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“I love you too. Be safe.”
He hung up and I stared at the phone, chewing my lip. I couldn’t wait for this day to be over.
“Liv! She’s gone!” Elle came running out into the lobby with panic.
“What? Who?”
“Mamma! She said she wanted to use the bathroom. I just went in and she climbed out the freaking window!” She screamed as she bolted to the front door. Cami and I raced out after her.
“She took the wedding car! It’s gone!” Elle gripped her hair in her hands as she looked down the driveway. Angelo came running out towards us.
“Olivia. Is there a problem?” Angelo asked.
“Cecilia. She has gone.”
He turned his back to us, pulling out his mobile and speaking aggressively in Italian. When he got off, he turned back to me. “She is with Nik and has taken the wedding car. She has asked to go to the Leone mansion.”
Shit. I pulled out my phone and started to frantically type out a text to Gio, warning him his mother was on her way.
“What do we do now?” Elle asked.
“You need to stay here with the kids and in case she comes back. I will go with Angelo and see if we can catch up with her car. Cami, Max is on his way here so you might as well wait and come up with him.” I felt like I had to take some control of this situation as the two women stared at me wide eyed and nodded.
There was still one wedding car parked on the driveway with a driver ready to go inside. We had needed to make the whole wedding look authentic to the rest of the mafia family. Only Nik, Marco and Angelo were aware of the true plan to kill Salvatore today as they were the only men Gio truly trusted and were more loyal to him than his uncle.
Angelo nodded at me as we skipped down the steps, I grabbed the hem of my blush pink bridesmaid dress and slid into the backseat of the car as Angelo climbed in next to me.
“Leone estate,” Angelo ordered the driver as I frantically typed away on my phone to Gio to let him know the new plan. The car pulled aggressively from the gravel and made its way out of the grounds and onto the roads of Verona. Gio hadn’t replied to my messages, but I hadn’t expected him to. He would be busy killing his uncle/father most likely. My battery warning symbol flashed on my phone, and I cursed before the screen went black.
I had no idea what would be going on in Cecilia’s head right now. Was she going to try and stop Gio? Was she going to confront Sal or kill him herself? My heart was pounding with the adrenaline at this situation. Leaning forward to look between the two front seats, I peered out the front window ahead to try and spot any sign of Cecilia’s wedding car down the road in front. And that is when my heart stopped. I glanced up into the rear-view mirror and was met with the pair of bright blue eyes that haunted my nightmares under a black driver’s cap, staring straight at me.
My whole body turned to ice. Henry.
Veil of Betrayal
Giovanni
Inever knew I could possess so much control.
Sitting across from the man who killed my papi and the man I was convinced put a hit on Olivia, I grinned as he put in his cufflinks and pulled on his Tom Ford tailored cream jacket. The only thing that was keeping me calm and collected was the knowledge that by the end of today, he would no longer be breathing.
Staring up at his smug face as he checked himself out in the mirror made me want to laugh. He had no idea. No idea that he was about to face his death at my hands. He thought he had won. Everything he has ever done, was for this moment in time. He had mamma. He was marrying her. He was Boss. He had his heir. The Aianis were our allies not by choice but still. He was one step closer to destroying the Leones. Yet all of this was an illusion. He had achieved none of it.
“Still no word from Toni?” Max asked as he leaned against Sal’s bar in his gentleman’s room where we were all getting ready.
A deep frown set on Sal’s face. “No. He wouldn’t miss this. Something is not right.”
I took a slow sip of my whiskey before answering, “Do you still want to go ahead with the wedding? Or shall we try and track him down?”
Sal coughed gruffly and cleared his throat as he smoothed down his jacket. “No. We will go ahead. If he still hasn’t shown up by the end of the day, then we will start the search party.”
I smirked into my glass. Selfish. I didn’t expect any less from him. Toni had been his best mate since they were kids and his right-hand man for twenty-seven years. Yet, he has no concern for his whereabouts on his wedding day. Just more proof that Salvatore Buccini was only ever out for himself.
“I wonder what Vinny would think about all of this,” I couldn’t help but prod the beast. Sal’s dark eyes narrowed at me through his reflection in the mirror at my mention of papi.
“What do you think he would think?” Sal spun the question back on me. Clever. He was checking my loyalty.
“I think anything that makes mamma happy he would be okay with. And she is happy right?” I asked.
