Page 44 of Teddy Sinatra: Go Your Own Way
Nikki didn’t ask any questions. The Teddy who always ended up five steps ahead of everybody else was back. She climbed onto the driver seat and got behind the steering wheel.
“As soon as I say go,” Teddy said, “I want you to fly because shots will be fired.”
“From where?”
“I don’t know where from, but I know Rarsi didn’t come unarmed after what happened with the twins. That’s why he had all that info. He knew he was on our radar. When I say go, you sail this boat.”
“Got it,” Nikki said nervously as she put the limo in Drive and looked at Teddy through the rearview. And then Teddy knocked once and Rarsi’s driver, thinking Teddy was knocking to get out, opened the back door.
But as soon as the driver opened the door, Teddy shot him, too, with the same tiny J-frame tranquilizer gun he used on Rarsi. The driver fell and gunfire, just as Teddy predicted, rang out. “Go!” he yelled at Nikki, but Nikki, just as Teddy ordered, had already floored it and was speeding away.
The shots were being fired from one of the windows in the second floor rooms of the abandoned strip mall.
Nikki drove in defensive, swerving motions, rocking that limo from side to side as windows were blown out and shattered, and the sounds of bullets were hitting metal everywhere, but she kept on speeding. Teddy was firing back and ducking, as Nikki was dodging every way she could, and they were making it out of that parking lot.
But as soon as they got around the front side of the abandoned location, a big Cyber truck appeared and slammed into the front of the limo, easily pushing them backwards as if they were in a toy. Mick was firing on the truck and Nikki was trying to steer away from the massive truck, but it was no use. They were pushed back so far that the limo didn’t stop its backward slide until it slammed into a concrete barrier on the backside of the parking lot. They were right back where they started from.
Then the men inside the truck jumped out with guns blazing.
But when the men jumped out and Nikki and Teddy both were firing back, help suddenly appeared as Mick’s big black Escalade jumped the curb, flew across the parking lot in that crazy speed that only Mick could manage, and hurried to the back where the gunfire could be heard. Reno, Sal, and Tommy were firing as they were coming and managed to take out the rest of the gunmen Teddy and Nikki hadn’t already iced.
But gunfire was still coming from that second floor window and Mick hopped out and threw a grenade inside that upstairs window that caused the building to explode.
Teddy and Nikki grabbed Rarsi and hopped out of the wrecked limo as the Gabrinis, their guns still drawn, gave cover and watched for any sign of anymore gunmen. Teddy and Nikki placed Rarsi in the Escalade, got in along with the Gabrinis, and Mick took off.
“Ugly-ass truck!” Mick yelled and tossed another grenade inside the cyber truck as he sped away. The truck exploded too.
But the Gabrinis were stunned. “I didn’t expect all this shit,” said Sal.
“How did you figure you could handle all this alone?” Reno asked Teddy.
“I knew I couldn’t,” Teddy admitted. “But I also knew Pop would show up.”
“How did you know that?”
“Why wouldn’t he?”
Reno shook his head. “Why wouldn’t he, he asks. Like a job this layered didn’t need to be plotted out and planned. You Sinatras are not like us Gabrinis. You use sign language and nonverbal clues and puzzles and shit to communicate. We just straight up say what it’s gonna be and get it done. Not the masters of the dramatic Sinatras. Oh no, not them,” he added and they all laughed.
But Teddy looked at his father through the rearview and Mick looked at his son. Rarsi was still unconscious, but what if it was proven that he was involved? It didn’t seem possible. But then why would he bring this much firepower with him if he wasn’t involved? Everything was possible and Teddy knew it. And then that other matter.
“He gave me a name,” Teddy said.
Mick glanced at him again. “Who?”
“Vivian.”
“Vivian?” asked Tommy Gabrini. “Marco’s friend?”
Nikki looked at Teddy and could see the distress all over his tortured face. Because that fact alone, that Vivian did jobs for Denny Bengino, who just might be behind the attempted assassination of the twins, had to have led Teddy to wonder if Marco was involved. And just whose side Marco was truly on.
“That’s the one,” he said.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Marco and Vivian were in Mick’s massive backyard playing out on the basketball courts when Teddy and Nikki made their way across the lawn.
“They’re back,” Marco said as he dropped the ball and began hurrying toward them. Vivian hurried behind him.
