Page 28 of Trina Gabrini: Bring Him Back Home to Me

“But why wouldn’t Reno just tell me all of this? Why does he have to go it alone?”

Sal hesitated.

“Why Sal?” Trina asked him.

“Reno will have to tell you that part,” he said.

“There’s more?” Gemma couldn’t believe it. It was horrific enough!

Sal nodded. “There’s more. That’s why Reno wants to go it alone.”

“What is it?” Trina asked silently. She was afraid to know. Gemma was too.

But Sal wasn’t about to tell anyway. “You’re have to ask Reno that,” he said. “I can’t go there. I’ll never go there.”

The look in Sal’s eyes told them all they needed to know. It was beyond horrific whatever it was. So horrific that Reno was willing to give up his entire family to avoid any backlash on them.

But even he knew it didn’t work that way.

His family was him by extension in the mob world and it would always be that way.

“What should we do, Sal?” Gemma asked.

“I don’t know that yet. It’s too much I still don’t know. But when Tommy gets here, we’ll make the call then. We need a strategy. But if Moose has any sense left at all, he’ll want to keep it between him and Reno. If he ropes the whole family in, Mick gets in. He can’t want Mick in.”

“But now that I think about it,” said Trina, “there’s been a lot going on.”

Sal looked at her. “Like what?”

“Like Jimmy almost getting in an accident. Like Sophia and Carmine getting in an accident. Like me being nearly run over at that restaurant by that drunk driver. And then Reno looks like he just saw a ghost and had to rush back into the restaurant because of some woman he saw. Every one of those accidents had logical explanations, so it wasn’t like we were going to put two and two together. But how could it be that many accidents over a couple days like that?”

“Every member of Reno’s family, except for Dom and Maddie, have had near-misses over the last day or two and you’re asking me a question like that?” Sal asked. “Accidents my ass! That shit sounds orchestrated.”

“And on top of all of that,” Trina continued, “Jimmy said he saw Reno cozying up with some pretty blonde at this bar he was at, and that they left together. Like they were going to get a room or something. And that was the last time anybody saw Reno until he showed up before day this morning looking all wild and crazy.”

“And that was the last time anybody saw Reno until he showed up here?”

“That was the last time,” Trina said.

“What are you thinking, Sal?”

“I’m thinking everybody needs to get on lockdown effective immediately. If she’s going for his family, then that must mean . . .”

“That she knows about what Reno’s father did to her family,” said Trina. “To her sister.”

Sal nodded. But he was thinking about that other thing Reno did to her family that Trina knew nothing about. “Right.”

“Take me to her, Sal,” Trina said with a plea in her voice.

“I told you I can’t do that.”

“Why not?”

“Because I don’t know where the fuck she is! Reno never told me he had contact with that woman. He only told me he saw her at that restaurant, but that she got away from him. That’s all he said.”

“Does he love her?” Trina asked.

Sal knew it was much worse than any love affair. But he couldn’t go there. And he figured it was better she thought it was about love. Because he knew it was about the absolute opposite. “That’s for Reno to tell you,” he said.