CHAPTER 6
Matteo grabbed Vance by the throat, slamming the corrupt federal supervisor against the wall until his feet dangled six inches off the ground.
"You used my secretary," Matteo growled, his voice dropping into a demonic register as his hand tightened around Vance's airway like an iron vise.
"Matteo, don't kill him!" Sienna shouted, picking up a dropped firearm from the floor and securing the hallway entrance. "We need him alive to clear my name!"
Matteo looked over at her, his dark, dangerous eyes softening for a fraction of a second before he slammed Vance’s head against the wall, knocking him unconscious.
"He lives for now," Matteo grunted, tossing the limp federal supervisor onto the floor beside the dead marshals like a sack of trash.
"How did you break out of high-security cuffs?" Sienna asked, staring at him in complete disbelief as alarm sirens began blaring throughout the building.
"I own the lock company that built this facility, Sienna," Matteo replied with a dark, confident smirk, retrieving his tailored jacket from the bench. "Now grab the drives and move; we have ninety seconds before the entire SWAT division locks down this wing."
Sienna grabbed the primary evidence drives from the table, following the formidable crime boss through a hidden service elevator shaft built into the facility's floor plans.
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As the elevator plummeted rapidly toward the underground parking garage, Sienna looked at the man she had spent weeks trying to put behind bars.
"Why did you save me?" she asked quietly over the mechanical hum of the elevator cables. "I was setting you up for a lifetime prison sentence."
