Alex DeMarco
**ROMANY**
What th fuck? Isn't anyone going to answer?
*Ping* Ruby-
Just come in bitch. It's unlocked.
Oh. Fuck. Okay.
I lifted my hand up to the gleaming gold handle and turned. The moment I stepped past the door, the damn thing swung shut with an automatic grace and a definitive click. The black of the open hallway and the floor to ceiling macabre marble seemed to swallow every ounce of light in the space. Shuttering me in complete darkness.
"Hello?" I called out. I couldn't see a damned thing. Nothing.
"Ro!" Ruby's voice sounded on my left, down a short lonely hallway. I instinctively turned that direction, taking a small step and triggering the sensored track lighting along the floor. *Well, thank fuck.*
could see the pitch black before me was actually a long marble
to find her lounging along a large half moon sofa. Black, just like the
my eyes on sat draped in a separate corner of the room. His heavily muscled frame somewhat hidden behind a heavy mahogany desk. He wore the look of someone who is *never* kept waiting. Full lips in a half frown, he lifted his chin in my direction. His sparkling green eyes flared as they assessed me. Their emerald depths falling over my body in a slow perusal and his sharply chiseled jaw clenching in what I could only assume was
manicured brows seemed to twist upward in amusement as he shifted his gaze toward my beautiful
glowered at him, turning my attention toward Ruby
cousin," Ruby said. "Long time
I choked out, noting the narrowing of DeMarco's gaze at the sound
charcoal eyeliner and despite that I hadn't actually seen her in a year, she looked exactly the same. Gorgeous and deadly.
hug and led me further into the room until we were stopped in front
horse carriage. I have *never* been this close to anything mafia in all
mine to glare at
not a damn beggar! I glared at the *someone* in question, ignoring the sneer of his
well... I
behind the desk to stand. *Jesus,
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