I’m shaking as I cling onto him.
“W-where’s Carlo? I need my son.”
Giancarlo comes running in, he has a huge cut on his head and his lip is bleeding.
“Mamà.” He sobs as he jumps into my arms.
I hold him tightly as I see Gianluca running into the room. He embraces both of us and I finally break down crying. We’re safe.
Gianluca
When Ares finally let me go, I ran as fast as I could to the house. When I got to the front door, they were taking four men out. But I didn’t see the one fucker that I needed to see. As I got into the house, I saw Georgíos and Diego pinning Yakov to the floor. I walked over to look at him.
“They’re mine and I will come back for them.” He spits at me.
I kick him in the face as I walk by. I follow the voices, and when I get into the room, Apollo’s in there holding Gabriela and Giancarlo. I walk over and push him aside, pulling them both into my arms. When I finally pull back to look at them, I see blood on both their faces and I see red. I start to back up and walk towards the door.
“Not now, Cugino. Take care of your wife and son. There’s time for the rest of this.” Sebastiano says to me.
It takes me a few seconds to snap out of my rage and I nod. I turn back and go to Gabriela.
“I love you both.” I say to them as I hold them. “You’re safe.”
“Papà.” Gianluca sobs as I take him from Gabriela.
We get both of them to Lucciola Memorial Hospital. Giancarlo cried more when he saw it and it kills me that his memories associated with it is because of Faith. After Jérôme examines both of them, sending them both for MRI’s to make sure nothing was going on internally. After a few hours, he comes back to tell us that they’re both okay. They’re going to be sore and have quite a few bruises. But neither of them have any broken bones or internal injuries. That is such a relief. But they want to keep them both overnight. So Jérôme gets them a private room and they’re transferred into it.
Gabriela told me everything that happened. Now I know I need to be there when they take care of Yakov. My mamá comes in with Gabriela’s and they both burst into tears at the sight of Gabriela and Giancarlo.
“Amore, I need to leave. I don’t want to, but I need to be there when they take care of Yakov.”
“It’s okay. Go. We’ll be okay. Make sure he pays for what he did to our son. Do to him what I couldn’t do.”
I kiss her and Carlo and turn to leave.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Gianluca
When I get back to the property, I head straight for the clubhouse. The basement was made into the area we use for interrogations.
“Are you sure you want to be here for this?” my fratello asks me.
I’ve never been in on any of the ‘interrogations’. That’s a part of our world that I never needed to be a part of. I helped with security, but I stayed out of the actual acts. But after this? I’ll help any of the family that needs help. I don’t care what they need.
“I need this, Sal.”
He nods and goes down with me. Yakov is chained to the wall naked and bloody. The sight makes me smile. I tell everyone in the room what he did to my woman and my boy. It enrages everyone even more. We hear a roar and I see Yakov stop squirming as a white tiger and a polar bear stroll into the room.The tiger walks up to Yakov and runs a claw down his torso, leaving a trail of blood.
“Cowards! You’re going to let an animal kill me? Fuck you.” Yakov spits out.
I laugh. If he thinks I’m going to let Georgíos kill him? He’s mistaken. If anyone’s going to kill him, it’s going to be me. We step out of the room and leave Georgíos and Apollo in the room with him.
“Ramón wants to come down and have some of his revenge on Yakov. But I thought Georgíos needed some time to play with Yakov. And Apollo asked to be there just to see Yakov piss himself.” My papà tells us.
“We can’t kill him, but we can have our revenge on him.”
“Are you really giving him back to Ivan?” I frown.
