Chapter 12 #2
Axl returns his glare at Davide who calmly walks over to the guard and places his foot on the guard’s head before pulling his knife out with the man’s eyeball still attached. With flick of his wrist he hurls the eye from his knife then sheaths it back into its holder.
“You’re welcome,” Davide tells Axl who tilts his head back.
By now the other groups have taken out the guards who were blocking their way and have joined us. Axl tells them, “Father, Felix, Adam and I are going to check upstairs. The rest of you, I want to keep guard down here and outside. I don’t want anyone to get in here.”
Lorenzo, Nolan, Luca and Matteo exit the house to secure the outside while The Corners and Davide took positions in the house. My sons and I took to the stairs with me in front. Before I could get to the top, I was stopped by a gun wielding Anjelica.
“Put the gun down and move, Anjelica.” I order aiming my gun at her.
“Why? You’ve ruined everything for me! You took my money, my lifestyle, everything!” She screams as the gun trembles in her hands.
I shake my head. “You said all of that but didn’t mention our kids. You never loved them as a mother should.”
She cackles. “Damn, those little snot nosed brats. I only had them because they were my ticket in solidifying my position in the Romano Empire, so I played the role as the trophy wife and dutiful mother. I knew if I pushed out a few babies for you I was set for life but you fucked it all up and turned them against me! You knew Andres Jr. was supposed to be the rightful heir but no you got soft and put your bastard in his place.”
“This chick is delusional.” Felix states causing Anjelica’s face to twist in anger.
“I’m delusional?! Fine, since Andres broke me, it’s only right that I do the same to all of you!
” We stare at her as if she has lost what is left of her mind.
“Do you know how it felt to be with someone who still had love in his heart for a dead woman? Can you even fathom only to be a seat filler to a dead woman while your husband called another woman’s name during making love to you? ”
She glares at me with such hate.
“Elena, Elena, Elena. I had to live in the shadows of a ghost. I could have loved you, Andres but you wouldn’t let her go.”
I continue almost feeling bad for her because what she is saying at the time Elana still filled my heart. “But imagine how elated I was to find out Giovanni was the one to take her out.”
What the hell? This can’t be true.
“Anjelica, stop with your lies.” I say.
“Oh, Andres they are not lies. Giovanni knew once you found out her husband was dead you would’ve run straight to her so he saw his opportunity to stop you when she tried to take her life.
She would’ve survived too if it wasn’t for the nurse on his payroll who carried out the deed.
The sad part of it all is that even though she was gone you still held on for her. So, fuck you and fuck that dead bitch!”
Anjelica gasps as her body is riddled with bullets from the four of us. She slumps against the railing staring at me with tears falling from her eyes as she takes her final breaths.
Axl places his hand on my wrist as I keep pulling the trigger and nothings coming out. “She’s gone, Father.”
It took me a moment to realize that she was finally gone. I lower my gun as I hang my head. “He has to die, Axl.” I whisper trying to hold back my tears.
“And he will. We do this not only for our family but we do this for mother too.” Axl says squeezing my wrist. Felix places his hand over Axl’s followed by Adam covering his.
I look at my boys. They were mine and they were the only reminders I had left of Elena.
Yes, we will do this for our family but mostly for her because she that bonds us together.
When I’m composed, I release the empty clip and replace it with a full one.
We take the final stairs then go to the left to Giovanni’s office.
Felix takes out the two guards posted up outside the door.
We take a deep breath before counting to three then swinging the door open with our guns raised.
Father sits behind his desk with Gian standing to the left of it.
Four guards stand on each side of the desk with guns in their hands.
“Andres, son I’ve been waiting on you to come visit me but I didn’t know you would bring your bastard and his brothers.” Giovanni says from behind his desk.
“This visit is long overdue, father and as I have told you before Axl is not my bastard, he is my son and so are my other sons standing here.”
“Anjelica was right about you. You have gone soft. What happened to the ruthless killer I trained who didn’t give a shit about nothing or anyone?” Giovanni sneers.
“You made me into a monster after you made me turn my back on the one person who ever loved me! I know what you did! It was you who killed Elena! How could you have been so cruel? She never did anything to you!” I seethe.
Giovanni raises his hand. “But she did do something to me, she took your focus off what was most important and that is the family! She made you weak and on top of that she and her family was beneath ours. I still to this day do not know how you could have fallen for someone who is not of our ranking. You had women of fathers with high ranks practically throwing their daughters at you and you fall in love with a girl whose family was not only poor but had nothing to bring to table. I would not tolerate you disrespecting our family like that nor disrespect me in such a manner. I did what was necessary for our family.”
“So, you’re admitting you had our mother killed?” Axl questions.
Giovanni regards Axl before saying, “You will learn in this world you will do what is necessary for you family. Your mother was a threat to mine and for that she had to be handled accordingly.”
Axl trains his gun on him causing the guards to point theirs their weapons at us, only to be put down by Felix and Adam. Giovanni and Gian begin to chuckle as the men fall.
“Casualties of war, I guess you can say.” Giovanni laughs as he holds up his hand with a devise in it.
“Do you think I haven’t planned for something like this, Andres?
I knew of all you escape routes when you were younger so I knew it was only a matter of time you would use one to gain entry into the estate.
I prayed that you would because you would bring these three with you and I could eliminate them like I did their whore of a mother.
When I press this button” He points to the yellow button on the on the devise.
“it will start a three-minute countdown that will result in this house being blown up. I’ve lived my life so if it ends tonight, I’m ready to go but once we are all dead, I have had my will rewritten leaving everything to Andres Jr., making him the true head of the Romano family. ”
Gian snickers crossing his arms over his chest with his bandaged hand on the outside.
“My men are on their way to kill you and your men if you make it out. So, your dead either way, asshole.” Gunfire can be heard from outside.
“Ah, it seems they have arrived.” Gian starts shooting as he dips down with the desk shielding him.
Giovanni drops to the floor behind the desk as we return fire.
Suddenly overhead an automated voice fills the room.
“Three-minute count down has begun.”
I couldn’t have my sons nor my friends caught inside this death trap so I yell, “Get out! Go, go, go!”
We continue exchanging fire with Gian backing out of the room. Hitting the stairs, we race down to an empty foyer. The Corners and Davide must be outside fighting Gian’s men.
Felix reaches the door first throwing it open. We haul ass out and into a scene from the OK Corral as shots ring out into the darkness. Bodies of Gian’s men litter the lawn as our people continue to lay them down.
“We gotta go!” Axl yells to them. They cover us as we make our way to the back of the house then to the opening, we came in. As we make haste to get away, Felix drops three more men who try to out gun us.
“Let’s go, Felix!” Axl shouts. Felix hits one more before diving through the opening.
He jumps to his feet and we break through the trail back to the farm.
Moments later an explosion so loud and powerful shakes the ground underneath us making us drop to the ground covering our heads.
As soon as everything settled, we resumed our trek.
When we reached the farm, we ran into the barn and jumped into the Hummer’s driving back to my estate. I don’t know if Giovanni or Gian made it out the blast but for the sake of my family, I hope their asses went up in flames with the rest of the house.