He looked at Vigo, then pulled his hand away.Vigo fell as he took a deep breath.He might have been holding onto the man’s neck a little too tightly, but he did have his reasons.
“We will consider this even,” Vigo said.
Massimo nodded his head.Without another word, he headed to his car, and his father was close behind him.Putting the car into “reverse,” his men already knew they needed to follow him.Pressing his foot to the gas, he started to take directions from his father.
“How the fuck did Diego get to her?”Massimo asked.
“The pharmacy.”
“You don’t think someone is working for him?Someone close to home?”
“The only person who is close to Adelina right now is your sister, and no, I don’t think she would sell her out to the enemy,” Vincent said.“This is pure coincidence.”
“Dad, if she was going to the pharmacy and if what that says is true, you know what that means, right?”
“Yes, I do.”
He was going to be a father.Adelina was also in danger.
“I can’t let anything happen to her.”
“Nothing is going to happen to her, son.”
“Dad, you don’t fucking know that.”
“I do know Diego has no idea Isabella is able to text us.I don’t know how your sister is doing it, but she is communicating with us.Have faith in that.”
Massimo felt that rage bubbling up inside him, threatening to explode to the surface.He couldn’t control it.It was an overwhelming sense that he needed to kill.He just couldn’t handle the very thought of anything happening to Adelina.Through his mind, she changed, that smile looking at him with such warmth, and then each time he saw her.
The moment she stepped close to him and made a teasing comment, about there being drool on the floor, or that could have been the second time.He wasn’t exactly sure, as he realized they had experienced many conversations.
Being around Adelina allowed him the ability to breathe.It gave him a reason to keep fighting, and he hadn’t even realized it was missing until right this moment.Adelina was his woman, his wife, his soul, his very fucking reason for breathing, and he couldn’t imagine life without her.
“Is that what you felt with Mom?”he asked.
“You get it now.”
“Then why did you ...with that woman?”Massimo asked.
“Because, when you become a desperate man, all you can think about is how to get out.I wanted out, Massimo.I wanted the world to end, and I thought the best way of doing that was to get myself killed.I’m glad you get it now, but you will never have to face what I did.We’re going to get Adelina back.Trust me.”
His wife had won Vincent over.She had given them all a reason to fucking live, and no one was going to take that away from them.
****
“For fuck’s sake.Pieceof shit phone.”
Adelina frowned as she came to, and blinked in the darkened room.There wasn’t much light coming into the room, but as she became accustomed to the darkness, she was able to make out Isabella.
“You’re awake,” Isabella said.
“Yeah, what’s happening?”she asked.
“Bastard Diego punched you in the face, and you went down.Then you woke up in the van, passed out again, and now we’re here.It’s some kind of motel, I think.I’m not sure.We’re locked in the basement.There were other women here, but they’re gone now,” Isabella said.
“Other women?”
“Yeah, I heard one of the soldiers mention a sale,” Isabella said, wrapping her arms around her legs.“That’s not good.”
