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‘Fuck.’ I put my fist through Tim’s plasterboard wall as he squealed. Storming to his room, I smashed anything electronic I could find. Hard drives, his laptop, even his phone.
‘Stop!’ he shouted.
‘Get out of this flat and stay away from Valentina and Lara for good. If you ever set foot in this building or within a mile of them again, I’m going to split your ballsack open and feed you your nuts.’
‘Lara, go home and lock the door. I’ll send some of my guys round to make sure Tim here listens to me.’
‘I’ll call the police,’ he said.
‘You think we don’t have them in our pockets? That they’d give a shit about a peeping-fucking-tom?’ I rounded on Tim and laid a boot into his ribcage. ‘You’re lucky I haven’t suspended you out of your window by your guts. If I didn’t need to go get my girl, I would.’
Sending a text to my tech guys, I had them destroy any trace of Tim’s online backups while I got into my car and headed straight for the Valetti mansion.
CHAPTER FORTY FIVE
VALENTINA
My head throbbed as I blinked awake, taking in the dimly lit space around me. Large metal pipes and old machinery surrounded me. My mouth was dry as I licked my lips.
‘Where am I?’ I groaned, my voice crackling.
‘Ah Valentina, you’ve joined us at last.’
The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as my cousin’s voice came from behind me. I tried to turn, but my arms wouldn’t cooperate. Looking down, I found myself tied to a metal pipe that disappeared into the floor.
‘What the fuck, Hugh?’ I said, trying to crane my neck round to spot him.
Two of his men loitered near a doorway, but I couldn’t see Hugh.
‘Untie me!’
Hugh laughed, and footsteps approached directly behind me.
‘Why’d you have to be such a little whore? Hmm, Sweet Cherry? You tried to ruin all my plans.’
‘What plans?’ Confusion swept through me as I tried to make sense of what he was saying through my thumping headache.
‘My plans to have Nicole marry Logan to take the heat off of us. So I can continue to have her, but please Uncle Tony and his need for her to wed a decent mafia guy. To fill her with my babies and pretend they were Logan’s. To see my sons claim both the Valetti and the McGowan lines and steal them right out from under their noses.’
‘You... and Nicole?’ Nothing he was saying made any sense. ‘You want to get your sister pregnant?’
‘Not want to, Valentina, I already have.’
My stomach lurched as he walked around me and crouched beside me. ‘But you’ve bewitched Logan with that slutty cunt of yours, haven’t you? He tried to call off the deal for you. But we couldn’t let that happen.’
‘That’s why you’ve taken me?’
‘No. We had enough to keep him playing the game like a good boy. I’ve taken you because he caught Nicole and I together last night, and I need to keep his mouth shut until the wedding goes ahead.’
‘He’s not going to sit back and let you hurt me.’
‘He will. He has no idea where you are. If he doesn’t play, then you’ll die.’
‘You’re a sick fuck.’
‘I’m taking what is mine. I am the eldest child and the only son, and Tony has forced me to take what belongs to me.’ Hugh’s face broke into an unhinged smile as he leaned forward and stroked a finger along my collarbone. ‘It was never her I wanted. It was always you. I used to watch you sucking on those cherry lollipops and imagine it was my dick. You were always such a tease.’
My chest seized as I tried to move away from his touch. ‘I was just a kid.’
