Stefano
“What happened?”
Luca’s loud bark made me raise my head from my hands . I shook my head. I couldn’t explain it, I didn’t even know myself.
One minute , she had been in my arms. A real smile on her face as she looked up at the apartment that would be our home and the next she had jolted. Her eyes wide and confused and blood blossomed across her chest.
“Stefano?”
“Someone shot her.” The voice sounded like
Mine but I hadn’t felt my lips move. Saying the words out loud made them real .
Lily had been shot.
Someone had shot her.
Rage swept up, my vision turned red as I clenched my fists. Someone had tried to take away the one good thing in my life. They had tried to snuff out her light. My light.
Glancing down at my hands, I scrubbed them
On my trousers. I had her blood sta
