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Chapter Twenty-Five
SALVATORE
I lay on the beach with my beautiful wife next to me, but I can't help but to fucking keep going over the reason we are really here in my head. The plan is actually only part mine. The other part came from Gabriele himself; who he wants me to try and frame. He wants it to look ,like the Chinese is who is going to kill Baptiste. I have nothing but hatred for those men, and so it doesn't bother me at all that he could be blamed. But I have a bad feeling it isn’t going to be so simple.
I have them on vacation because I am trying to get close to Baptiste, so close that I can kill him. Then, my men in conjunction with Gabriele's will clean it up, and it will never come back to me. hat is the plan. But I know all about the best laid plans.
I don’t trust Gabriele, not one bit, but at this point, I have no choice but to trust him. I will have to deal with him and his plans later on.
I feel her hands on me before I realize she is talking to me. "Yes,mio dolce?" I ask her sweetly, kissing her hand, but I know from the look on that gorgeous and intuitive face that I have been caught.
"It’s like you are not here," she says, another worry line creasing her brow that I hate to see there because of me. I glance over at her father and the rest of her family before standing us both up and walking her down to the water line where we can talk. I know this could anger her or send her running from me, but I can’t keep a secret from her. I have just now realized that.
"Why are we truly here?" she questions me as the tide laps at our toes. This scene should be serene, romantic even, but here I am, holding my wife’s hand on a beautiful beach, about to tell her I have to murder her father.
"Mio dolce, you have to understand that I am trying to do everything to keep you safe. And your brothers..." I trail off, unsure of how to unveil this monster inside of me so wholly. "I have been ordered to kill your father, and it is your uncle who has ordered this through Andrei's mouth," I tell her with a sigh. "I am afraid of the threat to all of us if I don’t follow through."
"I can’t believe you would bring us here to kill my father!" she says angrily, no one around is to hear her rageful whisper as her face turns read much like her own father when he is angry. I have been learning that she has inherited his temper, but there is something about it that makes her more endearing and sexier. But I swallow that thought down, there is nothing positive about this moment. "Why can't you trick Gabriele and kill him instead? We know what he has done. Or get Marcel involved, have him help get this under control," she screeches. These are things I have already thought of myself, and if I see an opening, I will take it. But I can’t get her hopes up.
"I understand why you are upset but this is more complicated than you can imagine. If you wish, I will tell Marcel, but I can’t promise he will be able to help in any way other than to make sure you have no part in this." My eyes are serious as I look at her. This is my order; that she will stay out of it. I am not losing her over this fucking clan war.
"Then, tell him now before it is too late," she pushes me. I don’t like being pushed, but if something happens to me, I don’t want the last emotion for her to see me have to be anger. So, I do what she says, pulling Marcel aside.
I tell him everything, hoping that he will understand the need to be calculating here rather than just choose the outcome we want; like Baptiste surviving.
"I don’t like this, I want you to understand, but I also get the predicament we are all in now. I will only allow this plan to go through if you promise to try to take a shot at Gabriele first. I don’t like the idea that he is making a move on us like this. It is clear that he wants power here. He will take everything from us and go after Iona nd Mariana again."
I am in agreement with that. Gabriele would be hell on Earth if he won, but for now, we are at a stalemate.
"You have to know that I am willing to die for Aria. No matter what you need to keep her safe. I need you to keep yourselves away from this until it is over; one way or another."
Marcel nods at me with a tight jaw, getting my meaning.
