluding himself, and right now I was guessing it
was the latter with the strange way he was acting. Maybe he had
blocked out the memory, but regardless, he still had gotten my
uncle to dispose of what he thought was Sophia’s dead body. It was
just unlucky my uncle had dumped her in the river instead of
burying her alive.
“ Okay,” I said. “If it isn’t
true, then you won’t mind me telling Frano all about
it.”
I went for the door. Without
warning, he rushed me, knocking the knife out of my
hand . Before
I could scream, he rammed me into the wall and covered my mouth
with his hand.
“ You are not going to tell Frano
anything,” he said, “and even if you did, he wouldn’t believe your
lies. Your whole famiglia are a pack of liars, and you’re deluding yourself if you
think I would kill someone I once loved.” He sneered. “Instead, the
only person I will be killing is your sick uncle. I will take great
joy in doing that, and you … you will now pay the price for
threatening me.”
I struggled against him, trying to get out
of his grip.
“ Oh,
I’m going to enjoy fucking a Donatelli, instead of getting fucked
by one.”
I shook my head, yelling that I
was Frano’s, his palm stifling my words.
He
licked his upper lip, the gesture both erotic and terrifying at the
same time. “Sweet women leave a bad aftertaste in my mouth, because
I feel guilty for dirtying