“No, you know what I know, that you are sticking your fucking nose into problems that are not yours.You need to learn to stay out of other people’s business,” Aldo said.“And who knows you’re here?”
Mia looked at her brother, and although she had never liked her brother, this was different.There was a murderous rage in his eyes.
In the next second, he held his gun up and pointed it straight at her.
She held her hands out in surrender.“Aldo, what are you doing?”Mia asked.
“A change is coming to the Colombo Mafia, and we’re not going to take any more bullshit.They’re going to learn there are new players in town.”
She shook her head.“You don’t understand.People are going to figure this out, and if you think Giovanni is just going to let you kill me, you’re mistaken.He will look for me.What are you going to do, kill me and dump my body?”
Aldo burst out laughing.“I hate to break this to you, little sis, no one knows it’s us.No one has any clue we’re the ones doing this.By the time they realize it, it will be too late, and as for you, the Colombo Mafia have enough people that hate them.You’re just going to be another in a long line of victims.”Aldo let out a tut.“It’s so sad, really.”
Mia looked at the barrel of the gun.She had no idea what was going to happen.This was a big mistake.She had hoped she was wrong, and that her brothers were not behind this.
“Just how fucking stupid do you think we are?”
Mia gasped as Giovanni suddenly entered the room.He had a gun pointed directly at Aldo.She saw the shock in Aldo’s eyes, before she turned to look at Giovanni.
“You shoot me, you’ll kill her,” Aldo said.“Maybe you and I can make a business deal right now.Trust me, when this product makes it on the market, people are going to be swarming.You can finally marry a woman you want, rather than who you’re told.”
“You have a big plan, huh?”Giovanni asked.“A plan to change the Colombo rule?”
Mia looked at Giovanni.Did he come alone?Did he have his friends?This was a big mistake on her part.
“Don’t you want to marry who you choose?”Aldo asked.“Don’t you want things to change, where our lives are not dictated by old fucks?”
Giovanni laughed.“I happen to love the woman I married.I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Mia saw the intent in Aldo’s face, but he didn’t get the chance to fire his weapon as Giovanni shot him.She closed her eyes, because even though she hated her brother, Aldo was still her brother.
However, she shouldn’t have worried, because Aldo began to scream, and Mia looked to see he’d fallen to the ground.
Aldo hadn’t been able to take a single shot, but Giovanni had fired two.One in his hand that had been holding the gun, and the second in his thigh, hindering him from escaping.
She didn’t have to wait long to find out that Giovanni, Diego, Lorenzo, and Emilio were all here, and what was more, they had brought several men of the Colombo Mafia, including her parents.
There was going to be punishment, but Giovanni pulled her into his arms and marched her out of the chaos that was about to happen.
There was no coming back for her brothers.The women had been in on it from the start.It had all been a ruse to manipulate.Her brothers had tried to play the game.
“You love me?”Mia asked.
“More than anything in the world,” Giovanni said.“How did you get here?”
She told him how she went to his office and accidentally knocked the computer, firing it up.How she recognized the surroundings from one of the pictures her brothers had sent her years ago.
“I wanted to be wrong.”
“You snuck out.”
Mia pulled the garden key from her bag and gave it to him.“After that autumn party, I always had a backup plan, in case I wanted to get away, but I don’t want to anymore.I love you, Giovanni Fabbri.You really wanted to marry me?”
“Yes.I love everything about you, and it terrifies me that I might have to share you with this little one.”
Mia burst out laughing and threw her arms around him.
Giovanni gripped her tightly as they heard the firing of bullets.
