Crossfire

POV: Dante

Time slowed to a torturous crawl. I did not blink. I did not breathe. I simply raised my weapon and fired.

The gunshot ruptured the heavy silence of the night. The man holding the gun to Vittoria’s forehead dropped dead before his finger could squeeze the trigger. His body hit the cracked marble with a dull thud. His weapon skittered into the shadows. I kept my gun raised, sweeping th