Page 14 of Romeo
We all looked over at her.
I stared at her and asked, “What?”
Shrugging, she said, “We gotta play the game too, or we will lose.”
“She’s right,” my father spoke up. “That is the only way to compete.”
“Ok, but what the hell does that mean?” Dante asked. “I’m sorry but I don’t play games except for the video kind.”
“We devise a plan to combat what this V plans,” Talon interjected.
I looked over at him. “How on earth do we do that when we don’t know what she plans?”
He shrugged. “We know what she texted. At night, in a cemetery, at a tomb. So we have enough intel to make a plan. It's logical military play. Your girl is right.”
I smiled at him. She wasn't my girl yet…but she would be. I glanced over at Julianna.
She just shook her head as she tried to hide her smile.
“Si, she is right.” My father grinned at us. “It is military playanda criminal play.”
Shrugging, Julianna said, “I always thought of it as a litigation play.”
I chuckled and shook my head. “Y'all are cray-cray as the Cajuns say.”
“Well, whatever the plan is,” Glory said. “I want my dad to be safe. I don’t want his life to be put into worse jeopardy.”
Legend wrapped an arm around her shoulder to comfort her.
I tried not to stare. I could tell Gio loved this woman. My brother with a fiancée? Wow.
“So, mia cara…” My father seemed to study Julianna and asked, “Do you have a particular plan in mind?”
“I have an idea, but you all are the ones that will be um...there or taking part in the exchange so...”
“Agreed,” I stated. “No need for you to be there.” Hell no, I didn’t want her anywhere near that place when all this went down.
“First,” Julianna said. “Mr. Descalia, you need to set men up to watch the cemetery. Today.” She looked directly at my father. “Right now in fact.”
He stared at her then grabbed his cell from his vest pocket. Tapping the screen, he fired off a text.
I stood there feeling totally amazed. Never had I seen him take any kind of instruction. Maybe he took advice in, but I had never seen him follow directions and from a woman, no less. I myself, had met many power-women who were CEOs, attorneys and judges, so I never paused when they told me to do something. However, my dad wasn’t that kind of a man. He was old world about it. My Aunt Maria was perhaps the only woman that had ever won any argument with him or made him back down in any way. Being my father’s sister that could be why.
Julianna continued giving her advice, “Make sure they stay back… like have them undercover, watching the cemetery entrance.”
“Yeah, but this will all happen the day after tomorrow,” Dante said.
“Better to see if they have men watching it too,” my father explained to him as he gave Julianna a nod. “Before the trade.”
“The next part of the plan is gonna be tricky,” Julianna went on.
“Tricky?” Liv asked. “Ya think?” she added with a scoff.
“Hell, it already is,” Glory said. “An exchange of two lives at night in a cemetery. It’s risky as fuck.”
“Yeah, I know and that’s why we have to take an extra risk.” Julianna gave her a nod then looked over at my father again. “Do you…” She then glanced at Talon as well to ask, “...have anyone that could pass for Deacon?”
“Oh, wow,” Dante said. “You can’t be serious?”
