Fortress of the Soul: Book 4 (Medici Mafia Series) by Mackenzy Fox & Dakotah Fox

Author:Mackenzy Fox & Dakotah Fox [Fox, Mackenzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

16

VALENTINA

Seeing my mother lying there on the floor, unmoving, is something that I can never erase from my memory. I could thankfully see she was conscious, and trying to move, trying to speak, but she could do neither of those things.

I called 911 before calling Marco, who came over from next door within a couple of minutes.

I kept telling Ma it was going to be okay, that help was coming. I had to believe it myself, even though the fear running through my body was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before.

I’ve never been in a situation like this in my life, and I never want to be, ever again.

As I sit next to Enzo after he came rushing over to take us to the hospital, I go through in my mind all the scenarios and all the possibilities that could be facing us. I don’t want to, but they are there all the same.

Here I was thinking my biggest problem was getting Enzo onside with our little secret and somehow breaking the news to my family. That suddenly seems so miniscule in the grand scheme of things, even though I know it’s not. But when everything you hold dear suddenly gets turned upside down and is literally standing on its head, you start to revaluate things pretty quickly.

Mom is the backbone of this family; she’s the reason we don’t all kill each other at family dinners, and she keeps us alive with the best food you’ll ever taste. She’s the one who survived so much when she was smuggled over to America illegally in a trafficking ring, that was busted wide open by my father and his men. That’s how they met.

She was strong and fierce, and he fell in love with her. I’m sure my father’s position in the Familia at that time certainly did not call for him to find a peasant girl from Italy who was to be smuggled off somewhere else as a slave.

None of it was supposed to happen, and my mother often recalled to me the story of how my father rescued her and he was her hero. It was love at first sight.

She has survived so much, through having five children and then losing her husband before I was born. I’m not even sure how she survived such a loss. But she never gave up, not ever. My mom is a born fighter, so if there’s anybody who can get through this and come out the other end, it’s her.

The doctor eventually lets us go in two at a time. Marco urges me forward with Angelo while he and the rest of my brothers, Enzo, and Bianca wait outside.

I’m relieved she has been stabilized with medication and from what the doctor said, we got her here in time. I know enough to know that these things can be life-threatening and can result in permanent damage. That’s what scares me the most, despite what he said.

Seeing her lying there with monitors and wires around her constricts at my heart.

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