LUCA

The sight of my brother so close to her...

It took everything I had not to tear his fingers from her body and crush his skull between my bare hands. My blood burned in my veins and a red haze covered my vision, but I showed none of this. I held my body in perfect control, clenching my hands into fists in my pockets to restrain myself from wrapping them around his throat and squeezing until his lips turned blue and his eyes popped out of his head. "Step away from her. Slowly."

Instead of doing as I'd told him, Mario wrapped his arm around her waist and tugged...