Page 22 of Secret Baby for the Mafia Don

Kidnapping the firstborn child of any influential man in our line of work is as good as a declaration of war.

It was bold of the Baldini clan to seize on this opportunity as soon as it was presented to them. However, I had to admit that I felt a grudging admiration for their willingness to seize the chance when it was presented to them.

I watch the soap residue run down into the drain and think about what my next move should be. I need to get Kate and Mateo out of the Baldini home, but I know all too well how carefully they have secured the place.

It would take an army to force one’s way inside. It’s good business practice to be aware of the security that other people in my line of work keep at their properties. Baldinis pay for top-class protection both inside and outside their home.

No, it didn’t make sense to try and break into their compound with force.

I think again of Kate, who they are using as bait to get me to come to them begging and pleading for them to cut me a deal. I could try and steal her out from under their noses again, but I hate the idea of things going wrong.

The Baldinis are willing to kill for what they want, and they probably don’t need my trade routes so badly that they will be willing to spare her life if I cause them too much trouble.

I’ll need to get Kate out another way.

A sudden memory of the summer that I turned sixteen rises to the top of my mind. I had just come to Mexico for a vacation, eager to party with my brothers and cousins. I was happy for a break from the pressures of school and the various sports that my father insisted that I play. He always said that if I didn’t turn out to be a good businessman, at least I would be able to play a sport for a living.

I had been allowed to drive the Porsche to the family gathering that my parents had arranged at the private club owned by their good friends, the Aguirres. I hadn’t thought too much about Kate, the girl my parents had always told me I was going to marry one day.

It was summer and marriage felt as far away as the moon to me. I was more concerned about having fun with my cousins and brothers and seeing some hot girls in bikinis at the beach club than anything else.

I had jogged up the steps to the pool bar, looking back at my brothers and telling a dirty joke. I wasn’t looking where I was going and I ran full force into someone. I reached out with my hands to grab the slender arms of the young girl I had run into, apologizing for almost knocking her down. I looked down into the most beautiful face I had ever seen, meeting a pair of lovely, haunting, caramel-colored eyes.

“Sorry about that,” I said to the beautiful woman in my arms. I could feel the tips of her little breasts pressing into me, and my cock instantly had something to say about that.

“It’s okay, Elio,” she had said with a giggle. “I always forgive you, you know that.”

I had frowned a little. “I’m sorry, but do I know you?”

She had giggled again, the sound causing my cock to jump eagerly in response. What would it feel like to be inside her when she laughed like that?

“Elio, don’t you recognize me?” she had asked. I had just stared at her, not sure what to say. Another giggle had come out of her mouth before she said, “It’s me, Kate.”

She was no longer a ‘stupid’ awkward little kid. She was a vision, all the sudden. A gorgeous woman.

I had spent that summer chasing her, eager for her attention, while she was just as eager to withhold it to tease me.

It had taken me a month to be able to take her virginity on the beach at sunset with the sound of the waves crashing behind us as the accompaniment for her little cries of pleasure.

I had planned to go home to school and forget about her again, but that was not to be. Ever since the moment that I ran into Kate Aguirre on the steps of her family’s beach club, she had been the only woman I ever wanted.

The memory faded away, and I realized with some amusement that my dick had enjoyed the memory as much as the rest of me.

I decided I had better take care of this distraction before turning my mind to matters relating to the Baldinis. I had learned long ago that trying to make business plans with a cock stand was almost always a mistake.

Ten minutes later, I get into clean clothes and brush my teeth. I feel human enough now to start to think about what I am going to do about the Baldini family and their demands. My head still feels fuzzy, so I decide to call my brother, Gabriel.

Two heads are often better than one, and Gabriel has always been a creative thinker like me.

“Elio?” Gabriel had one of the deepest voices of anyone I had ever met. It feels good to hear the sonorous tone of his voice over the phone. “Everything all right?”

I realize it’s pretty late at night. “Did I wake you?” I ask.

He coughs out a short laugh. “Nah. I was just watching a movie. Jess always snores really loud when she’s getting close to the end of a pregnancy.”

I smile a little. My brother already has three sons, and his wife, Jess is pregnant with their fourth because she desperately wants a daughter.

I always joke with him that he should have been the eldest brother because he already has three sons, and I don’t have any kids. My chest feels tight as I realize that this isn’t the case anymore.

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