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.*
see the pitch black before me was actually a long marble lobby leading
to find her lounging along a large
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 disapproval. He was much younger than I pictured he might be. Especially for a
as he shifted his gaze toward my
turning my attention toward
Ruby said. "Long time no
out, noting the narrowing of DeMarco's gaze at the sound of
looked exactly the same. Gorgeous and deadly. Her short cap of bright red hair cradled her deceptively doll-like face, shimmering with every little toss of her head, making her look like
hug and led me further into the room until we
b-been here for an hour," I said softly, stuttering as my anxiety rode in on a four horse carriage. I have *never* been this close to anything mafia in all my life. Unless you
her eyes away from mine to glare at her employer. "Somebody
beggar! I glared at the *someone* in question, ignoring the sneer of his lips as he continued
to my cousin. "Oh, well... I already told you
to stand. *Jesus, he's tall. Six feet easy.* "Wrap this up, Ruby, I need to
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