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“I wondered about that too. In fact, it’s why I’m so troubled now. I need answers.”
“So? He wouldn’t tell you or what?”
“He wanted us to meet up, so he could give me something.”
“So that’s why when I came in here, you were so panicked?”
I nodded. “I feel like I can’t get on with my life until I know the reason why.”
Staring at me, he wrapped his arms around me. “Valencia, I’m not sure you can trust him.”
I sighed and looked up at the ceiling. “I have no fear of Deacon. If he wanted to hurt me, he could have done so in the last twenty years. He claims he didn’t know that I wasn’t his sister.”
“He looked like he knew the day you arrived here.”
“He said he did not know until he met Julianna at the deposition at her law firm.”
Tito slowly shook his head. “Damn baby, my uncle has been hunting for this guy. Like with intent to kill, you know?”
“I know.”
“And how do you feel about that?”
I paused. “I think I have tried not to think about it. But I can’t hate Deacon. He was my brother for twenty years, Tito. A person can’t just turn that love for a sibling off, ya know?”
His arms tightened around me. “I suppose you can’t really. I know that if I found out that Rocky wasn’t my brother or that Francie wasn’t my sister. It wouldn’t matter.”
He only mentioned his sister once before. He said that she was presently in Italy with their grandfather. “When is your sister coming home?”
“I’m not sure. She is with my grandfather. To tell you the truth I haven’t spoken with her since her birthday. I’m a pretty shitty brother.”
I patted his cheek. “Call her soon.”
He stared at me. “I’m trying to come up with a plan to help you. You know that we are on lockdown since Deacon sent out that man to get you. That’s gonna make this extremely hard to pull off. I have never lied to my uncle or my brother. But I can’t tell them the truth either. They will want to capture Deacon.”
I let out a sigh and said, “Then I can’t see him.” I bit at my lower lip.
“Maybe later on?” Tito suggested.
I shook my head. “There is no later. He’s leaving the country.”
Tito leaned close and kissed my lips gently then pulled back to say, “I will take you. I told you I would help and I never break a promise.”
I caressed his cheek. “I can’t ask you to break the rules. You will have to tell lies and generally just piss your whole family off.”
“It’s happened before. Not the lies but the general pissing off part.” He gave me that cute grin of his.
“No…” I sat upright and tucked my knees up to my chest. “It’s too risky. You all have this huge gate entrance that is guarded and it has cameras too probably. We would get caught right away.”
“There’s another way,” Tito said.
I looked over at him. “What?”
“We have a secret way to enter and leave the estate.”
“Really?” I asked.
“We are a part of the Famiglia. We have enemies. Often, they are watching the road leading away from the Moon Estate.”
