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“Why don’t you go back downstairs and check on the man, okay?Then get your brother and spend some time in the main house with us,” Leon suggested.“I need to speak to the council first then to the police.They don’t even have to know you are there if you prefer it.”
Rowen nodded.“Thank you, Leon.”Then she went back down to the safe room.
Donavan was sitting on the sofa with an ice bag at the back of his head.
“I know,” she wailed.“I’m so sorry but I was right, dad was holding a white flag and a gun.I had to stop him and I did.”Rowen fell to her knees as she was really crying hard now.“I’m so sorry,” she whispered.
Donavan dropped the ice bag to the floor and went over to kneel in front of her.“Are you all right?”
“I’m fine but I hurt you,” she whispered in shame.“You shouldn’t be asking how I am.”
Donavan hugged her and whispered in her ear, “I got a hard head, I’ll be okay.I just didn’t want you to catch a bullet out there.”
“I know, but it was on me as head of my family to stop him.”
He held her close.“You shouldn’t have had to.”
She sighed and whispered back, “Just like you protected your family, Donavan.So, I know you get it.”
He patted her back gently.“Yes, I do.So don’t feel badly about it.We do what we have to.”
She looked up and said, “I bet you regret kissing a girl who would knock you out like that.”
Donavan laughed then winced as he reached back to his head again.“I think you’re worth it.”
She slowly shook her head at him.“Leon wants us up in the main house while they clean up the mess.Then he has to call the Council and the cops.”
Donavan nodded.“Ok, let's go get Calli and get out of the way, so he can make his calls.I have to wonder how your Uncle Marco did tonight.”
Conclusion
An hour later, Leonfinally got back to them and he shook his head as he announced, “The police were very interested in what happened here tonight.One of the men your grandfather sent after us was alive enough to tell them what happened and who set them up.He confessed to everything Gianno set up.The police were on the phone to their counterpart in New York City where they found he struck there as well.Marco survived the attack and they wanted to know how we knew it was coming.I told them we had a heads up by an email chat and they are looking into it.When this new information comes to the attention of the prison board, they will have to rethink Gianno’s release.”
“Oh, that’s gonna piss off granddad isn’t it?”Rowen shook her head.
“Indeed it will.Especially when the Council reaches out to him with a good hard slap.”Leon nodded.“He’ll be lucky to spend the rest of his life behind bars.”
