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“We didn’t get started without you,” Luca said. “But to get it going, since we all have work to get to. Savannah Vanjoy,” he said, flipping open a file.
“You made a file on her?” I asked, hearing the indignation in my voice. We made files on enemies. Not fucking innocents.
“We wanted to make sure it was a hit for us, not her,” Luca said, tone calm, placating. “Nothing we’ve come up with thus far, in terms of enemies, suggests that anyone is going to send some rookies to do a hit.”
“Alright,” I said, forcing myself to relax back into my seat, to not blow this out of proportion. If for no other reason than to keep everyone here from saying something to their wives, sisters, or mothers about how I reacted to everyone looking into Savannah.
“From what we can tell, she’s really never settled anywhere for long. Neither has her mother. It seemed like Savannah was pretty much raised on the road with a single mom, only stopping somewhere for a few months at a time. For the record, Vanjoy is their real last name, but the mom chose that last name when she was eighteen. When she decided to start living in a van.”
Again, that suited the hippie vibe her mother had.
“From what we can tell, Savannah and Sunshine Vanjoy have no enemies. Neither are busy on social media, mostly only posting pictures of places they visited, or sharing about some festival they were attending. But everything is all, uh, ‘love and light’ is the note here,” he said, smirking at it, making me wonder who he’s sourced the research out to.
“Could they have been moving around so much because someone was on their tail?” Lucky asked.
“It doesn’t seem likely. If that was the case, why would they finally stop and put down roots here? And it seems they’ve done that. Both Sunshine and Savannah have properties of their own. Sunshine’s is leased, though, whereas Savannah owns hers.”
“How?” I asked, surprising myself.
“We don’t know. We didn’t dig that deep. But Sunshine’s parents did die two years back. Maybe we can assume they left something to Savannah.”
But not to Sunshine?
That was interesting.
“Neither women appear to have significant others. And as far as anyone can tell, Savannah’s father has never been in the picture. It really all points to this being about us, not them. But it was worth checking into. Did you come up with a list?” Luca asked, and I rattled off the names. It was a short list. And I didn’t truly believe it was any of them.
“The thing is, they were amateurs,” I said. “Who comes in, guns blazing, that early in the morning in a public place? I worked out that morning. They could have gotten me coming out of the gym. There was no one in the lot. Or when I was at Matteo’s house, working on the car in the driveway. It makes no sense. No pro would do shit like that.”
“It’s bad luck about the cameras,” Massimo said.
“Yeah,” I agreed. “I am going to fix that. I don’t think they’re in any danger now, but I owe them a security system at least.”
“Yeah. I hear the women are planning on practically paying their rent and utilities as soon as they reopen,” Lucky said.
“The coffee is good, if you’re ever in the area,” I told them. “That was as far as I got before the guys came in.”
“How’d you not see ‘em before her?” August, my youngest brother, asked, and I exhaled hard.
“I had my back to the door.”
I saw the brows go up.
I didn’t blame them.
I would react the same way.
“Why?” Massimo asked.
“Honestly? ‘Cause I wanted to get a better look at Savannah,” I admitted, shrugging. Because the guys wouldn’t read into that the way my mom and my aunts would.
“Guess we’ve all been there,” Dante said, slapping a hand against my shoulder.
“Alright, since we are… nowhere,” Luca said, rolling his neck a little. Heavy was the head, as they say. Had to be especially true when you were ruling over a mafia Family. “I want everyone to be vigilant. No lingering outside, no standing out in the open. They might be amateurs, but even they could take out one or two of us if we aren’t paying attention.”
“Should we be worried about the women and kids? The moms? Sisters?” Lucky asked.
“I’m always worried about them,” Luca said. “But it wouldn’t hurt to gently suggest no one spends any extra time outside without one of us with them. Just until we track down these guys.”
