Chapter 78
I dangle here on my toes, trying to alleviate some of the pain. That’s when I hear commotion, followed by Luciano being dragged into the room. He’s stripped, chained and hung beside me, then the guards leave.
“Luciano, brother, wake up“, I whisper yell at him. I wrap my hands around the chains and lift my feet up off the floor, swinging to lightly kick
him.
“Come on brother, wake up!” After a few more minutes he groans and then his eyes shoot open, and he starts thrashing around.
“Hey there, he is!”
“What the fuck, where the fuck?!”
His eye’s are wide as he assesses his position and then looks at me from head to toe.
“Yeah, not the way I wanted to be tied up either, but here we are“. I wiggle my cock at him hoping to get a laugh.
*Fucking hell Luca, don’t point that thing at me“, I see a crackle of a smile. Good, fight with me. “You look like shit, Luca…”
“Yeah, not feeling too dandy either…” I mutter back.
We hang here long enough for it to be annoying and we’re out of things to talk about so we both concentrate on keeping the pressure off our wrists. When the door creaks open again we both physically stiffen.
“Ah, I thought you too might be bored, so I’ve brought in a movie“. Alexander says as his men get to work on hanging a projector screen and setting it up in front of us.
“It better not be Finding Nemo“, I joke, he spins and grabs me by the throat, not too tight but tight enough for it to piss me off.
He clicks his tongue and releases me, letting me swing a little and fuck it hurts my wrists. I find my balance back on my toes just as he turns on the screen.
“While I can’t kill you both yet, I can still offer some great torture methods that will help me feel better about having to wait. So here you go“, he presses play and the image in front of us is a young Ariana. She looks innocent and sweet. I’ve never seen her like this before, she wears pink ribbons in her long black hair and a yellow sundress with white flowers. She dances playfully around a field, reaching out to the person behind the camera as they hold hands. “Oh, Alexander this is so beautiful, thank you for bringing me here“, her soft voice says. The camera moves and Alexanders pig headed face comes into view as he smiles at her and kisses her softly.
“Turn it off!” Luciano grits out.
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“Oh good, you do enjoy it! Luckily for you, I captured many moments with my fiancée as we we’re courting. Now you two can sit here and enjoy them.”
He turns to leave the room, shutting off the lights so all we can see is the projection and then locks the door.
“Fucking hell…” I groan out as Ariana’s soft, sweet laughter fills the room. The innocent laughter that was never meant for us.
Tony
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t shitting my pants a little right now. Everything seems to be resting on my shoulders. Am I doing the right thing? Of course I am! I have to get our Don back, and Luca. Ariana needs all of us and I need them, our family needs them. I take a deep breath, and Hudson pats me on the shoulder.
“It’ll be fine, brother, it’s a solid plan.”
Dust nod at him. The plan is simple, our car is to stop well before the property, while the others drive straight to the front. We’ll sneak our way through while our guys at the front make a distraction for us. Once I’ve got Luca and Luciano then we can get the fuck out of here and leave Alexander for another day when we’re better prepared. If I’m not out in exactly ten minutes then our guys retreat, get Ariana and head for the other side of the country.
“Ready man?” Jeremy asks from the driver’s seat as he pulls off the road into the woods where we had determined from the blueprints there would be a beaten path that leads to the back.
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“Let’s do it.”
The five of us get out and I send a message to the distraction team to let them know our ETA and when exactly they should hit the front. Hudson stands a little too close to me, almost as if he’s gaging what I’m doing. As we start the short walk, I see a phone light up behind me and quickly turn around to see it illuminating Hudson’s face.
“What the fuck are you doing? Turn it off before someone see’s us!” Jeremy whisper yells at him. Just as he’s about to put it away I snatch it from him. He shouldn’t have any reason to be texting anyone right now.
“Hey! Give that back!” He tries to grab it but I sidestep him just as Jeremy comes from the front of the line and tackles him. He’s a smart one Jeremy, a lot like me, doesn’t need words to understand a situation. I look down at the screen that’s still open, it’s a message thread to an unknown number and the last one he sent says ‘Just pulled up to the dirt track now, ETA 5 minutes out‘.
“You, You’re the fucking rat!” I yell out as I stop my foot into his face on the ground.
“Fuck! How much do they know?” Jermery asks me as two of the guards start getting out zip ties from their bags to secure the filth. I scan quickly through the messages.
“Everything, they know everything…It’s a fucking trap!”
“Shit man…” he says looking over my shoulder at the phone now. “We’ve got less than three minutes until we’re supposed to be up there. What do you want to do?”
I rack my brain for a solution, but I just keep coming back to Ariana. She needs to know to get far away from here.
“You guys go back, take Hudson with you. Tell Matteo, and you guys take the jet and get her the fuck away from all of this.”
“Tony I cant…”
“You can, and you will, do your duty and protect your Donna. Go! We don’t have time!” He gives me a quick slap on the back and press our foreheads together.
“Be safe, brother.”
“Look after my girl.”
“I will.” The guys pick up Hudson and start running back down the path to the car. Meanwhile I swallow my pride, my guilt, my anxiety. Guess there’s only one thing left to do… I think to myself as I saunter up the kill towards my fate. A couple of minutes later I hear the tell tail sign of gunfire and I hit the ground running. Fuck the back door, that idea is compromised now. I’ll head straight through the front. Rounding the gardens towards the battle, I pull out my gun and start clearing my path through the men. Coming from the back of the group gave me the advantage of them not seeing me so I take down quite a few before I slip through the opened front doors.
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