"No." Cassidy stepped closer, hands cupping her face. His lips crashed into hers in a bruising kiss, clumsy and desperate and far too full of everything he hadn't said soon enough.
She let herself feel it.
Then the world detonated.
Luca saw red instantly.
One second he was sitting in the car, jaw tight, watching the scene unfold with a predator's stillness. The next, he was out, door slamming, shoes hitting pavement with lethal intent.
"You really are looking to get yourself killed, aren't you?" Luca was suddenly there.
Cassidy turned, placing himself instinctively between Luca and Vee. "For her? Yes!" he shot back. "And then she'd finally be free of you."
Vee surged forward immediately, panic flaring in her chest. She shoved herself between them, hands out, heart hammering. "Please. Please, Luca," she begged. "Its nothing."
"I'm going to kill him!" Luca snapped, eyes never leaving Cassidy's face.
