Page 49 of Teddy Sinatra: Go Your Own Way
“I’ll do the same,” Teddy said as he watched Nikki remove her bathrobe, revealing a naked body of curves, and got in bed beside him. By the time they were both laying on their sides and face to face, he was already hard.
But he knew she was still troubled. He could see it in her dramatic eyes. But Nikki, being Nikki, he thought, was more worried about others. “You’re hard on Marco, Teddy.”
“I didn’t like the way he came for you.”
“He was hurt that his friend betrayed him. And hurt people hurt people. That’s the way it is. That’s why Mick lashed out at me too. I’m a big girl, I can take it.”
Teddy knew it too. He pulled her naked body closer to his naked body.
“But you haven’t answered my question.”
“What’s the question?”
“Is it because he kicked you to the curb?”
Teddy hesitated, and then answered. “I accepted him as my son.”
“DNA proved he was your son.”
“What I mean is that I accepted him into my heart. And my family accepted him too. And he can’t call me every once in a while? Or return my calls?”
“I knew I was calling and checking on him, and he always answers. I didn’t know you were calling him too.”
“Many times,” admitted Teddy. “I was worried about him. Pop wasn’t getting bad reports about him, but he wasn’t getting good ones either. But he rarely ever returned my calls.”
“You think he’s still in the drug trade?”
Teddy shook his head. “I doubt it. Does he ship suspicious cargo oversees? Hell yeah. But I don’t think it’s drugs. I think he’s into the art forgery business.”
Nikki was surprised. “Art forgery? That sounds sophisticated.”
“It is. But that’s Marco.”
“I hear he likes older women.”
Teddy looked at her. “Who told you that?”
“He told me that. He says he’s dating an older woman.”
“How older?”
“I think he said she’s forty.”
Teddy leaned back. “Get outta here. Really?”
“That’s what he told me.”
Teddy shook his head. “He’s a different ball of wax, that’s for damn sure.”
“You don’t have a problem with it?”
“No. Not at all. I’ve had my share of older women in my day. What I have a problem with is his secrecy and lack of communication. I know we’re a new family to him, but we’re still family. We’ll remain new until he takes some effort to get more involved with us.”
But after a moment of reflecting on what kind of son he actually had, Teddy realized Nikki had stopped talking. He looked at her. And saw that anguish in her eyes. “It’s not your fault, Nicole.”
“I know that. But when I went to check on Duke I saw Uncle Sal. I asked if they found Renardo yet, but he said they haven’t. They still can’t find him. Which only confirms his involvement. Otherwise he would have been checking in. I haven’t heard from him since the ambush.”
Then she shook her head. “That’s how they were able to plant that bomb, Teddy. That’s how they were able to kill three of our men and set it up as suicides. That’s how they knew who Duke and Jackie’s security detail would be. Everybody trusted Renardo because he was in management. And my dumb behind didn’t bother to do a deep dive on him when I put him in management.”
