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“What the fuck?” Yannis mumbled.
I pulled the car to the curb and both of us jumped out, taking off running. I spotted the Maserati through the group of people gathered around it and I choked on air.
“Patrone…” Yannis was looking behind at me and that’s when I realized I stopped.
I started running without answering him and got stopped by a man in uniform. Luciano Morelli was the chief of Palermo police for over a decade and he and I were on a first name basis. OurCarabinierilearned a long time ago that the best way of serving the people was to work with us, not against.
“Chief, what the fuck is this?”
“DonFiori, stop.”
“My wife, she’s here somewhere.” The other man’s eyes glanced down and I did too only to see I stepped in a pool of red blood. “What the fuck happened here?”
“Shooting.” Morelli clarified. “Grazia Caputo took two bullets to the back.”
The sky above us broke and crushed down on me, and the weight was more than I could handle.
She’s fine. She’s fine. She has to be.
“Fiori. Grazia Fiori.” My voice was shaking. “Where is she?”
“Ambulance left two minutes ago.”
“And the shooter?”
“We have him in custody.”
“Let him go. Send him to me.”
There won’t be anyone left unpunished. No one on earth or hell will escape my anger.
“I’ll see what I can do,DonFiori.”
Not good enough. I turned and grabbed Morelli by the collar of his neatly pressed uniform and dragged him until our faces were inches away.
“This is not a situation where you get to make some money, Luciano. Someone hurt my wife. You will get them to me, or you won’t get to see the next sunrise. Understood?”
I felt him shiver in my hands.
“Yes.”
I let him go and found Yannis. The dread almost kneeled me when I turned to him.
“Take me to her.” I said with the last gram of strength left in me. “I need to see Grazia.”
“She was taken to the Regional Hospital. I’ll drive.”
“Yes.”
I wasn’t sure I had it in me to control a car right now, so I gave him the keys. I climbed in the passenger seat and looked straight to the car floor, trying to hang on to my sanity for long enough to make it to the hospital.
There was nothing left for me to do, but pray. I remembered every Sunday mass my father dragged me to and hoped it counted for something. If there was a God I needed him in my corner today because if the bastard dared to take Grazi away from me, I would move heaven and earth, and face him. I might be just a mortal, just a man, but for my wife, I was capable of the worst things imaginable. God himself should fear me if he wanted to take awaymy Grazi.
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The hospital was silent like a grave when I walked through the doors. They knew who I was and why I was there and every nurse and doctor in sight hid their faces away, except for one – a young man in a white coat.
“Signore Fiori.”
