Chapter 10
Nico
Today four soldiers are going to the church to pick up the woman if she turns up.
The CCTV revealed a small person dropping the letter into the mailbox, wearing black, with a hoodie covering their face, as you would expect.
It was impossible to identify who this person was, but from the size, it had to be a woman.
All I can do now is wait for them to bring her in.
The week has flown past with the amount of work that has had to be done.
I’ve had my new Capos situated, and they have all my instructions of how, when and what is needed.
Mateo surprised me as he left his family for the moment in the safe house, and is securing his position before he moves them into the 8-bed mansion he settled with.
Terizo lasted three days under Philip's and Bruno’s ministrations.
I checked out the basement and was surprised to see Terizo had no fingers, toes, eyes or ears.
But they both had left his tongue as they wanted as much information from him as possible before they cut his throat.
The information they gained led to recovering millions of dollars from offshore accounts, and removing six made men that were also benefitting from Terizo’s skimming.
Terizo’s wife and daughter have been allowed to leave, as they knew nothing of what was happening.
It seems they lived mostly with no contact with Terizo, so I allowed them to live in a small house on the edge of Philip’s territory, and he’ll keep surveillance on them for a while.
It looked as though Varina was being pressured to marry.
He allowed her to flee the wedding before he forced her car off the road to stop her from telling me about his treachery.
I’m thinking this friend is going to give me the information Varina collected against her father.
Sadly, we know it all now and he has paid for all he has done.
There was no reason for Varina to die, but I can be thankful she was loyal to the family.
I’ll make sure her mother and sister live outside of the family, and have recompense for all they must have lived through.
Looking and discarding the last report on my desk, I am at last free to chase my woman.
Yes, she's going to make a run for it, without a doubt.
But, I am looking forward to the challenge and the chase if it comes to it.
Picking up my phone, I send a message to my housekeeper at the mansion.
The Boss: Make the second suite ready for my wife.
I want everything that she will need at hand.
Yasmine: Yes, sir.
I’ll have it aired out and ready by this evening.
I grin at the ‘The Boss’ that Yasmine had me enter, as she was determined that everyone should know exactly who was calling.
Even down to my right-hand men.
Yasmine has been with the family a long time, and I’ve tried to have her retire, but she’ll have none of it.
Instead, I had a room downstairs near the kitchen turned into a bedroom suite.
That way she can stay here forever and always feel a part of the running of the mansion.
She is going to love having Elli here.
She has wanted me to find a wife for a long time, and I know she’s going to spoil Elli.
I just hope that Elli is good with her, and she’ll be kind to the staff.
Walking out of the office, I give Gail a smile as I stop before her desk.
“I’m going to the mansion office.
You can either come with me and work from there or stay here.”
“I’ll stay as I have some work to catch up on, and Luigi asked me for some information which I need to dig out.”
Gail quickly looks back at her computer monitor, not realizing she’s dismissed me, which I have to admit amuses me because when it dawns on her what she’s done she’ll go into her very own panic mode.
Gail is helping all the new Capos with any and all information they are asking for.
She’s holding interviews next week for secretaries for them, but she’s tough on applicants, so it may take some time to find the right ones.
Forty minutes later I walk into my office at the mansion, thankful that I kept this place which isn’t too far from my main office.
Dante had grumbled that he’s bored and needs something to do while I’m in the office, mansion or gym.
I imagine it does get boring waiting for something to do, so I upgraded him to driver and butler.
That, he didn’t like at all, but I was able to keep the humor of it to myself until now.
Holding back the smirk is not going to happen and it turns into a laugh when I remember Yasmine’s frown when I told her she now has a butler in the mansion.
My phone rings and I pick up when I see it’s Alex Palmeri calling, “Alex?”
“Boss, I needed you to know as soon as I did that Renata has gone missing.
I went over to the house to check on her and pick up the last of my belongings and the staff told me she left yesterday lunchtime and hasn’t been back.”
“I see.
Leave it with me Alex, I’ll alert my men, we’ll find her.”
Closing the call, I rub my chin in thought.
I bet the bitch is going after Elli!
Three phone calls later and I have six men now watching over Elli.
She’s not going to like it, but I gave the men permission to tell Elli why they are following her if it looks like she’s going to run.
As soon as this information from Varina’s friend is done and I know if this woman is a threat or not I am going to bring Elli in.
It’s time.
A knock on the door before it opens and Igor, one of my soldiers, walks into the office while holding the arm of a small young woman.
I can see he’s not hurting her, and it appears she is leaning into him a little…interesting!
“Boss, this is Anya De Lillo, she was Varina’s friend.
She has some information for you.”
Igor takes a large envelope from Anya and hands it to me, before guiding her to sit in a seat in front of my desk.
“There is no need to be frightened, Anya.
I probably have the information you are bringing to me.
Terizo cannot hurt you as he’s no longer a threat to anyone.”
I know she will understand what I’m saying without having to blurt out that Terizo is dead.
“Varina asked me to get that information to you if anything happened to her.
I wanted to honor my promise to her.
But if Mr.
Gambolini is dead, are Varina’s mother and sister?”
That has me looking at her sharply because why would she ask me that? I hold up a finger to ask her to wait a minute, and open the envelope.
My eyes scan the information and my temper explodes.
Those bitches! They acted so innocent, left no trail on the surface, and we cannot have dug deep enough because this information shows they were both up to their necks in the shit with Terizo.
“Get those two bitches in the basement.
I want them out of that fucking house now.”
Igor snaps to attention and rushes out of the office.
“I’m sorry Anya, I didn’t mean to scare you.
I had no idea that those two were involved in all of this.
But, I’m telling you now Varina will have justice because I will make sure she does.”
“Varina didn’t want to marry, but it wasn’t you, she didn’t want to marry anyone.
She wanted to get away from her family, go to work, find a man who knew nothing about her family, and have a family of her own.”
Anya rubs her hands together before laying them in her lap, then continues.
“She wasn’t a person who would hurt anyone, but I know she had put her mother and sister behind her.
She would not hold it against you if you had to, you know, take them out.
She was loyal to the family, but she had a need to be free of the blood family.”
“I had no idea she suffered by their hands.
I wish she had come to me and told me so I could have dealt with this.
I had told Terizo that if Varina didn’t want the marriage that was alright.
I wanted a wife that could deal with the position, and be a partner to me in all ways.”
I give her that much, so she knows she can trust me, and that I have humanity.
“I will deal with them.”
“Thank you.”
Anya is a sweetheart, she obviously is missing her friend, but I can see the relief that she has brought the information to me, and fulfilled her promise.
"Are you going to be safe, Anya?" I ask.
"Oh, yes.
I’m going to Greece with my brother.
He’s a banker and has been given a top job with a huge bank.
We only have each other now and he would never leave me alone.
We were going to take Varina with us, and I think my brother had a crush on her if I’m being honest.
But, we’ll both move on now.”
“I’ll get someone to take you home.
Thank you for bringing this to me, and good luck in the future Anya.
Live your life knowing Varina would want you to be happy.”
“Yes, she would.
But I’ll light a candle for her every Christmas and on her birthday.
She’ll never be forgotten." Anya walks out of the office and I’m behind her shouting orders for a soldier to take her home and make sure she is safe before they leave her.
Rubbing my hands together as I walk back into my office I’m thinking, “Right, bitches, it’s time to pay for your crimes.”