Page 2 of Romeo
“And since you seem um, unaware of the fact,” Liv spoke up. “Deacon’s and V’s mother ran the most notorious crime organization in the US.”
“Oh, no worries about that,” my father responded. “She dealt with people so dark and so lowly that even the worst parts of the famiglia wouldn’t deign to do business with them. O was well known in our realm of the world. Much feared and disliked by many. So I am very aware, Senorita Olivia, of who the woman was. You are her namesake, no?”
When my father said her name…Olivia… I suddenly realized who was in this room with us.
Three days ago, our father told us that he had finally found Gio. It had been because of this man Deacon Walker, checking into Giovanni Descalia for some unknown purpose. So he had me and Dante scour the digital database, researching most of the Walkers. Talon Walker was military with a few awards for valor and honor. The man was a total enigma as he actually did underground flash fighting as was now popular and very illegal by the way. Then I realized that this woman, Liv, was Agent Olivia Walker, an actual CIA government agent. Well trained and she had several large busts under her belt. She had worked her way up in the government queue and that had not been easy for a woman to do.
That was also where we found Deacon Walker…in her past. He had actually gone to school with Olivia. The story was that he had befriended, then betrayed her and she never knew it for years. This Deacon character was more than just a bad apple. He was rotten to the core and from the information we dug up, he was and is mentally unstable.
“I didn’t know this O,” Glory said as she stared at my father. “But Deacon has a habitual history of kidnapping peopleto make a trade with.” She shook her head as she added, “Like me.”
We all stared at Gio’s girl.
“You?” I asked her.
Nodding, she explained, “When the Louisiana Walkers caught O, Deacon had his men tranq me and I ended up as a pawn.”
“That’s what dragged us into this,” Glory’s brother Redemption explained. “They took our little sister out of the blue. Apparently, O had previously instructed her son, Deacon that if she was ever caught, he needed to take one of the Walkers to trade for her.”
“So, now they have taken Uncle Jarret,” Talon finished for him.
Redemption nodded. “They used tranq darts. They have done it before as my sister said. They somehow locate one of us and wait and then ambush our people. This V or whoever she is had a marksman aim at my dad. They took him down and snatched him, placing him into a van. They also injured several members of the Rebel Saints MC guarding him, so that they could not follow.”
Looking surprised by this part of the story, my father sat up straighter in his chair and asked, “Which Chapter of that MC?”
Everyone in the room again swung their curious gazes over at my father.
“How do you know of the Rebel Saints?” Talon asked him.
“You head the Ramton Chapter?” my father asked Talon.
Talon shook his head. “No, that would be my brother, Hawk.”
“Ok, then you must be aware of the Rebel Saints in this area,” my father said.
“Yes.” Talon nodded. “Many of them have been fighting O and Deacon alongside us.”
I knew why our dad asked this. His cousin had Rebel Saints providing security at his estate plantation, just ten miles from here. I knew some of those men very well as Dante and I had been over there three times this week alone. I was there to help with legal advice and lord knows that Alberto Mancini really needed that since his own attorney had disappeared. That was a whole other mess that our father had us involved in.
Glory looked upset now as she asked the number one question, “So what are we going to do?” She stared at her brother, Redemption as she asked this.
Looking concerned about her, Gio took her hand in his and patted it.
I watched this with total curiosity. I had never even seen Gio date when he had lived at home. How awesome was it to know he had found a girl while he had been living this whole other life? I believed I had found mine, but the girl didn’t seem to realize it yet. She was everything I wanted in a woman. She loved the law like I do. She might just be the smartest woman I had ever met. Then lastly but not leastly… she was fucking adorable with curves that did not quit.
“If you release him, we may never catch him again,” my father stated with gritted teeth.
“But we could lose Dad!” Glory exclaimed as she looked around at everyone there. “If they had taken one of you, would you refuse the exchange?”
Silence fell in the room.
I admired this Glory very much. She was a fighter and unafraid of anything, except she did look scared at this particular moment.
Her question seemed to rattle everyone.
“No, we wouldn’t,” I replied as I looked over at my father.
Looking displeased, he clasped his hands together. “I wanted this man dead. He tried to kill my son. I have never let people hurt my family. Capire? If you show weakness, you will perish. It is the legge della sopravvivenza…the law of survivaland you all know this well, I assume?” He gazed at Talon, then at Redemption and even Liv. “You all have fighting backgrounds.” He zeroed in on Talon. “Especially you.”
