“Oh baby no, nobody knew about you. I dint know that you lived with the O‘Doud‘s until Bury and King‘s murder. I meant it when I said I love you, I do love you more then you‘ll ever know. I promised you I would never hurt you ever and I would not let anyone hurt you ever again.”
“I think I‘m going to be sick” she ran to the bathroom and closed the door, Lucas waited on the other side of the door, he knocked.
“Are you ok?” he asked softly.
“If I asked you something will you tell me the truth, answer honestly. Lucas you wont lie will you.”
“I promise” he knew what was coming but he had to answer truthfully, he promised “Did you” she hesitated for a second “Did you murder Jono and Kingy?” The air was silent , Lucas did not want to answer “Please Lucas, answer me, you promised”
“Amelia come out the bathroom”
“No not until you answer” she whispered.
“For fucks sake Amelia what do you want me to say, you know the truth don’t you or you wouldn’t be asking me again”
“Just answer the question” she shouted from behind the closed door.
“Yeah I did it, is that what you want to hear” he could hear her sobbing his heart was breaking “I fucking killed the bastards I told you I wunt let no one hurt you and them fuckers were still hurting you. I love you Amelia, I did it for you” she opened the door, Lucas went forward to hug her but she pushed him away, her eyes were dead and cold, he had never seen her this way before.
“You did It for me, I never fucking asked you to do that for me in fact I fucking made you promise you wouldn’t, you lied to me. You lied to me Lucas. What else have you been hiding from me? I’ve so far found out you’re mafia and a murderer and that you’ve been fucking me to gain info on my step family. You make me fucking sick how could you do this to me. I should of fucking listened to my head when you first asked me out but oh no I had to give you the benefit of the doubt thinking you were a decent guy maybe a little lost and misunderstood but oh no your fucking worse then anything I could of imagined.” tears were streaming from her eyes, Lucas was shocked he knew her reaction would be bad but he did not expect her to go crazy over it. Amelia grabbed her coat and stepped into her shoes and headed for the door.
“Where you going?”
“You think I‘m gonna stay here with you, you’re a fucking murderer, I don’t wanna be anywhere near you.”
“I did it for you Amelia. I love you.”
“That’s not love Lucas, love is where you go out, have fun, make love. Not go out and fucking kill people, that is not love” she screamed.
“Amelia I do I love you.”
“I don’t want your love anymore Lucas you’re the wrong kind of love for me” she opened the door but Lucas slammed it shut. He had her pinned to the door not so that he would hurt her but just so that she would not be able to move.
“I cant let you go Amelia, I love you more then you know and you love me”
“I loved you Lucas” she spat.
“You don’t mean that. You do love me if you didn’t you wunt be acting like this”
“I‘m acting like this because you fucking killed people”
“I did it for you”
“Stop saying that and let me move please, I wanna leave”
“I cant let you go back home Amelia its not safe”
“Says the murderer” she snarled.
“What do you think your family are, open your eyes Amelia, your so called family are mafia too but you already know that you just choose not to see it”
“And tell me why am I safer here with you then at home with them?”
“Because I was there last night listening to them talking and I heard, I heard your stepfather say” he paused and looked away, he dropped his arms to his sides so Amelia could leave if she wanted to.
“Say what? What did they say?”
“They were talking about you. Amelia they were talking about how they got King to…” he paused “To rape you.”
“Your lying, they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t ”
“I‘m not baby I wouldn’t lie to you” he paused again “Well not about this.”
“I don’t believe you. I wont” she ran out the door leaving it wide open as she left. Lucas just stood in the apartment not sure if he should follow her, he knew she would be heading home, her mustang was parked outside his apartment underneath his balcony, he walked over to the balcony opened the door and stepped out into the warm sun light and looked down at Amelia’s car, he saw her getting in it and speeding off down the street shortly followed by another car, the driver Lucas recognised as Marti the chubby man from the O’Doud’s meetings.
Lucas lit up a cigarette and sighed, he was going to have to show himself at the O’Doud’s. Amelia was going to need some help. These men she thought of as family were dangerous and not dangerous in the way Lucas was, dangerous in the way that they had her raped at such a tender age, she had gone there to confront them and he could not see this happening without some kind of repercussion whether it be something miniscule or something that could eventually escalate beyond peoples wildest dreams.
Chapter Eighteen
Lucas looked over at the O’Doud estate, he saw Amelia’s mustang roar into the compound followed by the car that was tailing her. He watched as she ran into the house, he threw his cigarette butt over the balcony, grabbed his colt from the bed side table, checked he had a round, shut the door and locked up his apartment, he walked down the stairs to the ground floor. It was a hot day again so he choose to walk to the estate, it was not far.
Lucas arrived at the O’Doud estate, there was nobody around, no guards, no dogs and none of the O’Doud commission. He thought this odd. Back home, his family home had twenty four hour guards walking around the perimeter, he shrugged this off when he was younger because he thought it a game but as he grew and learnt more about the family he was born into he knew it was for protection, protection from everyone that was connected to the underworld, many a mafia family would of loved to of been the one to kill the Valentino name but none succeeded mainly through their own stupidity and lack of planning but more so because though a very dangerous family the Valentino’s were smart. They believed in that long known saying ‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer’.
Lucas was able to walk right up the drive of the estate without being seen, he stood at the main entrance and peered through a window, he saw Amelia arguing with the chubby man that was following her and he saw him push her away.
“I wouldn’t push her if I were you” Lucas bellowed as he barged through the main door.
“What are you doing here?” Amelia asked, her face still swollen from tears.
“It aint safe for you here I told you. What you think I‘m just gonna let you come here alone. Yeah sure.” Marti the chubby man had run off out of the estates fantastic hall. Lucas had to take a breathe to take it all in, from floor to ceiling it had to be at least the height of Lucas times three, it was made of pure marble, the finest wood and gold, there were carvings in the wood of cherubs and angels and gods, a huge gold and crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling which lit the whole hall revealing all its beauty, he laughed to himself thinking how the mafia always had the best of everything.
“I have to stop and catch my breath too every time I come in here” Vinnie O’Doud spoke as he emerged from behind a closed door, Marti must of gone and told him who was here. “Lucas we meet at last, it’s a pleasure”
“For you maybe” he looked over at Amelia but she did not move she turned to her stepfather who was now joined by his brother Jimmy.
“Is it true step father?” she asked.
“Is what true?” Vinnie O’Doud replied.
“What Lucas says that you had me raped?” the tears started to roll again.
“Ah so we never had a traitor in our own ranks Quinn it looks like we had our very own spy from the outside” Vinnie laughed.
“Is that
a yes?” she screamed, Lucas had never heard Amelia so angry as today he’d never heard her shout or swear. Vinnie pivoted round and walked up to Amelia, he ran his hand over her face.
“You look like your mother you know, such beauty. You know when she died I dint have to keep you around, I could of left you and put you into care”
“I know and I am grateful but please tell me did you.”
“When your mother died you were so sad, crying all the time and shit, I thought you would get over it toughen up you know and you did the crying stopped but you started cutting yourself fuck knows why or what you got from dragging a razor over your skin and making yourself bleed and frankly I dint care. We had a rep and no body wanted a fucking crazy kid fucking it up” Amelia looked surprised she was hoping Lucas had been lying to her but she knew herself deep down that he would not of been. She knew he loved her and in his own way the things he did and tried to justify were done out of protection for her. “When you started seeing that Bury kid you started drinking and doing drugs now this was more of a respectable way to act in our family but then I hear you fucked him and then started saying shit like you weren’t ready and wanted to take things slow. King worked for me off and on dealing drugs to kids your age for a few years, I asked him one day to fuck you he said that you had gone all frigid and that you wunt let him so I gave him the green light to rape you I knew that’s how he got his kicks so yeah I got him to rape you I thought it would toughen you up.” Amelia walked forward and slapped him, Vinnie grabbed her so he had his arm around her neck, she was looking at Lucas for help he could see what she wanted, he could see how scared she was and how she now needed his help but he did not want to move in case it were too soon, the O’Doud’s would have been expecting this and though they were not as quick as Lucas they had time to have formulated a plan. “Fucks sake Amelia think about it why after your mother died did I really keep you around? It weren’t because we had a close father daughter bond frankly I hate kids, it was because you looked like your mother. I kept you around coz one of these days I was gonna fuck you” Amelia went all limp she tried to wriggle free but could not her body was not moving how her brain was telling it. “I wanted to fuck you real good so I got you raped but instead of it toughening you up you were more of an emotional wreck then before and I know I have low standards but even I wasn’t gonna fuck you like that” he laughed looking at Lucas, it was an evil laugh that made you want to cringe “Guess you must have been though eh Lucas, desperate” Lucas lunged forward but stopped when he saw Vinnie O’Doud pull a gun out with his free hand and place it next to Amelia’s temple. “I wunt if I were you Lucas. I lost interest in you when you went all crazy cutting yourself more and trying to kill yourself so I left you to get on with things on your own but then I finds out your fucking shagging him a fucking Valentino. Jesus fucking Christ Amelia a fucking Valentino I know in your pretty little head you knew his surname you’ve heard though maybe not choose to listen us say their name often enough. Your fucking a Valentino maybe I should fuck you now, here, in front of him, yeah what you say Lucas fancy watching me fuck your girl” he laughed running his grubby hands all over Amelia, up her top and grabbing her breast hard. Amelia was crying and shaking but both Vinnie and Jimmy were just laughing. Lucas again lunged forward but Vinnie cocked the gun at the side of her head ready to shoot. “Maybe I should fuck her in front of you then kill you in front of her.”
“Oh god Lucas help please” Amelia pleaded. Lucas nodded and smiled at her a safe and reassuring smile, he pulled out his colt from inside his jeans and aimed at Jimmy O’Doud.
“Oh please she‘d be dead before you even had a chance to fucking pull the trigger”
“Really you think. Come on you know all about me you’ve heard all the rumours about me you know what I can do, do you really want to risk it” Vinnie lowered his gun “Yeah I thought not, now let her go” Vinnie let his grip go on Amelia but before he let her go he turned her around and held onto her tight he kissed her neck and licked all the way up her face.
“You‘ll regret this you know fucking taking off with him, you‘ll pay just remember that. I‘ll always be right behind you so make sure your looking” Vinnie pushed her away, she ran to Lucas and he hugged her tightly she clung to him like a he was her life preserver. Lucas whispered to her to run to go back to his apartment but she would not leave him, Lucas had his back to the O’Doud brothers as he was asking her to go.
“Lucas look out” Amelia screamed, he spun round to see Vinnie’s arm raised and a bullet hurtling towards them he pushed Amelia out the way and shot back at the brothers, his first shot missed but his second slammed straight into Jimmy O’Doud’s chest forcing him to the ground. Vinnie turned to see his brother lying on the ground, motionless. He started spraying bullets towards the two. Lucas grabbed Amelia and told her to get out.
“Not without you Lucas come on we both have to leave he‘ll kill you now please” she grabbed his arm and dragged him out the hall entrance, they ran to her car and jumped in Lucas started up the engine and started to drive off, Vinnie had followed them out still shooting
“You‘ll be sorry now, this is fucking war. Watch your fucking backs now.” Vinnie yelled after them.
Chapter Nineteen
“What are we … what happened.. I mean what are we gonna do now, were dead right he‘s gonna kill us both now.” Amelia was hyperventilating as she spoke between her fast heart beat and waterfall of tears, Lucas just stood out on the balcony smoking, he was calm and cool, he was not like Amelia but then this was his life he grew up around this, he was accustom to this “Lucas are we gonna end up dead?” He turned to look at her and walked over, brushed the hair back from her face and smiled.
“Do you forgive me about King and Bury” he asked softly.
“I…I guess so I know in your own way you did it for me and I guess that’s the mafia in you but answer me Lucas are we gonna end up dead?.”
“Do you love me still?”
“Yes I do, I love you I never stopped I‘m sorry I told you I didn’t want your love I do but Lucas please answer me.” Lucas put his arms around Amelia’s waist and kissed her passionately, he felt himself stiffen beneath his jeans.
“I love you Amelia and no were not gonna end up dead” he lied, truth was he’d just killed Vinnie’s brother, fact of the matter was there was a great chance that they would end up dead but this was not what Amelia wanted or needed to hear. “You’ve been watching the Godfather too much” he smiled, she softened in his arms.
“I hope your right Lucas. There‘s just the two of us and one gun but there’s more of them and they have more guns if this turns into a war then were hugely out numbered. Oh shit it’s all my fault I should never of gone round there I wish you had never told me who you really were, shit this is so fucked up.” Lucas kissed Amelia on the top of her head to soothe her then he sat her on the sofa.
“Amelia please calm down I promise its gonna be ok, trust me I‘ll not let anything happen to you, I love you. I do think I need to let my father know of the turn of events. Here drink this it‘ll calm you down a bit” he passed her a shot of whisky which she took without hesitation and drank in one swallow, Lucas smiled. He stepped out onto the balcony and looked over at the O’Doud estate again. It looked quiet, no more cars had arrived, no more people had arrived and there were still no guards around the estate. He rubbed his hands through his mop of hair pulled out his phone and his cigarette pack, he tapped the pack and pulled one out lighting it with a match he’d lit off the wall, he inhaled and exhaled through his nose as if he were a dragon breathing out fire. He flipped open his phone and called his father.
“It‘s me, Lucas”
“Well yes I gathered son, how are you?” his father asked.
“Not good, there‘s been a problem” Lucas sighed.
“Yes I know you’ve killed Jimmy O‘Doud. What happened?”
“How did you know?”
“I have eyes and ears everywhere
Lucas I‘m on the first flight out tomorrow. You need to stay put Lucas don’t try anything crazy. that’s an order son I mean it your way over your head in shit now. What happened?”
“I heard the O‘Doud‘s talking about Amelia. The fucking bastards were talking about how they had her raped. Father her own family had her raped and I… I told her about me, about being a Valentino and what the Valentino name stood for, about how I was mafia the whole thing. Then she asked me about Bury and King made me promise not to lie to her so I told her I killed them I mean I did it for her I thought she‘d understand” he paused Valentino said nothing he was quite and listening to his son. “But she didn’t she went off the wall I thought she‘d understand. She wanted to go home but I was trying to get her to stay with me. It‘s not safe for her at home, its not her fucking family got her raped. Anyway so she was about to leave and so I.. I told her what I heard them say and she didn’t believe me she ran out my apartment jumped into her car and drove off. Another car followed her. I had to go save her she needed me. I was right, she confronted her family. They told her everything, then that fucking prick Vinnie O‘Doud grabbed her and put a fucking gun to her head he said he was gonna fucking rape her in front of me, he didn’t but then it went all crazy shots were been fired n I guess I shot Jimmy. This is so fucking messed up.”
“Lucas” his father sighed “I told you not to let anyone get too fucking close to start asking questions that was your first mistake, your second you fucking fell for some broad who lives with the very people your observing and third you fucking told her everything. Seriously Lucas what the hell were you thinking?”
“I know I‘m sorry father.”
“Sorry aint good enough. Now you’ve got yourself and your girl in a right predicament. You need to stay together and stay inside if you have to go out go very local and be vigilant, keep your eye on everything and keep that fucking gun at your side as if it were a second skin. Do you hear what I‘m saying?”
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