Chapter 74
Luciano
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The shipment should be pretty straight forward, they’re all supposed to be, but lately they’ve been coming up short, if they make it at all. I have my suspicions that the same rat that’s been fucking with our girl is fucking with these shipments too.
“Have you spoken with the Captain, Luca?”
“Yep, he’s docked and waiting. I told him we’re just five minutes out.”
“Good.”
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I’m sitting in the car with Luca and Luciano, listening to them talk about how this run will go. I pull out my phone and quickly shoot off the details to Alexander before we get there. Today will go exactly how we’ve planned it.
Luca
We arrive at the docks and split the men into their positions. I scan the area before we start our way down the dock. Something doesn’t feel right to me. All these shipments going wrong previously…maybe we just got lucky this time. Luciano greets the Captain and we make our way aboard to check the crates. I check the paperwork and then the crates, twenty three in total. The next step would be to check the contents. Brody hands Luciano a crow bar and Hudson has mine.
“We’ll start down this end.”
“Yep, make sure you check it completely, no false bottoms, count every gun and log it.”
“On it, Don.”
Hudson and I make our way to the end of the crates, whoever loaded them did a shitty job because they’re not stacked neatly, they’re a fucking mess. So we have to weave through them, giving us some cover from everyone else. That should have been my first clue to something being wrong.
“Keep your head on a swivel.” I tell Hudson who nods and follows behind. Once we get to the last crate, I can’t see the others due to this mess of crates, I put my hand out to Hudson for the crowbar.
“Let me, boss.” He says and shoves it into the lid and begins to pry it open for me. It lifts with a heavy crack, and we make easy work of taking off the heavy wooden lid and placing it to the side. I lead over the crate and start to count and catalogue what we’ve got when I feel an ungodly smack in the back of my head.
“What the fuck?!” I shout, pulling my head out of the crate to turn around. Just as I do I see Hudson with the crowbar in hand now dripping with my blood and a sick fuck look on his face. “Sorry about this, brother.” He spits out sarcastically and swings again to the side of my head. That’s all I see before everything goes black,
Luciano.
I’m writing down numbers when I hear Luca shout out, “What the fuck?!” I quickly drop what I’m doing and look to Brody who’s already running down the direction with me. James comes in through the corner along with a couple more guards just as we cut through the last corner where Luca and Hudson should be. I come to a quick halt when I see a bunch of men that definitely aren’t mine, and Hudson, holding a gun to Luca’s head while he lays on the ground. He’s got blood dripping over his eye from what looks like a bad cut on his temple. Mother fucker!
“Mr Donatello, how nice of you to join us.” The voice spurs me to look away from Luca and to the mountain of a man in the middle of the group. He’s got to be half a head taller than me, pure muscle, jet black hair that’s kept wildly swept over his forehead. Every inch of his exposed skin is cosered in tattoos, they’re even some on his face. The most prominent being the dagger on one side of his face, and the letters along his jaw line under it that’s reads ‘Ariana‘. This sick fuck!
“You must be Alexander,” I grunt out at him.
“I must be, and you have something that belongs to me,”
‘Like hell she does!” I roar out and step forward, but he lets out a “tut tut tut” sound and puts his foot on Luca’s head.
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“Now now, wouldn’t want him to lose his head, now, would you?”
I reluctantly step back and clench my fists to try and alleviate some of the rage inside of me.
“Good boy.” He spits out. “Now here’s what’s going to happen, Mr Donatello. You’re going to come with me and tell your men to step down, or I’m going to squash your buddies‘ brains into the floor. Sound good?”
“Why the fuck would I do that?”
“Because. We both know how tricky my little savage beast can be and she’s going to need something enticing for her to want to come to me. So you and this guy down here are going to be just that. Bait.”
“You’re fucking stupid if you think Tony would let her run off to save our asses!”
“Oh don’t worry. I have a plan for that mutt as well. Now what’s it going to be?” He says as he applies more pressure to Luca’s head.
I look at my guys, at Luca, I think hard about all the different ways this could end. I know Ariana would be heartbroken over Luca’s death. If I can just keep him alive, we can get our way out of this. We have to, for her and Tony will keep her safe, I know him, he’s the best warrior I have.
step forward and guns from both sides are raised. I look back at my guys, “Lower them and stand down.”
“But Don!” Brody starts.
“Stand. Down. Get to Ariana and Tony, tell them to hide as quick as possible and keep them safe.” He nods and my guys do as they’re told and stand down. I stand in front of Alexander and I hear the sound of multiple guns firing, quickly turning around to see he’s just had all of my guys shot. Their bodies lay limp and lifeless, and the smell of blood and gunpowder fills the air. “What the fuck?!” I roar out just as I feel a pinch in my neck, my vision blurs and I fall to the floor.
