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.*

a long marble lobby leading to another room on the other

her lounging along a large half moon sofa. Black, just like the rest

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

seemed to twist upward in amusement as he shifted his gaze toward my beautiful cousin. As if to say, *this

him, turning my attention toward

cousin," Ruby said. "Long

out, noting the narrowing of DeMarco's gaze at

same. Gorgeous and deadly. Her short cap of bright red hair cradled her deceptively doll-like face, shimmering with every

me in a tight welcoming hug and led me further into the room until we were stopped in front of

on a four horse carriage. I have *never* been this close to anything mafia in all my life. Unless you count

her eyes away from mine to glare at her employer. "Somebody

rise to a blush. Convincing? Really? I'm not a damn beggar! I glared at the *someone* in question, ignoring the sneer of his lips as he continued to scowl at

well... I already told you

catching my attention as he rose from behind the desk to stand. *Jesus, he's tall. Six feet easy.* "Wrap this up, Ruby, I need to be

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