Leon raised his distracted gaze and thought he saw a flash in the distance.But when it didn’t happen again he just shook his head.Then from the corner of his eye, he saw another flash.Then the flash never came again.
He turned and stared at the open doorway where Jelly Bean had walked out a short time ago.Were her people keeping watch already?
He sat down at his desk and reached for his phone.
Chapter Five
At Breakfast the nextmorning....
The room remained almost silent and as Leon forced himself to eat something.
Evelyn stared at him from across the table.“Leon, you need to sleep.”
He shrugged.“I cannot yet, mia cara.This is more than the usual trouble.”
“Usual?”his daughter Meena asked.“Does this have anything to do with the fact that I cannot get ahold of Calderone?”
Evelyn looked from her to Leon.“Does it?”
“Yes, it does,” he answered her honestly.
The two women gasped.
“He is okay though.”He was telling them something he sensed.Not what he knew for a fact.“I cannot explain it all yet,” he hedged.
They knew how this went.He was a part of the mafia and often, they didn’t want to know what that was doing.
“We are still going to worry,” Evelyn told him.“So, when it is over, please tell us it is?”
He gave her a nod.
Meena glared at him.She wasn’t so easy to calm about family being safe.She coveted all the family she had.She had missed having one for most of her life.She loved her brother Calderone too much to go easy about this.“I also want to know if Willow is okay?”
He nodded.“She is safe.”He wasn’t in the mood to feel glad about anything but he admired Meena’s’ spirit, as it matched his own.He loved this girl from the moment he saw her and that wasn’t when she was a baby, he had been robbed of all that...
Three Years ago...
