“Some spot in Queens. Donofrio’s,” he says.

Lorenzo and I alternate worrying seems as we each utter, “FUCK!”

“Thanks, Rossi,” I inform him, and Jenkins ends the decision.

“What’s up? What’s incorrect with that restaurant?”

“That’s the place my father eats together with his consigliere, my uncle, my Zio,” I inform Jenkins with disappointment ripping by means of my physique. I get on the cellphone to name Pop.

He doesn’t hesitate to reply the cellphone both. “Did you get her but?”

“We’re on our means, Pop. When’s the final time you ate at Donofrio’s?” I ask him.

“Are you fucking severe proper now, Alessandro? Your spouse, my daughter, her life’s hanging within the steadiness, and also you’re nervous about some rooster marsala?”

“No, Pop, I have to know. The tip in regards to the hitman got here out of Donofrio’s.”

“Fuck, that’s gotta be incorrect, Alessandro,” he says with harm pouring by means of the cellphone. “I haven’t been again there for the reason that coronary heart assault. Lara gained’t let me, and I’ll be trustworthy, she scares me a bit. She’s acquired a screw free, that one. Like a canine with a bone, she gained’t surrender on getting me wholesome. I give her shit, however I fuckin’ hear.”

“Examine the deal with but?” I ask him.

Pop strikes round on the opposite finish of the road. “Uh, yeah, let me pull that up. Simply acquired it again out of your man, Mike. He’s nice at accounting, even higher at discovering shit.”

“I do know, he discovered a bunch of shit that’s solely including up proper now,” I inform him.

“That is fucked, Alessandro. It’s Oscar’s constructing, however that doesn’t make sense. Why?” my Pop asks. I can hear the crack in his voice because it dawns on my father how a lot shit we’ve been by means of the previous few weeks by the hands of my uncle.

“We’re right here,” Jenkins says.

“I gotta go, Pop.”

“Yeah, try this. I’m going to run some errands.” He hangs up, and whereas I need to warn him, or inform him to let me deal with it, I don’t have time to cease him.

“Okay, fellas, let’s go get my spouse out of there.”

Jenkins is wise sufficient to park a number of blocks away from the warehouse the place Evelyn’s being held. It’s in all probability underneath surveillance due to its proximity to the water, however by whom is anyone’s guess.

Lorenzo makes use of his navy coaching to guide the cost towards the warehouse. We’re ready to make use of one among his drones to take a look at the roof and right into a window that reveals us what we’re up in opposition to.

“It’s simply him and Evelyn inside. He’s acquired a desk with a knife set, and proper now, it seems like she’s cursing him out.

Mio dolce.

That’s when it hits me. “Alice Andrew.”

“What?” Jenkins whispers.

“That’s what the asshole known as me. Alice Andrew, however there’s solely been one man to ever name me that. It’s him. It will possibly’t be, however there’s nobody else. That voice, the enjoyment of his madness. It’s him, however he’s speculated to be lifeless.”

Lorenzo units his drone and its controller down earlier than grabbing me by the shoulders. “Brother, you’re rather a lot older now. Let’s make sure that he’s lifeless this time round.”

Jenkins strikes across the constructing, discovering its outside hearth alarm. He purposely units off the blaring ringing that lets the kidnapper know he’s been discovered. Lorenzo pops the locks, and we transfer inside swiftly.

We circle round a number of stacks of crates, coming to the opening within the middle of the room the place the maniac is holding a knife at Evelyn’s throat.

“How are you continue to alive?” I ask, weapons pointed on the man accountable for the nightmares that plague me to at the present time.

“Nicely, after you broke my jaw and sliced my throat open…” He pulls his shirt down to indicate me a jagged scar throughout his neck. “See? Yeah, blood buddies.”

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