Page 51 of Teddy Sinatra: Go Your Own Way
Since the doctor was at the compound monitoring Duke, Nikki immediately called Tommy Gabrini to get the doctor to the safe house.
Then Reno and Sal came back up front too. “It’s clear,” said Sal.
“He’s dead?” asked Reno.
“Not yet. Doc’s on the way,” said Nikki.
“Did he say anything?”
“He said D’s involved. We assume he means Denardo.”
“Denardo?” asked Reno. “Isn’t that who you thought was involved all along?”
Teddy nodded. “Yup.”
“Then let’s go get his ass,” said Reno. “It’s past time we hit Denardo anyway.”
“But not his full outfit,” said Nikki. “We can’t risk war until we get answers.”
“Right,” Mick agreed.
“But why would Denardo take Vivian?” Marco asked. “Why didn’t he just kill him like he thought he killed Rarsi?”
“Let’s go find out,” Teddy said. “Marco, you stay here and wait for Doc to get here.”
Marco was upset. “Come on, Pops!”
“You heard me. You stay! The capos that came with us will stand guard on the exterior just in case they try to double back.”
But Mick was looking at Potter’s grave condition and remembering how he came back and rescued him and his son. “Reno, you stay too,” Mick said. “I don’t want Potts dying alone.”
Marco frowned. “I wouldn’t do that, Sir. I wouldn’t leave him.”
“I’ll stay,” said Reno. “Let’s get these pricks and be done with this.”
Satisfied that Potts was in good hands, Mick and Teddy, and Sal and Nikki left.
Marco looked at Reno. “I wouldn’t leave him like that, Uncle Reno.”
“Start coming around more and let them get to know you better, then maybe they’ll believe it. But they don’t know your ass like that yet.”
“But it’s like they don’t trust me.”
“They don’t know you.”
“So they’re scared of me because they don’t know me?” A frustrated Marco ran his hands through his hair. The way Teddy always did, Reno noticed.
Then Marco, who always looked on the bright side, looked at Reno and smiled. “Are you scared of me, too, Uncle Reno?”
Reno frowned. “Mescared ofyou? I eat punks like you for breakfast boy, what are you talking? I was gangster before gangster was cool. Scared of you. Yeah, I’m scared of you alright. Woo I’m so scared. I got your scared right here.” He grabbed his balls. “I got it right here!” Marco laughed.
But then they looked at Potter Rarsi’s lifeless body, and the gaiety ended.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
Mick stopped his black Escalade in front of the mob diner Denardo owned. Mick, Teddy, and Sal got out. Nikki got on the seat Mick vacated and got behind the wheel. She watched through the diner’s full-front window as the three men went inside.
Inside, Jace Denardo was seated all the way down the aisle at the last table in the small, sparsely populated place. When they walked up to him, he continued to eat his massive bowl of spaghetti and ignored their presence.
