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“I don’t care!” Renzo thundered. “Even with a guard on her, you guys couldn’t keep Kasen safe! Don’t give me fucking excuses!”
What Renzo didn’t knowwas that Rafael felt sick over what happened. When I had finally spoken to him, he’d been ready to put his neck onto the guillotine. However, how could I kill him for doing the same thing that I’d had? I had allowed Kasen to call the shots on her protection detail, and all Rafael had done was follow my instructions.
“We’ll get her back,” Marco stated, trying to appeasemy father-in-law.
“Yeah?” Renzo scoffed. “In what condition?”
“It doesn’t matter,” I said, not bothering to defend myself. “As long as we get her back, the rest of it can be worked out.”
Renzo’s hazel eyes reminded me so much of my wife’s eyes as they glittered with anger. “If you think that I’m going to leave her here with you after we get her back, then you better think again.”
“She’s my wife,” I reminded him through clenched teeth, doing my best to remember that he was a worried father right now. “She belongs with me.”
“No,” Renzo snapped. “She belongs with someone that can protect her, and that person is obviously not you.”
“She stays withme!” I roared, even though I had no right because Renzo wasn’t wrong. I had failed to protect the only thing in this world that mattered to me, and that was something that I was going to have to live with for the rest of my life.
“The fuck she is!” he roared back. “You’ll have to kill me first!”
“Okay, that’senough,” my father ordered, stepping in. “Let’s all calm down-”
“No one is taking my wife from me!” I shouted, letting everyone in the room know where I stood.
“Someone already has!” Renzo yelled back,and if that wasn’t something that I already knew, I’d be leveled by his words. However, I was very aware of my failure to keep my wife safe, so there wasn’t much more that Renzo could say to me about it.
“Watch yourself, Milano,” Marco warned. “I will allow your rudeness only so far. You will watch how you speak to the Sartori Underboss.”
“What are you going to do, Marco?” Renzosneered. “Kill me for speaking the truth?”
“True or not, my wife stays with me,” I said, stopping my father from challenging my father-in-law. “In fact, it’ll be overmydead body before I let you take her from me.”
Renzo’s chin lifted. “I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what Kasen says about it.”
“She has no fucking say, Renzo,” I growled.“This isn’t open for discussion.”
Twisting the knife in deeper, Renzo said, “I supposed I should just be happy if she comes back to us at all.”
“No matter what, I’m killing every single last one of them,” I vowed. “Even if I have to do it alone.”
“You know better than that,” Elio said. “Thisis a Family issue now.”
I glanced over at Aurelio, and he was leaning against the fireplace, always observing, never saying a word. Those black eyes of his lookedblank, but I knew that his mind was racing a mile a minute. I knew Aurelio well enough to know that our counterattack was probably all planned out in his head already. No matter what, the Germans were going to pay for what they did to Kasen.
“Family or not, they’re not getting away with this,” I repeated, and Renzo just snorted, unimpressed.
Justthen, Elio’s phone chimed with an incoming text. Every associate, soldier, and Capo had Elio’s number for emergencies. Only the Capos had my direct number, and even then, most of them called Aurelio first to check if their concerns were anything worth disturbing me for. Usually, Aurelio was able to take care of their issues, but I was still always in the loop.
Elio glanced down at his phone, then looked up over at me. “They’re there already. They just pulled up to the road that leads to the farmhouse.”
When Emil Schulz had finally called me back, he had given me the address to where they had Kasen, and even though an exchange was supposed to be made, I wouldn’t be surprised if Emil had left, leaving his men to handle the swap. Since things hadn’t gone down as planned, I could see him doing his best to save himself. Again, Emil Schulz was a narcissist of the highest order, and if he thought there was even the slightest chance that we’d be showing up to take them all out, he’d flee. While he had enough numbers to fight back, Renzo joining our family had given the Sartoris the advantage.
Short of having Morocco hack into government satellites, there wereno eyes on the farmhouse. After Emil had given me the address, Morocco had been able to locate its whereabouts, but with no live feed. Now, could Morocco hack into government satellites? Yes. However, by the time he would finally be able to get in undetected, the exchange would already be made, so I hadn’t seen the point.
“It’s their heads if they don’t have thatfucking camera on,” I said, warning Elio since he was in charge of the soldiers.
“They know,” he replied carefully, knowing that I wasclose to losing my temper. No matter our differences, my brother still knew me fairly well.
“The exchange should only take a couple of minutes,” Marco remarked, trying to ease the tensions threatening to boil over. “I’ll go make sure Dr. Chapman is all set up.”
