Chapter 12
“Where’d she go?”
“Turned out she was knocked up and her father was doubling down on demanding to know who she was protecting. He tried to force an abortion. Held a gun at her head and gave her the option of death or family. If she chose family, she aborted the abomination as he called it. She chose death. Tyrell’s informants said her mother Apollonia stood in front of him and told him if he killed their daughter he may as well kill her too. In the end he threw her out without protection. Tyrell stepped up and for the three years she worked here with him, he kept her protected along with the family of her best friends. Since he sold the company, the friend’s family keep an eye on her, but we’ve helped out.”
“Who are the friends?”
“Bianchi. The Don of the Bianchi family has nieces, twins, who are her best friends.”
He rubbed his forehead as he stared at her staff photo which was likely on her id badge. It was a horrible photo. Blurred. Her glasses reflecting glare. Her hair all in her face. “Who took this photo?”
“Probably the old guy who used to work security when she was first hired. He was a hundred years old, but Tyrell owed him and let him work in the booth on qur first floor. He died before you took over.”
“Is this her current address?”
“I’m going to say yes but I’ve never personally been there.”
“Let’s go. I want a full team there.”
“Boss, do you think,” Tito’s voice was hoarse as they both looked at the health application for
“Yeah, I do.”
“Fuck.” Tito leaned his head back and looked at the ceiling. “I’m sorry.”
“If she’s gone when we get there, I’ll let you choose which kneecap you want to lose.‘
“Done.” Tito didn’t even argue.
a
son.
“What is going on?” Kylen asked curiously as he stood up to accompany his bosses. “If I’m bringing the team, I need to know what is going on. Are we taking out one of our own? This could start a war with Mariani and while I don’t care because he’s an asshole, I’d like to know why I’m targeting Alcee.”
“Almost six years ago, I met a woman online and we spent the night together. The Zanelli family made a play and four of his men were caught fucking with my fleet of cars, putting bombs in them. I wasn’t keen on leaving my hotel room because, well it was the first fuck I’d been able to finish since Quentina. My dick actually worked and wasn’t trying to escape the pussy, and it was good, really good.” He knew he was being blunter than necessary, but it needed to be said. “I sent a message to Zanelli by offing his capo regime and two of his other men and sent the third back pretty beaten all the while thinking the girl slept through it but turned out she witnessed some, if not all, of it. I got her out of the room into another suite and was going to continue where we were so rudely interrupted but Tito dragged me away for less than two minutes and she made a break for it. She gave me a fake name.”
“Aya Lombardi.” Tito offered.
“Fuck,” Torq punched the elevator door as they waited for it arrive. “She fucking used her mother’s family name. How the fuck did I not connect Lombardi!”
“I have a crew about fifteen minutes out from her house. If she took the subway, they’ll get there before her.” Tito looked up from his phone.
Kylen inhaled sharply, “you think she’s a loose end?”
“No.”
“You sure on the age of the kid?” Bastiano asked Kylen.
“Yeah. I was here when she was pregnant working off and on for Tyrell almost six years ago. She actually went into labour while she in this building filling out her leave forms. Her water broke in HR. The HR rep drove her to the hospital and Tyrell demanded a full team escort her in case her father started shit. It was quiet aside from the dramatic arrival of the boy. Tyrell thought the old man really did wipe his hands clean.”
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“What’s his name?” Torg gave a single shake of his head as he tried to wrap his head around the fact it was highly probable, he fathered a five- year old son he hadn’t known existed.
“Antero.” Kylen answered and then nervously asked, “you’re thinking he’s yours?”
“I was engaged to Alcee Mariani from the time she was twelve until she was twenty–one. I lost all trust in women after Quentina and as a result, 1 opted to make my own path. Fuck women affiliated with families and business, I wanted someone untouched from outside this world. I found Aya, made her mine and she bolted like a scared rabbit, but I decided after the night 1
thinking I knew I’d get her back and boldly called off my engagement without actual as with her, she was mine and mine alone. I was cocky
“They were the same person,” Kylen put it together.
getting Aya back first.”
“According to Alcee earlier, she thought the reason I called off our engagement was because I found out she’d lost her virginity. She slept with me to get rid of her purity as a bargaining chip her father was using. Basically, the morning she went home with her hymen no longer intact, I called off the wedding. Mariani thought I called it off because I fucking know every detail of his shitty family,” he rolled his eyes sarcastically, “and punished her for it. The kid is mine.”
As they moved through the lobby to the waiting cars, he felt his fists flexing again. He looked to Tito, “get me her father on the phone. I want him to know I’m holding him personally responsible for putting my son onto the street with no protection other than what Tyrell offered her. Fucker is going to wish he’d been given a better upbringing so he could have learned to be a better father. Prick.”
Slamming into the passenger seat of the SUV he punched the dash again, fully aware his lack of control over his temper was uncommon for him yet he was helpless to stop it.
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