Betrayal

ISADORA POV

“Don’t waste your time,” I said before I closed the door. There was only one person who could guarantee my parents’ silence at this point. The man my father feared like the devil, and not just because he was his Capo.

“Is Luca still in Philly?”

Elia frowned. “I think so. The meeting is supposed to go late. He won’t return to New York until tomorrow morning.”

“Find out where he is and take me to him.”

Elia cut his gaze to me. “You can’t just go to the Capo.”

“Said Capo is also my cousin. He can make time for family, right?”

“What is going on, Isadora ? You can trust me, or Jude wouldn’t have chosen me as your bodyguard.”

“I trust you.” I looked out of the window. Elia was a good man, and an even better soldier and bodyguard.

“But you won’t tell me what this is about?”

I leaned my forehead against the glass. “I can’t.” Elia was Jude ’s soldier first. He was loyal to him. He’d tell Jude the truth the moment he found out.

“Because Jude isn’t supposed to know.” A hint of suspic