Page 26 of The Mafia Man's Baby Deal
“Are you all right?”Lewis asked.“You look a little shaken?”
“Yeah, yeah, I’m fine.”She offered him a smile.“Dinner, you say?”
“Yes, I’ve also made one of your favorites.Chicken parmesan.”
Ella didn’t know what to do, so she took her time cleaning up the coloring books, along with the crayons.Glancing around the room, she couldn’t help but look for a weapon, but there wasn’t one.Not one she could use without him getting suspicious.All she could do was wait for her husband and hope she didn’t show Lewis how afraid she actually was.
Turning toward Lewis, she offered him a smile, and she just couldn’t believe he was going to attempt to kill her, Mateo, and Terry.He’d been great with Terry.They had even baked cookies together, so they could place them in random jars.It just didn’t make any sense to her that he suddenly wanted to kill them.
“What’s wrong?”Lewis asked.
Ella didn’t get a chance to answer as he suddenly tensed up, his eyes going wide, and then fell to the ground.She pressed her hands against her face and looked into the eyes of Steven.
The guard had thrust a knife into Lewis’s back.At first, she thought Steven had come to help, but then he held a gun aimed right at her.
“Where’s the brat?”Steven asked.
“It’s you?”
He shrugged.
“Why?”
“Simple, I was given an opportunity to make my life and my family’s life, better.You think I’m going to sit around and not take it?I’m not fucking stupid.”And then he held up the gun.“Where’s the brat?”
“I thought you and I were friends?”
“No offense, sweetheart, but our friendship is not worth several million dollars and a place at the table.”
“A place at the table.”Ella laughed.“You do realize that Mateo will kill you?He will kill all of you.”
“No, he won’t.”
She couldn’t help laughing, but it wasn’t an entertaining sound.She was in a state of shock.“Do you even know why the mafia is the way it is today?Why it doesn’t have a name?Why it has reduced members?”
He still held onto the gun and had it trained right at her.
“Because he killed them all.They took his mom away from him, and he killed them.You can kill me and everyone in this house, but you won’t get far.”
Ella looked at him and wondered what the hell she should do.She didn’t have anything to defend herself, so all she could do was run.She stared at him for what felt like the longest time, and without a second thought, she ran across the room.
The gun fired, and she didn’t know if she felt it, or if the bullets were even close to her.She kept running.
Fear raced down her spine, and she was able to get out of the main sitting room, and silently thanked Mateo for having a house with so many freaking doors.When she first moved in and explored his house, she had gotten lost with all the doors leading somewhere, but now she knew where every door led, and that was exactly where she ran to make her escape.
Running across the hallway, she couldn’t help but scream as she heard the bullet whizz past her head.She let out a scream and quickly took the stairs, hearing more bullets ring out.
Ella went straight to Terry’s room, grabbing the young girl in her arms, and running her toward one of the other bedrooms.She went to the en-suite bathroom and flicked the lock with Terry inside.She quickly ran back to the main door and locked it.
Looking around the spare bedroom, she went into the closet where there appeared to be a baseball bat.She didn’t care why in a random bedroom there was a baseball bat.Grabbing it, she moved toward the main door as she heard him advancing.
He tried the doorknob, and Ella stood there, heart pounding, feeling like she was going to throw up, holding a baseball bat.It had been a long time since she held a baseball bat.Wrapping her hands around the base, she held it tightly, and he kicked the door over and over again.He didn’t seem to stop, but the door was not giving in, even though she saw it moving beneath his onslaught.
Mateo had gotten some good doors for this house.If this was any other kind of situation, she would have been laughing, but right now she couldn’t think.All she could do was react as the door suddenly sprung open, and Ella started swinging.She knew she was hitting his flesh, but she also couldn’t stop.She had to keep hitting him, to find the strength to overpower him.She didn’t care where she hit, as long as she connected with his flesh.
At first, she thought she might actually be winning, but then he grabbed the bat as if he had a burst of strength.It was pried out of her hands, and Ella didn’t have time to react as she felt the burning pain spread across her cheek as he hit her.
