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“Come here, and I’ll tell you.” Sure, we would never talk business over the phone.
“Sure, I’m on my way now.”
“Enzo, you don’t sound good. What happened?”
“Do you have the CCTV from the club?”
“Ah, so this is about the woman. I don’t have it, but I asked the security from the club to get me a copy from that night.”
“I don’t need it anymore. I found her.”
“You don’t sound happy.”
“I’m not.” I was drowning in misery.
“Talk to me, kid.”
“Can you keep it to yourself? It would be better if Dad did not know about it, at least for now.”
“I’m his consigliere.”
“I need you to be my damn uncle, Roman. Or maybe I should talk to Catherinelle.” I knew she’d have my back even if I showed up at her house with Alexei’s head in a bag.
“Ok, fine. No word to Gino unless he needs to know.” Good enough.
“The woman is Alexei Popov’s wife.”
There was a long pause, and I could visualize Roman’s face. He was a thinker, always taking his time to analyze a situation.
“Did you know beforehand?”
“No idea,” I said back.
“Are you going to continue?”
“Yes.” No hesitation. “Look, I don’t know what’s going on, but I don’t have a good feeling. I know what you’re going to say and it’s not just my dick talking, Uncle Roman.”
“Just come here, and we can talk more, ok?”
“Thank you for having my back.”
“Keeping you out of trouble is what I do. Get your ass here.”
~~~
We walked into Roman’s office and closed the door behind us.
“Tell me, Uncle, what’s this deal with Popov about?”
“Not so fast. First tell me why you were balls deep in his wife the other night.”
“I didn’t know she was his wife; I didn’t even know she was married.” Would I have cared, though? Probably not? She was not the first beauty with a ring on her finger that ended up spending the night with me. “I saw her at the bar, and we got to talking. I don’t know what to tell you. The moment my eyes landed on her I couldn’t see anything else.”
“Shit. Ok, so you want to pursue this?”
“It’s not only about that. My gut tells me this woman is in a lot of shit.”
“She’s not your responsibility, son.”
