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The thing was the guys at the door knew not to let them in from the get go.
I can’t see Stephano, Ricardo or Davide anywhere. Fuck I don’t fucking know if they’re still inside the club or if they left. They could kill someone.
I march down to the front door and see Hunter, my head of security. If he let them in I want to know why he would cross me like that.
“Hunter, Stephano was here, you let him in?” I balk. If he was sloppy he’s fired. He’s worked for me for five years but all it takes is one mistake.
“No, of course not.” He shakes his head.
Jaxon, another guard rushes out sweating. “Boss, no one has seen them, looks like they might have taken off.”
I grit my teeth and walk away, reaching for my phone again to call Vincent.
I’ll check the CCTV after I speak to him then leave.
I don’t know when I’ll be back, it’s not safe for the people here to be around me.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Mimi
Seeingdad the other night made me want to dig a little deeper into the past.
I only intended to just look around a few things here and there so I went back to grandma’s the following day.
I didn’t find anything, just a lot of what was already there, like her recipe books and journals which said nothing about William. But curiosity lured me to the internet and I wish it hadn’t.
I searched for William Russo and only added suspicion to my curiosity.
He resigned from his position the same week Mom died and hadn’t been heard from since.
I don’t know if that means anything, or if it’s just me wanting to believe something more than what happened. Me so desperate to rewrite the past and believe that mom wouldn’t kill herself.
I wanted to talk to Salvatore about it but held off because I knew he was under a lot of stress from what’s currently happening.
Just like yesterday, when he left me this morning three guards took his place and when I left to go to Grandma they followed me. They’ve been with me all day, alternating between coming inside my apartment and hanging around outside.
When Gina came by, coming to my aid, she was searched and questioned. But she also had a guard with her too. Tony. He came with her and I had to admit that in the two minutes I saw him, he showed more care for her than I ever witnessed in Mario over the seven years she’d been with him.
We would have talked about that. I would have joked about it even but tonight wasn’t the night for jokes.
I took her into my bedroom and hit her with the full story of my mother.
She currently stood as the fifth person who knew what I knew.
She’s sitting before me looking at the picture now of Mom and William and I can see she’s worried.
“Did you tell Salvatore about William? I mean him resigning office in the same week your mom died?” she asks.
I shake my head. “No… I…” I sigh. “Gina I can see that now’s not the time to burden him with something neither of us can change. It’s not like I can bring my mother back. I just want to know what happened. Her death was… it still devastates me. I found her. I can’t get that image of her out of my head.”
Blood in the pool then her body. The pool red then mom floating there like a doll, her white blond hair crimson.
Then me screaming. I screamed and I feel like sometimes I’m still that little girl screaming. I remember arms holding me back from going to her. It was Dad. He was screaming and crying too, both of us shaking. It was neighbors who heard us and came. Everything was a blur after.
It’s still a blur. Time seemed to skip to the funeral. Then a void took the place of my soul as the last bit of earth covered the coffin.
“You want closure.” Gina fills in. I nod. “Mimi, I’m not one to leap and jump to conclusions but this is… it’s something I’d want to know too. One could argue that maybe William was so distraught by her death that he resigned. They looked like they were in love and she told him she loved him.”
