“Ok so what you wanna know”
“What time did you leave the party, what time you got home, if anyone can
collaborate your story.”
“I left when we got kicked out, I got in at one in the morning and yeah Amelia she
was asleep on the sofa when I got in. Happy now?”
“No not quite. The party got broke up at eleven how come it took you so long to
get home?”
“I dint have a lift, when the pigs came everyone bailed out and I couldntt find any
fucker so I had to walk.”
“Why did you not call for a cab or call Amelia to come pick you up?”
“My phone was back at my apartment and even if I had it on me I‘m hardly gonna
call Amelia what with the circumstances n all”
“Ah yeah, they raped her”
“King did yeah but you already know this.”
“So how come you went then if King raped your girl”
“Like I told you yesterday I dint know who they were until we were introduced and
then I just avoided them.”
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why you avoid them. They raped your girl right?”
“Yeah that’s why I avoided them, she asked me, well more like forced me to promise
not to do anything.”
“You always keep your word do you?”
“When I promise my girl yeah.” Cole rubbed his chin he knew his questioning was going nowhere. Lucas was mafia trained, only answer one question at a time occasionally with another question and never give out more information then needs be.
“Ok Lucas your good to go.”
“Are you sure? I do like these little get together’s we have come accustomed to.”
“Yeah, me too, pulls at your heart. Go please” Lucas walked out the door.
“Do you think he did it?” the principle asked.
“I‘m not at liberty to say but between you and me I wouldn’t put it past him, its in his blood.”
“Are you going to arrest him?”
“Nope. Got no hard evidence he has an alibi and I know walking from the hills to his area of town is a trek and if your drunk it can take forever.”
“So what will you do now?”
“Watch him, you too please, keep a close eye on him and if you hear or see anything gimmie a call” Cole handed the principle his card “I‘m done now thank you.”
“Hey Amelia” Kesha called out. Amelia stopped dead in her tracks. “How did Lucas get on with the cops again?”
“What do you mean again?”
“Oh shit sorry dint you know, that inspector guy took him back in for another chat, they think he‘s guilty.”
“Guilty why?” Amelia sounded shocked and nauseous.
“You know because Jono and Kingy they you know, raped you. I said he was dangerous”
“Who told you that?” Amelia asked stepping away from Kesha.
“Lucas.” Amelia was still stepping back when she bumped into someone, she turned around to see who it was and to apologise but it was Lucas.
“You told everyone.” she slapped him hard across his face “You bastard” Amelia ran off down the hall.
“Amelia” he called after her.
“Stay the fuck away from me, what right did you have to tell people.”
“What the hell did you say to her?” he asked Kesha.
“Just if she knew how you got on with the cops”
“What else?”
“That’s all.”
“Really well I don’t fucking believe you, what else?” he yelled at her.
“Chill out. Just that the cops thought you did it coz she got raped by them.”
“You stupid bitch.” Lucas took off down the hall to try and catch her up.
“Hey, I‘m sorry Lucas honestly” Kesha called out.
Lucas managed to catch up with Amelia, she was outside sat in her car, clutching her steering wheel.
“Why did you do it?” she asked looking up at him, her eyes all puffy.
“I didn’t think, I only said it Trey and he said that Jono and Kingy deserved it”
“Did you do it?”
“And what would you say if I told you I did” her face registered horror “Jesus Amelia how many times do I need to tell you.”
“Again please.”
“No.” he lied again. He hated lying to her but he did not think she would be able to handle it, the knowing. “Now are we going back to class or shall we go back to mine?”
“Yours. I cant go back in there with everyone knowing.”
“They don’t.”
“I still think they do” she started up the car and put it into gear “Are you coming?” Lucas hoped into the car and she drove to his apartment. Once inside she sat her self down, Lucas fixed them both a drink. “I‘m sorry I slapped you.”
“It‘s ok my face aint made of glass. Are we ok now? are you?”
“Yeah were good, I‘ll be ok. I‘m sorry I asked you again.”
“Hey its ok, ask me as many times as you like as long as you trust me.”
“I do trust you.”
Chapter Sixteen
Valentino was still pushing Lucas to spy on the O’Doud’s even though he now knew Amelia was an O’Doud, Lucas was still willing, he knew Amelia was an O’Doud but he did not believe she had any part of their world.
“Hey, where you going?” Amelia’s sleepy voice emerged from under the bed covers.
“For a jog, go back to sleep” he kissed her head, Amelia looked at the bedside clock.
“It‘s two a.m. Come back to bed” she smiled.
“I will later”
“Oh, don’t you love me no more” she teased.
“You know I love you and think your irresistible but I‘m gonna go for my jog, I‘ll be back soon” Amelia sighed and rolled over back to her sleep. Lucas had been up for most of the night, tossing and turning, he could not sleep. This was not because he was worried about being arrested for Bury and Kings murder but because he knew there was no chance of that, there were no leads and anything they had on Lucas was purely circumstantial, it was Amelia he was losing sleep over. He could not work out why someone so beautiful and carring could have been brought up by his own families enemy.
He jogged over to the O’Doud estate and made his way to the lit window. The O’Doud’s had company again which meant they were planning something, something to try and take out the Valentino on the west coast. He sat himself under the open window so as not to be seen by anyone.
“I had to sit for four fucking hours while that Cole pig grilled me about my whereabouts Saturday night” the chubby man ranted.
“I hads the same” the eye patch man replied “I thinks that theres maybe a Valentino on the West now.”
“Why though, I mean why would a Valentino murder Bury and King? theys were not threatening to them in anyway”
“Not to them they weren’t but if it is a Valentino carrying out all these hits then it could be to someone that their guy over here is close to.” Vinnie O’Doud inputted stroking his chin with his hand. Jimmy O’Doud never really spoke he just sat at the table taking everyone and everything in, he left the talking to his brother.
“Who‘s that then?” the chubby man asked.
“Amelia!” Lucas froze he was suddenly overcome by fear not towards him but towards her, she was his world and he had promised that he would not hurt her or let anyone else hurt her, this could mean that someone would try to hurt her now.
“Whys that boss?”
“Amelia got raped by King a few years back”
“Oh boss I dint know”
“It‘s ok. It was set up.”
“What was set up boss? The rape?”
“Yeah you see when her mother died Amelia went all fucked up, crying all the fucking time and she went all weak n shit. She started going out with that Bury kid, they were dating for a few months
or so and when Bury finally got her to give it up she broke it off with him saying she wasn’t ready. So Jimmy and I had King already working for us and he was best mates with Bury so we thought amongst us the best way to try n toughen her up coz I mean who wants a wreck in the O’Doud’s . Anyway we thought if King fucked her she might toughen up. didn’t work obviously coz she shut herself off form everyone, self harming and trying to kill herself, the whole crazy shit.”
“That’s seriously screwed ups boss” interrupted the eye patch man “Buts if it woulds of worked thens I guess shed of been quite good to trys n spies on peoples.” Lucas could not believe what he was haering her own family had her raped, he wanted to barge in there and kill them all now, to rip their hearts out whilst they were still alive.
“Whats this got to do with the Valentino‘s? no offence but I hardly think they would care boss” the chubby man asked.
“Maybe but Amelia seems to of gotten herself a new boyfriend, I‘ve been checking up on her and she aint be staying at The Hotel on weekends like she has been previously she seems to of been staying with this guy. This all started around the time Colleti was popped.”
“So yous thinks she’s sleeping arounds with a Valentino?” the eye patch man asked.
“I think that yeah, the guys she’s been seeing is a New Yorker.” Fuck Lucas said to himself quietly.
“So what you want us to do boss, kill the little fucker?”
“Eventually yeah but first we need to find out if she is seeing a Valentino. Marti I want you to put a tail on her find out were it is this guy lives and then yeah I want you to kill the little shit and make it painful”
“With pleasure boss” Marti the chubby man chuckled.
“Holds up if this guy she is seeings is a Valentino thens that makes him Lucas Valentino boss.” the eye patch man looked over to Vinnie.
“Wait a min Lucas Valentino he‘s they only Valentino boy, he‘s got a rep and a half boss. He‘s meant to be a real psycho a head case. Valentino has been training him since he was young enough to walk how to kill, how to be mafia, boss if he‘s our guy this aint going to be as easy as tailing them and killing him. Its gonna be messy, real messy.”
“He‘s right Vinnie” Jimmy spoke “Ask any mafia family they all know the name and none of them will go near that kid. I think we probably need to re think things. My guess is if he‘s here its to spy on us and kill us. If he finds out we had owt to do with Amelia‘s rape he‘s gonna go more psycho then ever before.”
“Your right. We‘ll have to think things through but not tonight its late sun will be up soon.”
“What about Amelia boss” the chubby man asked “You still want me to tail her?” Vinnie nodded and the five men left the table they were congregated around and left the room.
Lucas left his spot under the window and made his way back to his apartment. He pulled out his phone and dialled up his father.
“Hello” Valentino answered.
“They know”
“Who know what Lucas?”
“They know about me, about me and Amelia, about me spying on them, they know it all.”
“I told you to be rid of her, pretty faces always cause problems, how do you know this anyway?”
“I went over there just now they were saying how they knew she was seeing me and that they were gonna tail her and kill me.”
“You sound scared Lucas”
“Fuck no father I could kill them in my sleep but” he trailed off “She couldn’t and I fear for her safety. They’d kill her without batting an eye. I cant let that happen, I wont ”
“Shit Lucas are you out of your fucking mind you need to lose her, she‘s gonna blow your cover, she’s not worth it.”
“She is father I love her and I‘m not going to leave her whether you like it or not.”
“Fine Lucas but you and her are wrong for each other you’re the wrong kind of love. Be careful. I want you to call me everyday to check in and I want you to carry your piece with you at all time, be extra vigilant. I know the O’Doud’s are known as the Mickey Mouse Mafia Lucas and that they have very little influence outside of narcotics but you’ve taken something from them and I have a feeling they will not take this lying down. Please Lucas your on your own out there. Be careful.
“I will father don’t worry.”
“Watch out for your girl too, your gonna be dragging her into a world she doesn’t know, shouldn’t know, are you prepared for that?.”
“Yes I know and I will be don’t worry” Lucas hung up on his father and walked the steps to his apartment, it was early, Amelia would be asleep, was he ready to tell her who he was the real him, would she understand, how would she react. Lucas loved her with every inch of his body, he could not bare to find out her reaction, he could not bare to lose her.
Chapter Seventeen
The heat on the King and Bury murder had calmed down some what now, Detective Inspector Andy Cole had found no leads that he could pursue, he knew who had carried out the murders and he knew why. He knew it was Lucas and he did not blame him as such though the acts of violence he had inflicted upon the two were both calculated and intentional he had thought that his reasoning was out of loyalty to Amelia, he had felt he needed to protect her and as he was not around when King had raped her and in some way even though they had never met at that time in her life he still felt as if somehow he had let her down. Mafia men had two great loves; the love to kill and the love for one woman though many Mafia men such as Raymond Valentino had mistresses but they only ever loved one woman, sex was sex but love was a bond in a relationship that at some point would be blessed upon by God in one of his Church’s. Amelia was Lucas’s great love.
Cole could not link Lucas to the murders though his alibi was a little sketchy in places it all seemed to link together well. He also thought that the Colleti, Cowter and Andonetti murders were linked together. Cole knew they had to be mafia related the murders were controlled and quick and in the instance of Andonetti’s head being hacked off, disturbing and violent. It was the kind of murders that all police wanted a quick arrest for but knew that the murders may be just the beginning of something more sinister and many more deaths to come. He knew that Lucas was a Valentino and being a Detective he had heard many rumours revolving around the name they were New York’s most dangerous Mafia family.
The portfolio of crimes associated with the Valentino’s included; the decapitation of Alfred Denaz he was one of the top five family bosses in New York, back in the 1960’s Denaz had tried to upstage the Valentino’s it was a time when they were short of money and Denaz was boasting that he was going to buy the Valentino wealth and take it to pieces to sell but this never happened. Instead Denaz was found dead in his home, decapitated. Every limb looked to of been ripped from his body, when the coroners came to take away his body it had to be taken away in several separate bags, it was a stomach curdling experience for all involved. Then there was Leo and Jonny Lapel they were originally part of the Valentino commission but along the way for some reason were removed and the next day they were found dead in a car which had gone over a cliff. The Valentino’s ran most of New York’s underworld, they ran the brothels, the casinos the majority of everything New York had to offer and they had their fingers in all the crime, the list of murders that the family were tied to was astronomical.
It was imperative that Lucas would go to war with the O’Doud’s. They had ruined Amelia’s life and Lucas would be her angel of vengeance, he was prepared to kill everyone that had ever hurt her and he knew it was a long list but that also the O’Doud’s and their commission would pay the worst. He loved her, she took his breathe away when ever he saw her, he would not jeopardise her happiness because her past was haunting her, in his mind the best way to take away the pain would be to eliminate her past the same past that caused her present pain.
“Lucas where have you been?” Lucas walked into his apartment, Amelia was stood in one of his t-shirts, she still looked amazing
in his clothes.
“Just out sweetie, why you miss me?” he walked over to her, ran his fingers through her hair and kissed her. He walked her backwards to the wall and picked her up, her back pushed against the cold wall, her legs wrapped around his waist.
“Clearly not as much as you missed me” she giggled
“I want you so bad Amelia” he looked her in her eyes a look of hunger for her, she nodded in acceptance. He kissed her neck her chest cupped her breasts in his hands and entered her in a short sharp motion. Amelia’s checks flushed, her hands traced all over Lucas’s body removing his shirt, sweat formed on his brow, beads of perspiration dripped down his face. The passion between them was intoxicating they were moving as one body intertwined in each other, they came together, both breathless and smiling “I love you.”
“I love you too” Lucas gently pulled himself out of Amelia and slouched onto the floor.
“I have something to tell you, something you wont like and probably hate me for”
“I could never hate you, what is it?” she asked nervously.
“I think maybe you should sit down” he pointed to the sofa.
“No I‘m fine here” she stayed close to the wall “Is it to do with Kesha?”
“Oh my sweet Amelia no nothing like that” he smiled.
“Then what?”
“You know my last name is Valentino don’t you” she nodded “Have you heard anything about that name?” she shook here head. “It’s a notorious mafia name around the states, were from the east coast, New York.” Amelia slumped onto the floor her face full of surprise. “I was sent here by my father to observe an Irish Mafia family to gain info on them, their activities and plans”
“Mafia?” Amelia looked worried and cautious of Lucas “Irish Mafia” she paused “Then that would mean your watching over the..”
“The O‘Doud‘s Amelia, your family” Amelia scrambled to her feet and started walking to the front door. “Amelia wait where are you going?” he placed his hand on her arm as she reached for the door handle.
“I err I should go”
“Why?”
“Why? Because I‘m part of that family” a tear rolled down her check, Lucas wiped it away with his finger and brushed her hair out of her face “You, you told me you loved me, I, I slept with you. Was it to gain information on them?”
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