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My heart drops in my stomach as Bianco laughs at her cruel words.
What is she doing?
“Right. If that’s it, then let’s go.”
Rose turns to him completely. “Are we not waiting for them? They’ll be out in no time now, surely.”
I can see she already knows the answer before she asks but she’s throwing her last hopes into this. “Per favore Mateo, cinque minuti.”
Her Italian sounds so real my mouth drops open in shock. For a second I’m wondering if she’s even American, if she was born in Italy maybe, before I remember that we don’t know. Not even her.
The man that I now know for sure is Bianco simply smiles at her, his voice silky smooth. “Don’t be ridiculous. They managed to get themselves in this mess on their own. They can find their way home on their own too.”
“Pero–”
“Speaking Italian to please me won’t bring out my good side, Rose,” he grounds. “I know your little manipulative methods by now.”
And there it is, the real voice. The coldness that just seeped from his mouth as he scolded her like a disobedient girl keeps both of us quiet.
“Now,” he says in a mellow tone again. “I think I’ve been nice enough to get them out of trouble. Don’t you think?”
She nods but I can see how tensed her jaw is, how her muscles tighten below her ears.
“Great. So, let’s go then.”
He smiles a goodbye at me and puts a hand on her neck, but she took her first step towards the door before he even touched her skin.
She’s leaving. She’s leaving with him like it was the plan all along. She didn’t ask him, he didn’t tell her to, she just knows. She said to not get the cops involved because she knew. She knew the minute we called them, one of the cops on Bianco’s payroll would get him involved.
She walks out the door without even as much as a glance back and I fear for her life.
