Bonus Scene

This fucker is the reason my brother is currently locked up behind bars. He's also the reason my other brother lost his fiancée. I usually go for the fast kills. I've never seen the point in playing with my prey. But watching Alex count through his instruments of torture, seeing how far down the list he can get before the fucker in front of us either dies or passes out?

Yeah, I can't say I'm not enjoying it.

I haven't gotten shit out of him on Shelli, though. The only thing he's said about her was that she was a means to an end. That she didn't know he was a cop. She did, however, willingly enter into an affair with him. She knowingly cheated on my brother and was still about to walk down the aisle with him.

There are so many unanswered questions. And then there's Santo. I don't know what to do with him and this information. Do I keep it to myself? Let him remember Shelli as the perfect girlfriend he knew her to be in his mind? Or do I break his heart all over again and tell him the truth?

I don't know. But that's a problem I can deal with later. Right now, I want to watch this asshole take his last breath.

Alex gets to item number four on his table of torture implements. "You know, most people don't last this long," he hums. "But there's a special place in hell for rat bastards like you. I don't care how long it takes me to send you there."

"Fuck you." The guy balls up a mouthful of saliva and hoicks it in our direction.

"Wait." I drop a hand to Alex's wrist to stop him. "I have one more question." I walk closer to the fucker bound to the chair. "Did you know she was pregnant? Shelli, did you know she was pregnant?" I repeat.

"Why do you think she had to die?" He laughs. "She was talking about leaving your brother, wanted me to help raise the little brat. So I made sure your old man found out what she was doing. That she was an informant. You assholes are all the same, so fucking easy to play. Your father did my dirty work for me. Couldn't risk the dumb bitch leaving and outing me."

I blink. She really didn't know he was a cop. Whatever she told him, she didn't realise she was ratting on the family. At the same time, she did fuck around on my brother, and knowing that makes me mourn her death a hell of a lot less.

"Continue. Make it fucking hurt like hell," I tell Alex. My phone vibrates in my pocket. I glance at the screen. Swipe it up and answer it. "Marcel, I'm a little busy."

"I might need your help," he says.

"Why?"

"I just killed a Russian…"

"I'll be right there. Drop me a pin," I tell him before hanging up.

I swear to God, one of these days, one of my brothers is going to send me to an early fucking grave.

Get the next instalment in the De Bellis Crime Family Series with A Sinner's Virtue (Marcel and Zoe's Story).