chiara
Officer William sat, tied up in his home with a gag in his mouth and tears staining his cheeks. I didn’t give a single fuck about him, but I could tell that Alessandro wanted to kill his ass for ever sleeping with me. Alessandro paced the room with his gun in his hand.
I placed William’s cell phone on the table in front of him. “You’re going to call my dad,” I said to him, crouching by his side.
He stared at me with teary eyes and shook his head.
I grasped his chin and forced him to nod. “If you want to live, you’re going to call him and tell him to meet you here. Tell him you have me in your custody. Tell him that I’m being charged with murdering his guards. Don’t—do not—fuck it up. You do whatever you have to do to get him to come here.”
Alessandro grabbed a fistful of his hair and pulled it back so William stared directly up at him. “If you seem nervous or if he figures out that you’re lying, I’ll kill you and your entire family. Do you understand?”
After he nodded, Alessandro ripped the duct tape from his mouth.
William let out a whimper and looked at me. “Chiara, please, let me go. This isn’t you. Please, don’t—”
I picked up his phone and dialed Dad’s number, which he had on speed dial.
Almost immediately, William shut his mouth. The phone rang a few times.
“Make this quick,” Dad said through the phone.
“I have Chiara,” William said, glancing at me. He parted his lips and pressed them back together, as if he wanted to say something but thought better of it. “Just wanted to see what you want me to do with her before I… I, uhm, take her down to the station.”
“Bitch,” Dad said over the phone.
All I wanted to do was wrap my hands around his throat and kill that bastard. It wasn’t a choice anymore. I had to do it, not for myself or for Mom, but for everyone.
Dad paused. “Ricardo’s. Ten minutes. Don’t be late.”
“You’ll have to hurry,” William said. “I don’t have much time before my boss finds out.”
Dad grumbled, and then the line went dead. He didn’t have to answer for me to know that he was coming. He was desperate to end this madness once and for all. He wanted to kill me so I couldn’t snitch on him.
I shut the phone off and tossed it aside, glancing at Alessandro. “Prepare.”