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“Thanks, man.” I raise my hand, and we bump our fists. “Couldn’t do this without you. Without you, I’d be none the wiser about what that motherfucker did.”
He smirks. “Don’t worry about it. You’ve always had my back. I’d be in a far worse situation if not for you.”
He’s talking about when I took a bullet for him when we were younger. That was the second time in my life that I’d taken a bullet to my chest.
“No worries, old friend.” I nod. “Anything else?”
“No. That's all I have for now.” He sets his shoulders back.
I glance at the envelope and cock my head toward it. “Anything important?”
He looks reserved. “Yeah, it’s just a longshot I’m working on.”
“That sounds ominous.” Like most things with him, my friend is a man of mystery. Very much like me. Except there are a lot of things he doesn’t tell me.
I’ve known him long enough to know that if I haven’t been told his secrets, those are the things he wants to keep buried deep in the earth.
Virgo opens the envelope and pulls out a document. On it is a picture of a blonde young woman I haven't seen in a long time. Her name is Olivia. She’s an Irish mafia princess.
She was also Virgo’s ex. Months before I went to prison, she and her parents disappeared. No one has a clue what happened to them.
Cillian, her brother, used to hang out with us before he and Virgo’s family became rivals. That was just before Olivia and his parents disappeared. I heard he went back to Ireland. His uncle holds the fifth seat on the Creed for their family, but he’s a reserved man.
Virgo has been looking for Olivia since the disappearance. Everyone had given up. I thought he had, too, because he hasn’t mentioned her in months.
"Didn't know you were still searching.”
“Sometimes I am. Sometimes I'm not. I got a notification of a sighting in Spain a few days ago, so I thought I'd check it out. It wasn’t her.”
To this day, he’s never told me the full story. All I know is they were off-limits because of the feud, but they were together.
But it ended days before she disappeared. All he told me was he chose his father. That’s it. I’m sure guilt has ridden his back like the devil since.
“I just want to know what happened to her,” he elaborates, looking uneasy. “I can’t accept that she’s… gone until I have proof.”
I nod, understanding. “I get it.”
He wants closure. Nobody knows more about wanting closure than me.
My problem is I’ll never have it. My nightmares still haunt me.
Virgo puts the picture back inside the envelope and seals it.
“I'm going to head up to the office and do some of the accounts,” he says.
Before I can answer, Joseph, one of my bouncers, walks up to us and says,
"Boss, you have a visitor.”
“Who?”Is it her? Did she come after all.
“A girl asking for you. Her name is Serenity."
The moment he says that, Virgo gives me a narrowed look, but the spark of excitement for hearing she came is so potent I ignore him.
"Send her up. I'll be in my room."
"Alright." Joseph nods and leaves us.
