Page 52 of Trina Gabrini: Bring Him Back Home to Me

It was a remote control, a GPS system, and a communication device all in one.

He pulled up the GPS first and went to Google Earth. They thought they were disarming him when they removed all weapons and his phone from his person. But the flab they left alone. It felt like skin. It looked like skin. It fit like skin. To those capos who called themselves frisking him, it was a fat man’s skin.

That was why all of his guards felt comfortable enough to stay inside the house, prepare them something to eat, and play cards at the table. It was a deadly mistake.

But it wasn’t their first mistake. Because before Moose even arrived at the Gabrini compound, he had small devices that looked like regular fingernails on his fingers ready to strategically place.

First, it was the guard booth at the gate. When his limo first drove up, and as his driver was talking with the capos on duty, he casually reached out and pressed the device on the post next to the car. His driver knew to pull in as close to that post as he could, and that was exactly what he had done.

Now Moose only had to press the number 1 on the remote, and that would be the end of the guards, the post, and the booth. That was set up and ready to go.

Then, when the capos were escorting him into the guest house, he pressed device number 2 from his fingernail against the front door’s doorjamb.

And once they took him into that bedroom, he placed a far less-lethal device number 3 against the back wall of the bedroom after they locked him in.

But then he waited. And as soon as Google Earth showed Reno, Tommy, Sal, and Mick the Tick himself getting into that Escalade and driving away, he put his plan into action.

Now, it was time for him to disable all communications. That would be the first sign of trouble. And all it took was the press of his remote, which he had tied to the utilities for that compound. He pressed button number 9.

When he pressed button number 9, all phone service, wi-fi, and electricity of any kind died on the entire property.

But before any of them understood what was happening, and he could hear the capos up front complaining that the lights and internet just went out, he moved as far away from the wall as he could, and then he pressed number 3 on his remote. A sudden hole was blown into the back wall in a very small explosion. Moose hurried to that hole and ran outside and as far away from that guest house as he could get.

But after he was safely away, and just as the men were unlocking his bedroom door to find out what that small commotion was about, he pressed button number 2 and a huge commotion was set off. The entire guest house blew up with all of those capos tasked with guarding him trapped inside. Moose’s driver, who was locked in a different room, blew up too. Which didn’t bother Moose in the least.

But before that big explosion happened, Trina was antsy inside the house and felt a strong urge to smoke a cigarette. She was no smoker. But whenever she was seriously upset, and if the mood hit her just right, she would take an occasional puff. Reno would beat her ass if he knew, and that was why nobody knew. She went out back, on the patio alone, and took a few puffs.

But that was when she saw Moose Vatelli running out of the back side of the guest house. She immediately rose to her feet because she didn’t know what was happening, but she knew it was something that wasn’t supposed to be happening.

And that was when she heard the guest house explode.

Before Moose even saw her, she ran back inside yelling for everybody to get outside. She knew what Reno had done to Moose Vatelli’s family. She knew he had blown up that entire house. She was convinced that was exactly what Moose, who was loose, was about to do to their house.

“Everybody get out!” she was yelling from the top of her lungs as all of the children and everybody else, supervised by Jimmy and Dommi, were running for the front exit. “Get out of the house and get out now!”

“But what about the safe room, Ma?” Jimmy was saying.

“No!” Trina cried. “No safe room. It’s going to blow. Get out now!”

And everybody did as she ordered. They all ran out of the front of the house even as Moose was running toward the side of the house to plant his device number 4.

But before Trina even had a chance to yell for the family to get out of the house, and before the guards at the gate could run to the aid of the capos guarding their prisoner when the guest house exploded, Moose pressed button number 1 and the entire guard crew up front were blown up with the booth, the post, and even the gate itself tore apart by the impact of the explosion.

The family was running out of the front door, afraid that they were running straight to another explosion, especially after the guard station exploded, but when Trina was outside smoking and she saw Moose on the backside of the house, she wanted the family to run in the opposite direction. She wasn’t sending them right into his clutches.

Now Moose had only to get to the main house, place a device on the exterior wall, and press button number 4.

But when he saw family members running outside, he knew he had to trap some inside, and trap those in the yard right where they were.

Those still inside were Jimmy and Dommi, who was checking to make certain everybody had gotten out. When they saw that everybody was safely out, they ran out too.

But as soon as they made it onto the front porch, Moose pressed device number 4 against the front side of the house and showed his remote.

“Don’t move another step,” he yelled at Jimmy and Dom, “or I’ll blow you up just like I blew up that front guard booth and that guest house. This house is armed with an explosive device the same way too. I control it. Don’t anybody on that porch and in that front yard move another step, or I’ll press this button and all of you are dead!”

Those on the front lawn froze, and Jimmy and Dommi froze too.

“You try to shoot me,” Moose warned them, “and I’ll press this button going down. My hand is already on it. All I have to do is apply a little pressure, which it will naturally do. So don’t even try it!”