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“So, what are you putting in those eggs?” she asked.
“Got limited supplies until later,” I told her, waving toward the fridge.
She released me, and I tried to remind myself there was plenty of time to feel her arms around me, that there was no reason to feel disappointment for the disconnection.
“There are plenty of ingredients here, silly,” she told me, dragging out some veg, then gathering some spices from the pantry. “We will have to use some hot sauce since there is no cheese to kind of fill out the flavors. And there are fresh bagels!” she added, seeing the brown bag on the counter. “Perfect.”
I wasn’t sure there was anything that could dull the shine this woman had as she hummed and danced around the kitchen, chopping up vegetables, then adding them to the pan when I put the eggs in.
It was the perfect morning.
I mean, the whole safe house thing aside.
“Oh my God,” she yelped, stiffening, and whipping around from where she was placing the plates in the sink.
“What?” I asked, tensing.
“My mom!”
“Oh,” I said, giving her a smile, relieved that was it. “It’s okay. Dante and Santo were going to catch her outside of work when she goes in for the day. We figured that was slightly less alarming than them showing up to her house.
“Oh, okay. Good. Is she coming here?” she asked. And was that a slight hint of hesitation in her voice? I knew she loved her mom to fucking pieces, so I could only assume it was because she was enjoying the fuck out of playing house with me.
“If you want her to, we can bring her here. But I figured the safe house in a cabin in the woods might suit her taste more. Or even the beach house.”
“You know her well already,” she said, giving me a smile. “Thanks for thinking of my mom,” she added. “I was a little hazy from all the sex,” she admitted, tapping her temple.
“I’ll take that as a compliment. And your mom is family too, sweetheart. Of course we are going to protect her too.”
Or so I thought at the time.
It wasn’t until I got a call from Luca that I knew something was wrong.
“What’s up?” I asked, stepping a few feet away from Savannah. Not because I didn’t trust her, but because the Family had a rule about not letting the women overhear too much, never wanting them to be able to be brought up on any kind of charges.
“It’s Sunshine,” he said. My fucking stomach dropped.
“What?” I hissed, moving a few more feet away, then lowering my voice for good measure. “Is she hurt?” I asked.
“She’s missing,” Luca told me, not dancing around the fact. I always appreciated that about him.
“Missing?”
“Your brothers waited outside of her work for almost two hours. When she still hadn’t showed, and they felt it was too late for her to show and be able to make food for the day before opening, they made the decision to go to her house.”
“Fuck. Tell me there’s not a lot of blood somewhere.”
“There’s not,” he said. “But her back door was wide open, and there were signs of a struggle.”
“Goddamnit.”
“I know. I know, but you need to keep your head on straight because shit just got a whole lot more serious. I am going to go through this list to you again, and I need you to really think about these people.”
So he did.
And I still just… didn’t think it was any of them.
“Okay. What about any cases you’ve helped out on? Anywhere you played the heavy, took more of the heat?”
