COBALT (Capitol Corruption Book 2) by Linny Lawless

Author:Linny Lawless [Lawless, Linny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Linny Lawless
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

NOLAN

I carried Gina to our bed that night to taste her, touch her and bury myself deep inside her. I held her in my arms until we fell asleep hours later. It was like a thunderstorm between us right out the gate, from the first moment I met Gina in Dane’s office. I admitted to myself just then that I wanted her ever since then. But the tense storm between us was wearing thin, but marrying Gina brought us closer. I woke up in the middle of the night to find Gina downstairs staring out the bay window at the pool and hugging herself in the dark. When she revealed to me that the Caruso men had raped her, I felt the temperature rise in my blood coursing through my veins. Just imagining them even touching her at all was enough justification to put three bullets in the heads of both father and son.

Gina held that terrible secret bottled up inside her for so long, and never told Dane. She kept the secret from Dane for fear of losing him. He was her only family. I didn’t know much about their parents, only that their mother, Janice Neri, was killed when Gina was very young. A stray bullet that was meant for their father struck their mother instead. Their father – Marco Neri of Italian descent, his family was from the city of Milan. He ruled over his corrupt and organized empire in Jersey, New York, and Chicago. The feds, most of them in the pockets of the other mob bosses, slapped charges on Marco from RICO to Tax evasion. He wasn’t going to step into any courtroom alive. The feds let Marco’s rivals get to him and do the dirty deed. Men surrounded Marco’s estate in upscale Linwood, New Jersey and slaughtered him, with enough guns and ammo it looked like a battle zone in the Middle East. Thankfully, Dane and Gina were not there when it happened.

Dane was the heir to all of Marco’s businesses. Dane only kept some of the men loyal to his father. The others that had betrayed him, or ratted him to the Feds were killed.

I called Dane the next day wanting names from the list of numbers he had from Rebecca’s phone. I wanted to do some digging in the DC area while Dane would flush anything out up in Jersey.

One number that Dane gave me with a 410 area-code was Julien Ward, the CFO and part of the Executive Staff for the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Commission. He was an older man in his late fifties, married with grown kids in college, attending Penn State and one at Harvard. He was as crooked and as rich as they came in the DC Metro area. I’d seen Jules – as everyone calls him - at business functions, rubbing shoulders with powerful players in the casino business.

I drove up to Baltimore, taking Brody along for the ride. The man dressed in a security guard uniform didn’t give us any lip as we entered the office building.

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