Page 53 of Trina Gabrini: Bring Him Back Home to Me

While he was saying those words, the Escalade drove up outside of the property and the Gabrinis and Mick saw the destruction of the guard booth, the gate, and all of the capos that had been killed. As their hearts dropped, they jumped out of the SUV with all their guns drawn, and ran onto the property.

And that was when they saw Moose. And that was when Moose yelled for them to put their weapons down.

“Or I’ll blow up both of these black boys on this porch to the outer limits, and every single member of your families in this yard. Drop your weapons!”

They all were amazed that he could have pulled this off while in their custody, as they dropped their weapons.

Everybody was there and all of the younger people were crying and terrified.

“If we move, he’ll press that button, Daddy,” GiGi was crying to Tommy. “He’ll blow up Jimmy and Dommi.”

“It’s alright, baby,” Tommy was saying as Grace pulled GiGi closer, and held onto their children. Tommy couldn’t get to his family. Sal couldn’t get to his family. It was a horrific situation.

And Reno was beyond distraught when he saw what his actions had caused. He looked on that front porch at his two trapped sons, and in that front yard at all his trapped children, and family, and his heart sank. But as he looked closer, it sank even further.

Reno didn’t see Trina.

He saw their children, but he didn’t see their mother.

Mick noticed it too. He and Reno glanced at each other with a look in their eyes that asked the same question: Where the fuck is Tree?

Jimmy and Dommi were inwardly asking the same question. They didn’t see their mother out on the lawn either. She was the last in the house along with them. They thought she had gone out ahead of them like they told her to. But they didn’t see her in the front lawn, and they knew she wasn’t on the front porch with them. Was she trapped inside the house? Would he press that button and blow their mother to bits?

But Trina was not a stationary gal. She stayed back on purpose. Mainly to arm herself, but also to find out what Moose was up to.

When she heard Moose talking up front, she ran out of the back door. When she ran around the side of the house and could hear Moose barking orders to her family, she knew she’d made the right call. With a Glock in one hand and a Ruger in the other hand, she made her way around the side of the house where his voice was emanating from, as he told them about how he singlehandedly disabled their wi-fi and electrical circuitry with the push of a button, and how he could do so much more if they tried in any way to harm him. She didn’t know what she was going to do, but she knew she to sneak up on him. And the only way she was going to do that, was to walk very gingerly and slowly toward his back.

Reno was the first to see her. Mick, Sal, and Tommy saw her too. But they all knew better than to give it away. They looked away from her, to ensure Moose didn’t get suspicious, but they were afraid Reno couldn’t pull it off. Because they could see the fear in his eyes.

Trina was their only hope. But what if it backfired? What if he was able to press that button if she tried a sneak attack? She was too close to that house. She and his sons would be the first to go. Reno was far more on edge than any of them were. Although they all were on edge.

But when Moose was about to tell everybody why he was there and what Reno had done to his family, Trina knew she had to make her move now. She could not allow Moose Vatelli to tell their children what Reno did to his family. It would kill Reno if they ever found out.

“Did you tell them why I’m here to destroy your family, Reno? Did you tell them? Did you tell them what you did to my family, Reno?”

“You picked a war with him,” Sal said, trying to deflect Moose too. “You started it, and he finished it.”

“But that’s not what I’m talking about and you know it, Sal Luca,” Moose said. “You know what I’m talking about.”

And when Moose began saying I’m talking about that night, Trina didn’t delay. She made the decision to shoot him, not in the head, but in the wrist of the hand that held that remote. If she missed, they all were dead. But they all were going to be dead anyway, if somebody didn’t do something. And she was the only one in position to do something.

She ran up on Moose so fast that just as he was turning in her direction, she shot him in that wrist.

Everybody screamed in horror when she shot him, knowing that all he had to do was apply a little more pressure onto that button.

But he never got the chance. As soon as that bullet ripped through his wrist, his entire hand went numb, he lost total control of his hand, and that remote dropped out.

Jimmy and Dommi jumped off the side of the porch. Jimmy grabbed that remote, removed that device from the side of their house. Then he removed the battery out of that remote.

Mick and Reno ran to make certain Moose was dead. Tommy and Sal ran to their young children and their wives, comforting them.

But as they heard the sirens signifying that the police were already on their way, they realized that Moose wasn’t dead. He was still breathing, though raggedly. But Mick looked at Reno, and Reno looked at Mick. Reno wanted to be the one, but Mick wouldn’t allow it. Not with his children nearby.

So Reno knelt down and shielded Mick as Mick pressed his fingers to Moose Vatelli’s throat until he was gone. There was no way they were leaving that stone unturned.

Then Reno got up, went to Trina, looked at her with nothing but admiration and love in his eyes, and pulled her into his arms.

“You wouldn’t let him tell them,” Reno whispered to her. “You acted before he could tell my children what I had done. I will always love you for that.”