Rocco POV
My Stellina was brave tonight. She did what any mobster’s daughter would have done. She defended herself against the enemy – and she did it well. The bastard deserved what he got, which was seven bullets to the chest. He could have chosen to harass any girl in the world, but he chose Mia.
Mia, the one Donnie and I swore to protect from this life. The one we swore wouldn’t know what it meant to take a life – to feel the emptiness in her soul after squeezing the trigger.
But this life has a way of sneaking up on you, even when you think you are out of its reach, it grabs ahold of you and yanks you beneath the surface, drowning out any hope of making it out alive. I was lucky… I thought I was out of its reach until the universe gave me cancer. Karma reached into the safety I was
