Page 75 of Inherting the Mafia

Without question, I shoved Tony toward the villa. "Warn Luca."

Once Tony had taken off running toward the villa, I faced the guards and started shouting out orders. "Use the SUVs to block the gate and get ready to fight. Do not let anyone through. Defend the Sabatino family at all costs!"

"Vito, are you insane? We have to get out of here."

Carmine tried to grab my arm, but I shook him off. "I am not leaving Luca to fight this fight alone so either help me or leave."

"What if it's the Romanos coming?"

"I don't care if it's the Roman Legions," I snapped. "I'm leaving Luca and his family defenseless."

"I appreciate that," Luca said as he hurried up to us, "but we only need to hold them off for about ten minutes. Borelli's men should be here by then."

I wasn't sure that was going to be enough.

The problem here was that Tony had said trouble was coming. He didn't say what that trouble was. Until I knew, it was going to be hard to plan a defense.

"Vito!" Tony shouted as he started shooting into the air.

I had no idea what he was shooting at until a black object fell to the ground several feet away. I had just enough time to recognize it as a drone before it exploded and I was thrown back, crashing down onto the ground.

"Shoot the drones!" Tony shouted as he continued to pull the trigger on the pistol in his hand. "Shoot them down before they reach us. They are loaded with explosives."

This was new. I'd never seen someone attack with exploding drones before. Might be something to look into in the future.

While several of the guards started shooting into the air, I tried to keep track of Tony. He was all over the place. Running and jumped and hurling himself over obstacles.

At one point, I swear I heard him laugh.

When the drones stopped coming, we only had a few injured and several large craters blasted into the ground. We'd been lucky. If they tried to attack from the air again like that a second time, I didn't think we'd get the same outcome.

I walked over to Tony who was bent over with his hands on his knees, panting heavily. "Are you injured at all?" I asked as I started running my hands over him looking for any sign of blood.

Tony shook his head. "No, but I'm a little winded."

Yeah, I would be too if I'd run all over the place like he had.

"Any airport anxiety?" I asked.

"A little, but not like it was."

"Do you think this is the intermission and they will attack again?"

"That would be my bet."

"By land or by water?"

Tony squinted for a moment and looked off into the distance. I had no idea what he was looking at or even if he was looking at anything specifically.

"Both, I think," he finally replied.

I turned and searched the area until I spotted Luca, calling out him name. When he walked over to us, I said, "Tony says the next attack will come by land and water. Do you have anyone watching the beach?"

Luca blinked as he turned to look at Tony. "How do you know this?"

"Really long story that we don't have time to explain right now. We'll do it later over a drink," Tony replied. "Right now, we need to get ready for the next attack." He turned and pointed tothe high stone fence. "Can you get some sharp shooters up on that wall? Some on each side of the gate?"

Luca snapped his fingers and called over one of the guards. "Find me six of our best sharp shooters. Get them outfitted and armed and then have them man the top of the fence at the front of the estate. I also want another until of guards at the beach access to the estate."

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