She recognized Isabella Ricci.Clarissa was just telling her a business deal was going down with a Luca Conti.He was a rich man.A very dangerous capo, whose previous wife had died of cancer.Luca was a nice man, but he was a much older man.
Clarissa had said the contract was bound with Isabella’s virginity.Mia was not looking at Isabella losing her virginity.She frowned as she looked at the background of the view in front of her and didn’t like what she saw.It shocked her.
She couldn’t believe what she was seeing.There was just no way this could be happening.
Leaving Giovanni’s office, Mia made her way upstairs, grabbed her cell phone from their room, and quickly rushed back down, hoping against all hope that she was wrong.
Mia pulled up the picture her brothers had sent her years ago.Holding up her cell phone, she looked between the screens and just couldn’t believe it.They were an exact match.
It was then she recalled Giovanni’s words from the night before, calling them cowards.Something about that didn’t sit well with her.
Mia felt sick.It made sense to her now.The women that had been taken were not kidnapped.They had gone willingly.
Her brothers had simply taken the women they had wanted for themselves, and this was their way of attempting to bribe them.It had to be the case.
Mia got to her feet, as she needed to go and talk to her brothers, put some sense into them.But the only way to do that was to escape.She had avoided her guards before, it wasn’t easy, but she knew exactly how to do it.It helped that the guards would be on duty.
Tapping into Giovanni’s security system, Mia looked for the best way to get out of the house undetected, and without anyone following her.She knew the exact route, all she had to do was get to her woman’s shed.
Getting to her feet, she left the house, and there was a guard on the back.She offered him a smile and let him know she was going to her woman’s shed.They knew not to follow her there.
Mia had toured the entire grounds of this home and knew the way out.Once at her shed, she let herself in and grabbed a jacket and bag.
Next was easy—making her way to the edge of the garden—she hated having to get over the gate.It was hidden behind some overgrown bushes, but she was able to wriggle her way through them, and the gardener hadn’t known she had taken a key that gave her access to this gate.She had taken it, made a replica, and just like that, she was out on the street.
This was not ideal, because she needed to get to her brothers fast.
Next, she had to arrange for a taxi, which was easy enough.Liana had helped her with this in the past, and after putting a call through, she made her way down the street.Within ten minutes, she was in a taxi, and she gave the driver the address of her brother’s home.
All her brothers had moved out of the family home, and their parents expected them to get different apartments.Instead, they had opted to put their funds together and buy a small five-bedroom home, in a small private estate.It was a wealthy estate.Mia knew the location, although she had never been there.She hadn’t wanted to, and the truth was, her brothers hadn’t invited her.
Arriving at their home, Mia thanked the taxi driver, paid him, and watched him drive away.
She hadn’t gotten this far without having a few backup plans in her arsenal.There were many times over the years her brothers had underestimated her.She entered their property, around the back.They hadn’t even locked the kitchen door.
There were no sounds coming from the house, and Mia figured they were all upstairs, sleeping.The house was terrible.Empty pizza boxes and takeout trays.If her parents saw this place, they would have pitched a fit.
She wrinkled her nose and walked through the house.No guards, no security, nothing.Mia went from room to room, and there was only a single room that was clean.It was their office, and when Mia entered, she saw the mattress on the floor.In the corner behind the camera were several boxes.
She went to them, and that was where she found the drug she had taken to help Giovanni.She shook her head, in shock at what she was seeing.She was also a little pissed off.Her brothers must have had a death wish.
“I don’t recall inviting you here.”
Mia whirled around and looked directly at Aldo, her oldest brother.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”Mia asked.“What the hell is all this?”
“You know, you were a pain in the ass when we lived with you.We didn’t owe you an explanation then, and we don’t owe you one now.”
“You think this is clever?Stealing girls?Raping them on video for the whole Colombo Mafia to see?”
Aldo burst out laughing.“You think we’re raping them?”He snorted.“Only a prissy little bitch would think we’re raping them.”
Mia couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
“Don’t you get it, they want it.They don’t want to be married to old fucks who are only interested in their pussy one time.They’re going to bleed them and look proud as fuck for what they did.We’ve all been to those messed-up parties.They’re all so happy they got their woman to bleed.”The anger and rage on Aldo’s face ...Mia had never seen him like this before.
“You know that is not how it works,” Mia said.
