Mona Lisa's Room by Vonnie Davis

Author:Vonnie Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

When Alyson stepped back into the salon, Renee was feeding Olivia and Viviana was on the phone. The older woman smiled after ending the call. “I had to do some fast talking and a touch of begging, but I convinced Alex to push your reservation time back two hours. I’ll send my son a quick confirmation text.” As she told Alyson this, her fingers were texting a message to Niko. “I don’t know about the rest of you, but I could use a glass of wine to settle my nerves. I’m sure I have a nice bottle of red.” She took a few steps and then halted. “I hate his job. It’s turning my hair gray.”

“How many times has your son gone out that door leaving you to worry?”

Viviana turned, a tear sliding down her cheek. “I worry every time. A mother worries. Especially when her son is trained to be a seeker, a menace to the evils of the world…and a cold-blooded killer. I did not raise him to be that kind of person. The goodness and malevolence often war within his soul. I’ll be back in a minute.”

Alyson sat on the sofa next to Renee and ran a finger across the baby’s cheek. Olivia stopped sucking and gave a milky-wet smile. Her heart broke open into the sunshine of love.

“She’s so beautiful.” She looked into Renee’s kind face. “I hope I didn’t upset your maman.”

“She’ll be okay. Maman was always the strength of this family. We all worry about Niko.” Renee burped the baby.

Alyson leaned her head back, recalling Viviana’s words. Yes, Niko was a killer. She saw him murder an evil man who tried to run them down. Yet sometimes he displayed such tenderness.

Niko’s mother came back carrying a tray of wine and cheese. She set it on the square glass coffee table. “We’ll relax with our wine for a few minutes while Renee gets my sweet grandchild to go to sleep. Then we’ll show you the presents Niko bought you. He gave me very explicit instructions.” She extended a glass of wine to Alyson and then served Renee and herself.

“What made him go into this line of work? He told me he studied computers at Carnegie-Mellon.” She took a sip of the Merlot. “Why this dangerous occupation? Why not something safe?”

“That’s a very sad story, my dear, but one you need to know to understand what drives my son to seek out and destroy these atrocious terrorists. He was at Carnegie-Mellon sharing a dormitory room with three other young men. One of them was two years further along in his studies than my Niko. When that young man graduated, he secured a financial job in New York City in one of the twin towers.”

“No. Don’t tell me…” Visions of the crumbling towers replayed in her mind. One of the worst days in American history; one every citizen alive at that time would recall with great sadness and anger.

Viviana nodded and expelled an audible sigh. “All four young men were very close.

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