Page 56 of Cassio (Belles & Mobsters 3)

It was the wrong thing to say because Luca glared at Nico. “Don’t remind me how you forced my sister to marry you. I should take her to my island.”

Nico flipped him off. “Try to take my wife and you’ll see how fast your empire crumbles,” he threatened Luca. You could threaten Nico with chopping his cock off and he wouldn’t flinch. Give a hint of threat about taking Bianca and he was already digging your grave.

A look on my brother’s face told me he was debating whether to push Nico some more, but then he changed his mind. Unfortunately, he decided to push my buttons.

“You should listen to Bianca,” he recommended. “Maybe wait and date her for a few years. I mean, look at our sister. Do you want to do to Áine what Nico did to our sister?”

I clenched my teeth. I waited a few years already. Fuck. Everyone. Else. Áine was mine now. Her life intertwined with mine from the moment I saved her. I just never knew she’d becomethewoman for me. Maybe it was the whole reason I was meant to save her.

This whole discussion was pointless so I cut it short. Otherwise, Luca would lose his shit and Nico would beat him into the ground if my brother even hinted that she’d be better off without him. The only thing that mattered to me was that Bianca was happy and my nieces were safe. They loved Nico; he loved them.

“Were you able to get any information?” I asked Nico, steering the topic away from our sister.

He reached for a folder and handed it to me. I scanned through the folder with information.

“Cigar?” Nico offered. “Scotch?”

“No, I’m good.” I was more interested in reading the information on Áine he was able to dig up. No amount of scotch would satisfy me right now.

“I’ll take one of each,” Luca accepted. Nico poured them both a glass of scotch, then the two leaned back into the chairs. As they talked, I tuned it all out, reading information on my future wife.

“Why is she traveling to the Middle East, Asia, and Africa so frequently?” I asked nobody in particular. The company she worked for, which happened to be my company, didn’t take contracts for those geographical areas.

“I found it odd too,” Nico chimed in, his feet up on the table. “Did you know her father… well, the prime minister had a secret side gig?”

I raised my head and studied Nico’s expression. He wasn’t the joking type and this was a big piece of information.

“Go on,” I urged. “What kind of side gig?”

“It was called Eve’s Garden.” I cocked an eyebrow. The prime minister didn’t strike me as a save the planet type. “It is an organization that rescues victims of human trafficking. It must have been the reason Benito targeted the prime minister and kidnapped Áine.”

Nico had vast resources when it came to finding out things about people. When Luca and I went back after rescuing Áine, we leveled the entire place and left no witnesses.

Except the boy.He took Luca’s warning and disappeared. We found him again a few years later, but he didn’t know who Áine and her family were.

“The kidnapping happened in her father’s office building. Her guards walked her to the elevator and she took the lift alone, since her father was waiting for her on his floor. The elevator was stopped between the floors and Áine kidnapped.”

No wonder she had issues with elevators. And because of her memory wipe, she didn’t even know why.

“Is the organization still going?” Luca asked the question that mulled over in my mind.

“When the prime minister died, the organization seemingly ceased to exist.” There was abutcoming. I knew it. “But I think his daughter continued it, under a different name.” A heartbeat of silence. “There is an organization called The Rose Rescue,” he continued. “Gia has had a run in with a woman that The Rose Rescue saved. They have their own set up going - save the women, place them in secured shelters, help them get established, and when the women are ready to move on, they help them with that too.”

Nico’s proclamation sent shockwaves through me. She seemed too gentle to lead a secret organization rescuing women. On one hand, I just couldn’t see her doing something so dangerous. But on the other hand, it didn’t seem as far-fetched as it should. She was fit; obviously trained vigorously, she had too many unexplainable trips. We talked almost every day, except when shedisappeared.

As if she heard me, my phone buzzed. I glanced at it and immediately grinned like a damn fool, despite the information I just learned.

Áine:*How about some sexting? I hear it’s a thing.*

I could practically picture the mischievous glint in her eyes as she typed that text and pressed the send button.

Glancing up I caught Nico and Luca eying me. “I have to take care of this. It’s urgent.”

Luca scoffed. “It looks very urgent.”

Ignoring him, I focused on typing my message back while keeping my face expressionless.

Me:*Next time I see you, I’m going to lick your pussy until you beg me to stop.*She wanted sexting, I would deliver.

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