Leon smiled briefly.“Si I am still alive and Giovano’s plan to murder me in my own home failed spectacularly.He is wounded and he lives not in my dungeon, but behind bars.The Don wants him sent home to be made an example of.”
Alfredo nodded.“Fredo is being hunted right now.Knowing the Don as well as we do, he won’t stop until Fredo is caught and dragged back to face him.”
“As he deserves to be,” Lucas finally growled.“He set Calderone and I up to be ambushed and killed.Santo inferno! He shot his own son because he wouldn’t follow him.Fredo is my brother but he deserves to be dragged in chains through the streets and dumped on the Don’s lawn in shame.”
Alfredo didn’t say a word but tears ran down his weathered cheeks in shame.
Feeling compassion for his old friend, Leon reached over and patted his hand.
Alfredo gripped Leon’s hand and shook it, then he wiped the lone tear away from his cheek.“If you’ve already caught Giovano, what else is happening?”
Leon leaned back in his chair and looked at them all.“Giovano and Fredo partnered with a Mexican cartel to set up a shipping company that would carry their contraband from Boston to Europe.This cartel is one that I kicked out of Boston twelve years ago because I did not want their poison here.I protect this city from criminal enterprises setting up here.They wished to sell heroin.This is my home and I do not want that here where I live, where my family lives.But now this cartel thinks they can just walk in and take what they want.They believe that Giovano will be in the place of power, so they can just come here and set up their own agenda.Bene, they are going to find a surprise when they arrive here.”
Calderone nodded.“Si, the Don was getting his own reports of this very thing.He has, as you know, his own men living here and watching over everything that’s going on in this area.”
Leon nodded.“Si, this I know.I understand it, even as we sit here, Manuel and Trego Gondo are on their way here with a caravan of guns and men to hold those guns.They are ready and willing to break down the walls to get inside this estate and wipe everyone out so Giovano can take over.”
Lucas, Juno and Alfredo, all shook their heads.
“We repealed two attacks so far.With a little help from the Sinners MC of Boston and Sin’s Bastards of New York.”Leon smiled and nodded at Frost.“Also, from some new and valuable friends, we just discovered.”
Calderone looked over at the man his father just nodded at.“Frost...is that you?”he asked.
Frost just grinned.“Yeah Calderone, it’s lil ole me.”
Calderone scoffed as he rolled his eyes.“Little?There is nothing small about you, Frost.
Frost chuckled.“Me, Storm, Tornado and Lightning.We’re all here and your father has welcomed us into his home.”
Calderone smiled, then he stood and held out his hand.“Damn, I’m glad you guys finally came forward.”He shook hands with Storm and Frost and then looked at his father.“You won’t regret hiring these guys, Dad.They will have your back and guard it very well.”
“I believe that.”Leon’s brow rose and he asked.“But how do you know them?”
Calderone grinned and nodded.“I know them and what’s more I trust them.In fact, they helped Meena come home.They all followed her through the escape and watched her from the shadows all the way across Boston to reach this place.Yes, Oscar stayed with her but they were there too.Sort of as invisible guardians.I found them days later and they asked how she was doing.We talked a bit then and they have been watching over her and us ever since.”
Leon sat back in his chair and he thought about this story.Then he nodded.“Si, Jelly Bean told me about them the night before the first attack came in.She said they were out there watching over the mansion.That’s when I called them in and met them for the first time.Then we were attacked.Storm stood up and asked me where I wanted them to be.I told them to watch the back and they did, without question.”Shaking his head he added, “I just didn’t know they had been watching us this whole time.”
“If you had known we were out there we couldn’t have protected you in the same way we did, sir,” Frost told him.“That was the whole point.”
Leon shook his head and glanced toward the ceiling.“You have always protected us Lord and I hope you always will.”He caught Lucinda’s gaze and their eyes met.Then he made the sign of the cross and looked at his family.“Tell me how Jordy got hurt and how you got home.I got a call from the pilot and he said our plane was still in Italy.”
