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“Threaten me all you want!” I cry out. “I no longer care. I don’t. Salvatore will never give you what you want. The evidence against you is too strong. They’ll destroy you with it, every last one of you.”
He laughs. “We’ll see about that, Maria Cipriani. I think you underestimateyour boy. He values his babygirl. He’ll come for you. I know he will and we’ll kill him, kill him dead and resume our killing spree of the whole Giordano family. We’ll take every fucking one of them out. From the youngest one to the oldest.”
“Bastard. You fucking bastard,” I cry.
“I think I’m a little more than a bastard. Your father… now he was a bastard. Didn’t think before he got in so deep with us. Greed got him where he is today. Greedy bastard your father was, couldn’t say no to money. That’s how it started.” He laughs. “We needed someone close to the Giordanos who did business with them. He was useful alright. Definitely useful, much more than we originally anticipated. Throw him all the money beyond his wildest imagination and that man would do anything. Never thought his family would be at risk until the day it happened.”
All that money Dad had. It came from them.
I’m so stupid. So very stupid.
Dad had millions. Millions he used to throw around. I thought it came from business deals with the Giordanos and his other acquisitions. I never imagined it was all dirty money he’d gotten from playing sides.
Everything fits now, the picture is complete and the puzzle solved. I see it all now before me like an actual picture I can touch.
“Such a fool,” Lawrence adds. “But one we used to do our bidding.”
“How can you be so evil?” I don’t know why I bother to ask such a thing. It’s such a foolish question to ask men like them.
“We just are. You see we can’t allow carelessness to threaten our empire. That is what those files are. A careless mistake we never saw coming. Not seventeen years ago and not now. This fucking time mattered the most because I had the Giordanos right where I wanted them. It was perfect getting Stephanou and his tribe of psychos to do what we couldn’t do.”
I shake my head. “Why couldn’t you do it? Not enough man power? I doubt that, it’s because you wouldn’t stand a chance if it came to it. so you cut off the head of the most powerful members of the family first. Weaken them.” It’s the rage inside me that’s making me talk so ballsy. I’m right though. I’m absolutely right.
Yes, I may not be a full blood Italian and know the ways ofla cosa nostrabut I know enough. The crime families around don’t trust them and the worst ones have enough power to keep themselves to themselves.
They got Stephanou by chance, but I’m sure that not even he would have helped if he didn’t have the vendetta against the Giordanos.
“Probably had to keep your noses clean to keep rubbing shoulders with Congressman Patterson,” I add and his eyes darken.
He doesn’t like that comment. It’s clear he doesn’t.
“My girl I give you credit. You seem to be smarter than you look.” Marc nods. “Your words don’t count for shit though. We do what we have to, to keep what we have and increase that wealth. Your family could never imagine wealth like that. Not yours and not those vermin Giordanos.”
“Why do you hate them so much?” It’s interest that makes me ask. I’m pretty certain the Fontaines hate everybody.
“They have something we want. Control over the seas. You see it’s one thing to own Chicago but when you have control over what goes and comes to any part of the world, you have the world at your fingertips.” He sneers and balls his fist. “That’s what they have. We know not to bite the hands that feed us. Congressman Patterson has been the man who made our wealth possible and enabled our success. He’s opened doors and covered our backs. But at the end of the day, we’re mobsters and nobody wants to lie down like a bitch and do as they’re told. The shipping company is for us. We get that and we don’t need him. Eliminate the Giordanos and we get control of a jewel.”
Christ… I just stare at him.
“You asshole…” I mutter.”
“My offer to your beloved was this – the files and the shipping company in exchange for you. I plan though to give them pieces of you, boom.” He laughs and I start to shake. “They can have your dead body. Fuckers, I’ll hand them your dead, lifeless body.”
“I hope they kill you!” I snap and he answers with the back of his hand. The impact makes me fall over and I smack my head against the hard floor.
I scream when he gets on top of me and lands a fist in my face.
Stars speckle my vision.
“That’s the other thing about a woman. She’s supposed to know when the fuck to shut up, but just like your mother, you don’t.”
Another punch and I completely blackout.
Chapter Forty-Five
Salvatore
Motherfucking bastard.
