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What the fuck has Nick gotten himself into now?
“Nick what the hell happened?” Vincent frowns at Nick as he sits on the furthest chair and crosses one leg over the other.
Gabe sits next to me and gives me the usual nod but I barely acknowledge him.
“Don’t worry about it,” Nick answers with a smirk. “You should see the other guy.” He chuckles.
“He still alive?” Vincent asks, straightening up in his chair. I can tell he’s furious as fuck because he doesn’t like anything that can draw attention from the cops.
Nick has a way of losing his temper.
We have the same temperament, I just know how to control myself.Mostly.Nick has no off switch. I at least have a pause button.
“Yes,” Nick confirms. “I left the motherfucker who thought he could grab my wife’s ass alive and functional enough to know not to try shit like that again.”
Although I continue to stare at him the same as Vincent, I can’t blame Nick for losing his shit if a man could be idiot enough to do that.
Vincent sighs and looks back to all of us. He’s summoned us for a reason. That’s why Nick’s here.
Me, Gabe and Vincent have a business venture of a chain of hotels in the Caribbean that’s going to bring in billions and we’re in the stages of waiting for it to hit with a massive bang next spring. We’re always here with Vincent making all the arrangements for that.
Nick’s presence today suggests trouble is around.
Vincent only tends to speak to us outside of meeting with Pa when he wants to run something past us that Pa would normally keep us out of.
“What’s up Vin?” I ask.
“Fontaines,” he answers. It’s enough. It’s enough of an answer since we’ve been waiting for something to happen with them. “Fontaines are up to something. I don’t know what the fuck it is but this meeting is to put you on your guard.”
“What happened?” Gabe asks.
“Eyes on the streets are picking up movement on their part. There was sighting of them near the office so I followed it up,” Vincent answers and sighs. “I followed it up and we were able to track Marc Fontaine to one of our restaurants.”
“Inside?” I have to ask because I doubt the man would be that crazy to go into one of our restaurants and eat.
“No. He was in a limo. Out back near the alley. A guy came out of the restaurant and brought him an envelope.”
“You saw all of that?” Nick asks him.
Vincent nods. “I did and of course I tried to look into it deeper because it’s more than suspicious as fuck but nothing’s come of it. I don’t know what to make of it other than they’re real bold to step onto our territory, even if he was in a car.”
I frown and temporarily push my anger aside. He’s right, that all sounds more than suspicious as fuck.
Last time the Fontaines came for us they wanted to use our shipping company to smuggle drugs over to China. They came at us through Tommy, Nick’s best friend, and killed him, but not before kidnapping Nick’s wife and holding her as ransom so we’d do what they wanted.
“This feels like the same shit as years ago,” I surmise.
“It does.”
That whole thing gave us the heads-up that trouble was on the horizon. It made us see just how coveted the shipping company is. We can bypass certain laws and get things done. In the past, back to my grandfather’s days when the company was just getting off the ground, a lot of smuggling took place. It was how we got so big so quickly. We don’t need to do that shit anymore but we still have certain permissions from the old days. People that turn a blind eye for us on certain things.
The shit with the Fontaines years ago was instigated by Joey Fontaine, one of the bosses for the family. It was Vincent who killed him to get back Mia. Since then we’ve been looking out for something to happen with the other Fontaine brothers. Marc, Lawrence and Sergio.
Things however, have been real quiet and it’s been almost three years now.
“What are we going to do?” Nick asks.
“Nothing,” Vincent answers. “You three will do nothing until you need to. What I want is that you come to me if you see anything suspicious. The fact that they were at the office and the restaurant means they could have been going there a while. I don’t know. It just looks like shit brewing and I want everyone on the alert. Especially since you’re at the shipping company during the day.”
