His Stakes: A Dark Mafia Romance (His Obsession Book 2) by Angel Rayne

Author:Angel Rayne [Rayne, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945499609
Publisher: Everblood Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

LUCA

“You need to let that woman go. Your plan failed. She’s no use to you anymore.”

“Veda is none of your concern, padre.”

“How many times do I need to tell you. Luca? Eh? She’s a distraction—”

We’d been going round and round with this same conversation for the past hour. “She will be DEAD if she leaves my house! Or worse! I’m not throwing her out to the wolves who are constantly prowling around just waiting for their chance to take me down!” What I’d told Veda earlier was true. My family had enemies, and they were constantly looking for a weak link. Some way to break us apart. And I was quite certain, by now, word about Veda had gotten out. If anyone managed to get their hands on her…

I couldn’t even think it.

At my outburst, Luigi Morelli leaned back in the dark leather throne he used for a desk chair and leveled his steady gaze at me, but I refused to squirm beneath it like I did when I was a child. As a matter of fact, it’d been many years since I’d felt so intimidated by my father.

“She’s a weakness, Luca,” he repeated. “Just like Maria was. And look what happened then. Your relationship with her lost us thousands of dollars because you made the mistake of trusting her and her brother. At least Mario had the intelligence to see it for what it was and try to do something about it.”

I laughed, long and hard. “Are you trying to make me believe that his killing Maria was his way of trying to help me? To help the family? Is that the bullshit reason he gave you?” My amusement faded fast. “What Mario did was the act of a rat. Family or not, he should’ve been taken care of years ago.”

“He saved us from more bad business dealings with that family.”

“He went to the Feds. He went into witness protection. God only knows how much he told them about us. How was that saving this family?”

“That was just an act to throw the Mexicans off. So they would continue to trust us. Continue to trust you.”

An uneasy feeling wrapped itself around me. “What exactly are you saying?

“I’m saying that woman you claim loved you so much was taking more than her share of the deal and she was distracting you with her tits and her cunt while her men shorted us in product and still took their full share of the money.”

It was suddenly too hot in the room and my lungs couldn’t take in enough air, but I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing my reaction. “You’re lying. Maria wouldn’t have done that. This was all Mario telling you this shit as an excuse to do what he did because he knew you’d fucking believe it. Just like you always believe his bullshit.”

My father put his elbows on his desk, lacing his fingers together as his face took on an expression of fatherly concern. One I knew for a fact was nothing but a facade to get information.

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