Chapter Eleven #2
Instead of going to his sofa, she made her way to his desk and smiled, thinking about the last time he had made love to her, or fucked across his desk.
That was a fun memory. She ran her hand across the hardwood, and as she did, she knocked Giovanni’s computer mouse.
She hadn’t even realized the screen was dark.
More often than not, Giovanni turned off his computer, and Mia sat down at his desk, as the screen came into focus.
She saw there had been a recording playing, and Mia hit “record.” There was no sound, not that it needed any sound. She knew exactly what she was watching.
She recognized Isabella Ricci. Clarissa was just telling her a business deal was going down with a Luca Conti. He was a rich man. A very dangerous capo, whose previous wife had died of cancer. Luca was a nice man, but he was a much older man.
Clarissa had said the contract was bound with Isabella’s virginity. Mia was not looking at Isabella losing her virginity. She frowned as she looked at the background of the view in front of her and didn’t like what she saw. It shocked her.
She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. There was just no way this could be happening.
Leaving Giovanni’s office, Mia made her way upstairs, grabbed her cell phone from their room, and quickly rushed back down, hoping against all hope that she was wrong.
Mia pulled up the picture her brothers had sent her years ago. Holding up her cell phone, she looked between the screens and just couldn’t believe it. They were an exact match.
It was then she recalled Giovanni’s words from the night before, calling them cowards. Something about that didn’t sit well with her.
Mia felt sick. It made sense to her now. The women that had been taken were not kidnapped. They had gone willingly.
Her brothers had simply taken the women they had wanted for themselves, and this was their way of attempting to bribe them. It had to be the case.
Mia got to her feet, as she needed to go and talk to her brothers, put some sense into them. But the only way to do that was to escape. She had avoided her guards before, it wasn’t easy, but she knew exactly how to do it. It helped that the guards would be on duty.
Tapping into Giovanni’s security system, Mia looked for the best way to get out of the house undetected, and without anyone following her. She knew the exact route, all she had to do was get to her woman’s shed.
Getting to her feet, she left the house, and there was a guard on the back. She offered him a smile and let him know she was going to her woman’s shed. They knew not to follow her there.
Mia had toured the entire grounds of this home and knew the way out. Once at her shed, she let herself in and grabbed a jacket and bag.
Next was easy—making her way to the edge of the garden—she hated having to get over the gate.
It was hidden behind some overgrown bushes, but she was able to wriggle her way through them, and the gardener hadn’t known she had taken a key that gave her access to this gate.
She had taken it, made a replica, and just like that, she was out on the street.
This was not ideal, because she needed to get to her brothers fast.
Next, she had to arrange for a taxi, which was easy enough. Liana had helped her with this in the past, and after putting a call through, she made her way down the street. Within ten minutes, she was in a taxi, and she gave the driver the address of her brother’s home.
All her brothers had moved out of the family home, and their parents expected them to get different apartments.
Instead, they had opted to put their funds together and buy a small five-bedroom home, in a small private estate.
It was a wealthy estate. Mia knew the location, although she had never been there.
She hadn’t wanted to, and the truth was, her brothers hadn’t invited her.
Arriving at their home, Mia thanked the taxi driver, paid him, and watched him drive away.
She hadn’t gotten this far without having a few backup plans in her arsenal. There were many times over the years her brothers had underestimated her. She entered their property, around the back. They hadn’t even locked the kitchen door.
There were no sounds coming from the house, and Mia figured they were all upstairs, sleeping. The house was terrible. Empty pizza boxes and takeout trays. If her parents saw this place, they would have pitched a fit.
She wrinkled her nose and walked through the house. No guards, no security, nothing. Mia went from room to room, and there was only a single room that was clean. It was their office, and when Mia entered, she saw the mattress on the floor. In the corner behind the camera were several boxes.
She went to them, and that was where she found the drug she had taken to help Giovanni. She shook her head, in shock at what she was seeing. She was also a little pissed off. Her brothers must have had a death wish.
“I don’t recall inviting you here.”
Mia whirled around and looked directly at Aldo, her oldest brother.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Mia asked. “What the hell is all this?”
“You know, you were a pain in the ass when we lived with you. We didn’t owe you an explanation then, and we don’t owe you one now.”
“You think this is clever? Stealing girls? Raping them on video for the whole Colombo Mafia to see?”
Aldo burst out laughing. “You think we’re raping them?” He snorted. “Only a prissy little bitch would think we’re raping them.”
Mia couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
“Don’t you get it, they want it. They don’t want to be married to old fucks who are only interested in their pussy one time.
They’re going to bleed them and look proud as fuck for what they did.
We’ve all been to those messed-up parties.
They’re all so happy they got their woman to bleed.
” The anger and rage on Aldo’s face ... Mia had never seen him like this before.
“You know that is not how it works,” Mia said.
“No, you know what I know, that you are sticking your fucking nose into problems that are not yours. You need to learn to stay out of other people’s business,” Aldo said. “And who knows you’re here?”
Mia looked at her brother, and although she had never liked her brother, this was different. There was a murderous rage in his eyes.
In the next second, he held his gun up and pointed it straight at her.
She held her hands out in surrender. “Aldo, what are you doing?” Mia asked.
“A change is coming to the Colombo Mafia, and we’re not going to take any more bullshit. They’re going to learn there are new players in town.”
She shook her head. “You don’t understand. People are going to figure this out, and if you think Giovanni is just going to let you kill me, you’re mistaken. He will look for me. What are you going to do, kill me and dump my body?”
Aldo burst out laughing. “I hate to break this to you, little sis, no one knows it’s us.
No one has any clue we’re the ones doing this.
By the time they realize it, it will be too late, and as for you, the Colombo Mafia have enough people that hate them.
You’re just going to be another in a long line of victims.” Aldo let out a tut. “It’s so sad, really.”
Mia looked at the barrel of the gun. She had no idea what was going to happen. This was a big mistake. She had hoped she was wrong, and that her brothers were not behind this.
“Just how fucking stupid do you think we are?”
Mia gasped as Giovanni suddenly entered the room. He had a gun pointed directly at Aldo. She saw the shock in Aldo’s eyes, before she turned to look at Giovanni.
“You shoot me, you’ll kill her,” Aldo said. “Maybe you and I can make a business deal right now. Trust me, when this product makes it on the market, people are going to be swarming. You can finally marry a woman you want, rather than who you’re told.”
“You have a big plan, huh?” Giovanni asked. “A plan to change the Colombo rule?”
Mia looked at Giovanni. Did he come alone? Did he have his friends? This was a big mistake on her part.
“Don’t you want to marry who you choose?” Aldo asked. “Don’t you want things to change, where our lives are not dictated by old fucks?”
Giovanni laughed. “I happen to love the woman I married. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Mia saw the intent in Aldo’s face, but he didn’t get the chance to fire his weapon as Giovanni shot him. She closed her eyes, because even though she hated her brother, Aldo was still her brother.
However, she shouldn’t have worried, because Aldo began to scream, and Mia looked to see he’d fallen to the ground.
Aldo hadn’t been able to take a single shot, but Giovanni had fired two. One in his hand that had been holding the gun, and the second in his thigh, hindering him from escaping.
She didn’t have to wait long to find out that Giovanni, Diego, Lorenzo, and Emilio were all here, and what was more, they had brought several men of the Colombo Mafia, including her parents.
There was going to be punishment, but Giovanni pulled her into his arms and marched her out of the chaos that was about to happen.
There was no coming back for her brothers. The women had been in on it from the start. It had all been a ruse to manipulate. Her brothers had tried to play the game.
“You love me?” Mia asked.
“More than anything in the world,” Giovanni said. “How did you get here?”
She told him how she went to his office and accidentally knocked the computer, firing it up. How she recognized the surroundings from one of the pictures her brothers had sent her years ago.
“I wanted to be wrong.”
“You snuck out.”
Mia pulled the garden key from her bag and gave it to him. “After that autumn party, I always had a backup plan, in case I wanted to get away, but I don’t want to anymore. I love you, Giovanni Fabbri. You really wanted to marry me?”
“Yes. I love everything about you, and it terrifies me that I might have to share you with this little one.”
Mia burst out laughing and threw her arms around him.
Giovanni gripped her tightly as they heard the firing of bullets.
“Let’s go home.”