Exquisite Torment

Rocco’s POV

I ended the call before he could respond and tossed the phone onto the passenger seat. He knew better than to argue. Fabbri had been my jeweler for years, since before Nella, before the empire was built. He’d learned long ago that when I called, there was no negotiation.

The city blurred past as I drove through on pure instinct. My mind was somewhere else, planning, imagining Alessia