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Pietro waited for my signal and I gave it to him.
“Bianchi was hired to take out Grazia. All this time we thought there was a tail on your car, but he was looking for her.”
“Who was behind it?” Gianni pushed.
“Your father’s whore.” Shock flooded the room. “Ariana Bernoulli hired him, but make no mistake, the money came from Fabiano’s off shore account.”
Giovani’s face looked like ash when he turned to Pietro. “You’d better be sure.”
“Bianchi has a paper trail. He keeps it in case anyone tries to drag him down after a job. He wasn’t supposed to kill Grazia, but leave her with a bullet wound. He was aiming for her shoulder, but she ran and he lost the clear shot.”
No one said a thing for the longest time until Giovani spoke again. “Bianchi is slippery. How did you get to him so fast?”
“The police caught him after Chiara broke his knee.”
Goliath registered Pietro’s answer and lunged forward to Chiara with flames in his eyes. “What!?”
“What?” She asked back, confused.
I recognized one of their screaming matches before it even started.
“You attacked an armed assassin!”
“He shot Grazia!”
“Are you insane? You could have been killed. Silvio Bianchi knows how to finish a fucking fight, you crazy…!”
“Don’t yell at me! You lost the right to yell at me.”
That calmed him down.
“It was stupid.”
“Hit first, think later. That’s what you taught me.”
“To protect yourself, not hunt down armed men.”
Chiara shrugged. “It worked, so it doesn’t matter.”
“Enough!” I yelled over their voices. “Giovani.”
“Yes.”
“You’re right, Grazia is your sister, so if you want to take care of Silvio Bianchi, I can give you that, as long as you and your brothers stay the fuck out of my way.”
“What do you want to do?”
“I will make youDontonight.”
Chapter 31
The night was silent. Even the sea was calmer than usual. The whole island seemed to be frozen and so was I inside. All I could think about was revenge and bloodshed and I was going to get my fix soon enough.
Giovani and I sat down and talked,CapotoCapo, man to man, husband to brother. Neither of us was going to let what happened go without getting retribution. We made a blood oath to make everyone involved pay for what they did to Grazia, so I went back on my father’s word and invited the Caputo brothers into my territory, allowing them to kill on my turf and take care of Bianchi. In return, Giovani told all his men to stand down and walk the other way when they see me walk through the gate of Fabiano’s home.
I couldn’t think about Grazia. For the first time in my life I blocked her from my mind and closed the door, because if I did – if I stopped to ask myself if she’d get to walk off that surgery table – I would crumble. The strong man I am was hanging by threads. Grazia was my glue, the one that held me together, and I couldn’t afford to think I would lose her. Nothing else could touch me, but just imagining a life where she was taken from me could kill me on the spot. Now, I had to stay focused. My girl took a bullet and I owe it to her to send it back a hundred times harder.
With my head set on just one thing, I drove to the other side of the harbor, where the Caputo mansion was towering over the streets. Grazia loved that house, I knew she did, but tonight I’d turn it from a home to a slaughterhouse and have no regrets about it.
