CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. Luca stared down at an unconscious Melissa. The doctor had told him that the fainting was stress induced and Luca frowned, wondering what exactly she had to be stressed about. It wasn't like she was the one who shot Felix in the head. Granted, she had been an innocent bystander who he'd made to witness such a gruesome act, but that didn't seem like her to faint because of a little blood. Luca frowned when he remembered that he had fainted the first time he'd seen his father kill a man. He was seven then but age didn't change how a person took the first sighting of human blood. His hand closed into a fist, squeezing tight. What happened to Melissa was his fault, because he had wanted her to see his true self, what the Mafia had made him become. Because maybe when sh

