Mafia Queen (The DiLustro Arrangement Book 3) by CD Reiss

Mafia Queen (The DiLustro Arrangement Book 3) by CD Reiss

Author:CD Reiss [Reiss, CD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781953520692
Publisher: Paige Press, LLC
Published: 2021-10-11T18:30:00+00:00


Santino and I walk down the grand stairway arm in arm. Men run past the front windows. The door swings open as we step onto the marble floor of the front foyer. Carmine bursts in first, then Vito, a bloody hand over his bicep.

“Jesus.” I run forward to look at Vito’s arm.

“We rooted out the roaches,” he says to Santino.

“It looks like you did something,” I complain, directing Vito to the nearest chair.

“Sent them to a hotel,” Carmine chimes in.

“It’s a motel, stunad,” Vito snaps back, then resists when I try to look at his wound. “Don’t worry about that. Just a scrape.”

“Can someone interpret for me?” I pull Vito’s hand away. A globule of blood bubbles between the shreds of his jacket. I let him cover it again.

“There were Tabonas at your zio and zia’s,” Santino says to me, then turns to Carmine. “Gone, yes?

“Dead as fuck.”

A few other guys burst in. I recognize Remo and Gennaro among them.

“Where are they then?” I ask, looking out the open door for my aunt and uncle. They’re not there.

“They wouldn’t come with us,” Vito reports. “They don’t trust nobody right now. Guglielmo’s still on the porch with a partigiani Beretta.”

“Fuck.” I’m cursing because my zio is being a pain in the ass, but also because the blood’s started to seep between Vito’s fingers. I run into the kitchen and look under the sink, praying for a first aid kit.

My prayers are answered. The white metal box is as small as a textbook. I run back to Vito.

Santino’s barking orders to his men. I only hear they are to “get down there,” and “secure the block,” before he’s outside, finishing the instructions, leaving me alone with Vito.

I take out the scissors.

“I hope you don’t like this jacket too much.” I’m cutting it before he confirms I can.

The bullet grazed the muscle and left on the other side, missing the cephalic vein. Thank God it isn’t inside him. I have no idea how to remove it.

“Is this the only injury?” I ask.

“Yeah.” He cringes when I lift his arm to check his side.

“My uncle always said one day he’d need that Beretta,” I say to distract him, stuffing more gauze under his hand. “It’s been in the basement since forever. Pressure.”

“It works like new.”

“I’m sure it does.”

“He didn’t want to hurt nobody.”

I scoff. Maybe he didn’t. He’s an uncle by marriage. But Zia Madeline is my father’s sister. She probably wants blood, and I wouldn’t blame her.

My thoughts are interrupted when Santino storms back in.

“Get back down there and finish the job, Vito.”

“He isn’t going anywhere,” I say distractedly.

“They ain’t coming with me,” Vito protests. “Two days ago, they opened the door for the neighbor, and Joey and Willie Tabona busted into the house. They been eating their food and watching their TV since.”

“Until today,” Santino sneers.

“Good thing Carmine and I came slow. Joey and Willie came out to check us over, and the Beretta started popping from upstairs. Gave us a moment to take them down…but now? That door don’t open.



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