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“CeCe,” Sal’s voice was soft, almost pleading.
“Don’t! Don’t you dare! You are the most vile, despicable man who has ever lived. Vinny loved you! You were his older brother. You were supposed to protect him!” Her voice broke with emotion as her body trembled. I stepped forward to pull her back from him but she shrugged me off, never taking her accusing glare off his bloody face.
“He took everything from me!” Sal snapped, his body lunging forward in his chair, which was hopeless as he was tied so tightly to it, there was no chance he could get free.
“He took nothing from you! I never belonged to you. I was never yours in the first place. You were a drunken mistake that I have regretted every day for the rest of my life,” she spat and he roared at her aggressively, spitting blood on the floor again.
“How could you ever think I could love you, Sal? You are not capable of love. You are not deserving of it. You will die knowing that no one loved you. I don’t love you and never have. Gio doesn’t love you. Everything you set out to do has failed. It was all for nothing!” She screamed in his face.
The evilest sound vibrated from his chest as he started to laugh. Soon, he was roaring like a mad man as mamma stepped back, shaking her head. I glared at him as I watched whatever he found so amusing possessing him like a demon.
“You are wrong CeCe.” He looked up at us through his half-closed eyes that had swollen from my beating. “I achieved one thing.”
My heart started thundering in my chest when his eyes locked with mine and I saw the malice lurking within them.
“How is Olivia?”
My eyebrows furrowed in confusion but my body was on high alert as soon as her name left his lips.
“What have you done, Sal?” Mamma whispered as she raised her hand to her lips.
“Love makes us weak, boy. You will thank me one day,” he chuckled, and I lunged at him. My blood boiling with a mix of fury and panic.
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?” I screamed in his face as he continued to laugh.
“Not what…who…” he gave me a bloody, toothy grin and I froze.
“Henry…” I breathed as his words hit me like a ton of bricks.
“I am sure they will be very happy together. He seems like a nice man. Fucking demented, but who isn’t? Toni messed up the homeless man hit so royally that I realised I would have to get rid of her myself. Luckily, Toni knew all about her past and tracking her stepbrother down was pretty easy.”
All the colour drained from my face and my gut twisted so much I thought I was going to throw up. It all made sense. I couldn’t find Henry because Sal already had him. He had been under his protection.
Suddenly, my watch vibrated on my wrist as a red alert came in from Angelo’s watch. I glanced up at mamma with pure panic written all over my face.
“Go! Now,” she shouted. Without a second thought, I raced from the room just as Max and Cami arrived.
“Stay with mamma! Make sure that fucker dies!” I shouted as I sprinted past.
“Where are you going? Gio?” Max shouted, but I didn’t stick around to explain. As soon as I got outside, I saw two of my SUVs on the driveway with my men waiting that had come with Max.
“Keys!” I shouted at Nik who was hovering by the open door of the driver’s seat. He threw them to me quickly before climbing into the passenger’s side as I started up the engine. I pulled off the watch and threw it in Nik’s lap as I drove like a maniac out of the Leone estate.
“Get the GPS off Angelo’s watch and put it in the satnav,” I ordered.
My hands gripped the steering wheel so hard; the whites of my knuckles were on show as I tried to take deep breaths. The satnav was taking me to the middle of nowhere. To a road that runs through the woods at the bottom of a rocky mountain. The darkness within was rising to the surface as my mind ran wild with all the sick possibilities of what could happen if I didn’t get there in time. I can’t let anything happen to her. I promised I would protect her, and I would not fail her now. I slammed my foot on the accelerator as the car revved down the empty roads towards the location. It was taking too long.
As the satnav informed me we were nearly there, my heart was in my throat when I saw nothing but a desolate road and trees that stretched for miles. I slowed down as I scanned the woodland for any sign of them.
“There!” Nik shouted, pointing half a mile down the road. As we came closer, anger took over my senses when I saw a huge body on the side of the road. Pulling over, we leapt out of the car and I gripped my hair when I saw Angelo’s dead body. The watch was still flashing on his wrist. I growled and punched the door of the SUV when I realised that I had no way of tracking Liv anymore.
“Boss! Look here. There are tyre marks on the road where he had taken off at speed.”
I jumped back in the car, winding down my window as I hung out of it to track the tyre marks on the dirt road. After a few miles, they veered off into the woodland. Following them as far as I could until we came to one of our own black cars we were using for the wedding today, abandoned in the thick forest. I turned the engine off and climbed out. There was no one insight and we would have to walk the rest of the way, but the adrenaline coursing through my veins was keeping me focused.
Would I find her?
Without question.
