Page 139 of Powerful Deception

“Time to go to bed.” I say to her with a smile.

She gives me a nod and starts to detangle herself from Alessandra and Angel’s hold. When I go to pick up Angel, a hand slaps my hand away.

“What the hell?”

She gives me a stern look like I’m one of the kids. “No lifting. Your stitches can come out and your breathing isn’t back to normal.”

I roll my eyes at her. “I’m fine.”

She sounds like Evelyn.

“Nope, sorry. Got to bed, I will make sure that Angel is put in his crib and Allie is tucked in.”

I open my mouth to fight her on it, but she slaps a hand over my mouth, stopping me. “Go.”

When the actual fuck did this woman become so damn bossy?

She ordered you to kill Gallo, remember?

Damn, I may need to find more ways to bring that side of her out more often.

But for now, I comply.

“Fine.” I say, giving her a small kiss before I make my way over to my own bed

She’s right though, I’m nowhere near healed. I’m going to be out of breath walking to the bathroom for a few weeks.

Even though I rested most of the afternoon, I still get ready for bed. My body is still tired from the events of the last two days.

Fucking Gallo and his men. If the fucker wasn’t dead already. He would be.

This morning, after things quieted down from yesterday, Lorenzo came over and told me that Gallo’s men are fearful that they will be next.

They should be, they worked for the bastard, that’s not something that I’m going to easily forget.

He also told me that a few of them wanted to pledge their loyalty to me and our family.

It's interesting how when the boss dies, men start to frantically search for a new one to work under.

It happened when Falcone died, and it is happening with Gallo.

I asked Lorenzo what he thought about bringing them on. His response, burn them to a crisp, that they should have never pledged their loyalty to a rat like Gallo. His words, not mine.

Reading his text, I couldn’t help but agree.

So I gave him the green light to do exactly what he suggested.

Which is why as I get into bed, my phone goes off with a text message from Lorenzo.

LORENZO: Job is done. Damn fuckers.

Just another lesson to not fucking mess with the devil.

Arianna walks into the room and instead of answering Lorenzo, I place my phone on the side table and give my girl all the attention she warrants.

She sees me already in bed and instead of getting completely naked, she stands at the foot of them, just staring at me.

“What’s on your mind, amate?” I ask her.

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