Page 113 of Deathless & Divided
“What are you dancing around?” Dino asked.
“What is left? Who’s left?”
“The boss.”
Damian should have known that.
When Dino first discussed his plans with Damian, there had been no mention of dividing the families. Not like they had ended up, anyway. The issues with the Poletti hit simply tipped the scales in Dino’s favor.
It gave a justifiable, reasonable way to keep total suspicion off the restaurant shooting as being an inside job. Dino chose to run with it. Damian had no other choice but follow behind. Like with everything else, the issue only grew. The paranoia grew. Riley Conti’s anger helped to cover Dino and Damian’s tracks further.
No one really knew that they were fighting for nothing.
Well, not nothing. They just weren’t fighting for the right reasons.
“Are we going after him for me or for you?” Damian finally asked, repeating his earlier words.
“Both.”
Well, that answered everything, didn’t it?
The anger Damian had been holding back about the bullet holes in Lily’s car finally spilled over. He couldn’t control it any longer.
“Eight!” Damian shouted.
Dino didn’t even flinch from Damian’s show of rage. “Eight what?”
“Eight bullet holes across the bumper of her Maserati. Two more went through the back windshield!”
“It’s a car, Damian. We’ll get it fixed.”
“That is not the fucking point,” Damian hissed.
“You’re dancing a thin line,” Dino warned.
Damian was damn well ready to jump the hell over it.
“Too close, Dino. That was too close for comfort.”
“Like I said—”
“Too close.”
Dino sighed. “Her vehicle wasn’t the only one with bullet holes.”
“She could have been inside.”
Didn’t Dino realize that?
“She wasn’t.”
“She could have been!” Damian yelled, his anger boiling over.
“You made sure she wasn’t.”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Lily padded into the dark, empty kitchen. Pulling a glass out of the cupboard, she tipped the cup under the sink faucet and turned on the water. She’d woken up out of a dead sleep for no other reason than her throat was dry and she needed a drink.
