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There was a short pause.
“Is she hurt?” he asked.
“No. She’s… hiding in the bathtub. A little stunned.”
“Okay,” he agreed. “We will figure it all out.”
With that, he hung up.
There was no one on the street, no mysterious cars parked anywhere. And I didn’t hear any sirens, like my neighbors had called the cops.
Pulling my phone up again, I dialed Dante.
If my brothers were going to hear about it, I wanted it to come from me.
“This better be good. I’m about to close the deal with this gorgeous thing,” he said, and I felt guilty for ruining his good time too.
“There was a drive-by at my house,” I told him.
“What?” he barked, and I could hear the chair scratch across the floor as he stood.
“I’m fine. Savannah is fine. But Luca is assembling guys to get here. I wanted the information to come from me. Can you tell Santo? And August, if anyone is in touch with him right now.”
“Yes. I’ll be there in twenty minutes. If that,” he added.
That handled, I moved outside, doing a tour around my house.
No one was hiding in the bushes.
It was clear.
And not five minutes after I moved back up onto my front porch, careful not to step my bare feet on any of the glass scattered about, the cars started pulling in the drive, parking on the street.
Luca was the first to make his way to me.
“You good?” he asked, grabbing my shoulder.
“Yeah. No one’s hurt,” I said.
“Is your security system up and running?” he asked.
“Yeah. If they didn’t take out the cameras, yeah,” I agreed, leading him and the family into the house, then to the feed of the cameras.
They were working. And they didn’t get taken out until the last moment.
But they didn’t catch much.
A black car.
Nondescript.
No plates.
Even the manufacturer branding was removed.
Heavy tint on the windows, so you didn’t see much, save for the muzzle flash as the bullets sailed out from that direction.
“Fuckers,” Lucky hissed as we watched it through a second time.
