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Is it a way to stroke Elio’s ego? Sure.
But it’s also the truth.
I have a terrible, awful suspicion. If it’s true, and what I’m thinking turns out to be real, we’re going to need to be united.
We need to be family. Both Elio and Marco are going to have to suck up their egos and put their considerable brains together.
Because I think the threat, whoever it is, is using their differences against them.
Sal gives Elio a wary look, but keeps going. “After Elio took Luna, Marco lost his shit. Thought that Elio was going to just kidnap and brainwash all of us. He told Dino to keep watch over the operation while he went to talk to Elio, in person.”
I frown at that. “Wait. Marco was going to come here? To talk to Elio?”
Sal nods. “Yeah. But that was weeks ago.”
My heart crumples. “Where is he now?”
“We don’t know, Caterina,” Gia says softly.
A pit opens in my stomach, and I suck in a breath. “Okay. Is he…”
Sal shakes his head. “I don’t know. But my heart tells me he’s somewhere. That he’s going to pull through and make it, and we’re going to all laugh about this. Someday.”
I suck in a shaky breath. Marco is the center of my world. He’s part brother, part dad.
That fact that he could be…
I squeeze my eyes shut against the tears. “You said Dino ratted out Luna’s location?”
“Yeah. Gia found that one out.”
Gia doesn’t smile. “I wish it wasn’t true, Caterina.”
“How do you know it is?”
“We heard it from the motorcycle gang who did it. My informant told me that Dino leaked Luna’s location to them. Said he wasbragging in a bar that no one could find her, that she was a waste of resources.”
I frowned. That didn’t sound like Dino at all. “What?”
“I know, Caterina. I don’t know what’s going on but Dino… something’s wrong,” Sal added.
“And how did the two of you connect?” Elio’s voice could freeze over a boiling pot.
Gia rolls her eyes. “Sal was in the right place at the right time when I was making a very similar discovery.”
“And why do you both look like you came through a meat grinder on your way here?”
“The Irish really, really don’t like you right now,” Sal says dryly.
I frown.
None of this makes sense.
“So, there was an attack, orchestrated by a motorcycle gang. On Luna specifically, or Nonna Mia, or just some people that the motorcycle gang knew were important to Marco?”
“On Luna specifically. They were paid nearly three million dollars,” Gia whispers.
My eyes widen. “That’s a lot of money.”
