#Chapter 96 – A Safe Place

Christian nods, smirking a little. “Frankie and Nico are fine, except…well, they’re going to want to kill me too,” he murmurs. “But they’re fine.” “Do they know…what you did?” “They’ll have figured it out by now, probably,” he says, a bit dry, looking over at me with a sad little smile. “Everyone will have.” I bite my lip, anxious again. “So, you weren’t supposed to do it?” I ask, soft. “No, Iris, I wasn’t supposed to do it,” he says on a sigh. “I was expressly ordered not to, in fact. I believe my dad’s exact words were to…” he growls a little here, his fingers tightening again on the steering wheel, “forget you ever existed, and let Bonetti do whatever he wanted with your corpse.” My eyes go wide with shock at the violence behind that statement, and just precisely how willing Romano was to let Bonetti have me. “Is there really that much at stake?” I whisper. But I know the answer before Christian exhales and turns his steady gaze to me. “It’s war now, Iris. And in doing what I