Page 139 of Mafia Kings: Dario

The Turk looked at me for a long moment.

“I believe you,” he finally said. “I don’t think you would betray them, not even to save your own life.”

Then he gave me a sinister smile.

“… but I think you might betray them to save someone else’s.”

The Turk nodded to one of his men, who pulled out a gun and put the barrel against my father’s head.

“PAPA!” I screamed.

My father went white as a ghost.

“Now,” the Turk said, “you’ll take us to the passageway… or I’ll have Salvatore here blow out your father’s brains.”

“Alright – just don’t hurt him!” I cried out.

“Good girl,” the Turk said with a smile. “I knew you’d see reason.”

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And so I led them back to the secret entrance to the mansion.

I had no choice. When they marched me to their parked cars a quarter mile away, they brought Papa, too. They forced him into the front passenger seat while the Turk and I sat in the back.

The entire drive, the Turk held a gun to the back of my father’s head.

“If you cross me, you get to watch him die,” the Turk warned.

“I can lead you to the secret door, but it locks from the inside,” I said frantically. “There’s no way to get back in.”

“You just get me there. I’ll do the rest.”

I had hoped that maybe I could text Lars a warning – but the first thing they did was confiscate my cell phone.

“Don’t want you stabbing us in the back,” the Turk smirked.

Stabbing us in the back.

That’s what I would be doing to Dario, Massimo, and all the others:

I would be leading their greatest enemy right to them in the dead of night.

Ihatedmyself for doing it. I would have given almost anything tonotdo it, including my own life –

But I would not sacrifice my father.

I couldn’t.

I just prayed that God would somehow find a way to let Dario and the others know what was happening.

The one kindness the Turk allowed me was he let me hold my father’s hand through the gap in the front seats.

“I’m so sorry, Alessandra,” my father whispered.

“It’s alright, Papa,” I said through my tears.

“I always wanted to tell you… but I wanted you to be safe…”

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