I blink at him, noticing the bottle of water he’s holding. It’s water from the fridge in my father’s office. “Who gave you that?”
“I did,” says Gigi as she walks with a beautiful limp down the corridor with a smug smile plastered on her face. The men who saved me from Kristian are with her too. Only now, they have their guns pointed at Dino and me. “Your father wants you in his office now.”
“She’s going fucking nowhere with you,” Dino says, stepping in front to protect me, but it’s the wrong move. Several men also step forward, guns raised.
“Really? You’d die for her?” Gigi asks him, an incredulous look on her face.
“In a heartbeat,” Dino snarls.
She doesn’t like that answer. Clearly, no one has ever stepped in front of a gun for her. But Dino doesn’t see the guy behind him moving in, and I’m much too slow with whatever it is in my system to warn him.
It all sort of happens in slow motion.
The guy whacks him over the head. Dino goes down like a sack of bricks. And two of Adrien’s men seize my arms to keep me from falling flat on my face.
“I’m going to finish what Dante started,” I say. “And burn the rest of you.”
“Poor Viola,” Gigi says, grabbing my chin to make me look up at her. “Did you really think Griffin would betray your father like that? Dante can’t help you now. Pretty soon, he’ll be dead. Just like all the rest.”
I spit in her face, and she grins.
“Bring her,” Gigi barks and I can do nothing but let them drag me down the corridor toward my father. Strangely, I’m not thinking about killing Adrien or finding Rebecca. Or even burning Gigi alive. I’m worrying about Dino on the floor, and the trap Dante and Lorcan are walking into.
The last thing on my mind as the main room looms and I see my father standing next to a deranged looking Kristian as he holds Lily hostage…is that I never got to tell Dante the truth.