My slight encouragement worked. Both Nico and Mason are gone this morning which means I won’t have to do too much sneaking around to follow the lead Mom and 1 discovered yesterday. I open my phone to give Mom a text.
Are we hanging out today?
She replies not even a minute later.
Yep! I’ll be over soon. Love you xx
By the time I shower, dress and have a quick breakfast, Mom and Uncle Matteo are here, the later looking a lot like he would rather be anywhere else but here. I lead them through to the kitchen and
take a seat on one of the stools.
“Wow, baby girl, this house is amazing!” Mom coos as she looks around the space.
“I’d give you a tour, but I think we have more pressing matters. What did you find out about this
warehouse?”
Matteo opens his laptop of the kitchen counter and proceeds to show me everything he’s uncovered.
“Looks like it’s only lightly guarded, might be a rendezvous point for their shipments. I watched it
for a few hours last night and there really wasn’t much activity coming to and from, just a few guards circling it in shifts.”
I look over at Mom and I’m not sure who’s more excited about this, me or her.
“Let’s go check it out then!” She claps her hands and Matteo frowns.
“I’m really not sure about that Donna. You know your husbands will have my head if anything
happens to either of you.”
“Well, we better not let anything happen to us then, come on!”
Matteo knows he won’t win this argument so he just sighs heavily and gives in.
We’re just about to leave the house when Tommy stops us.
“Uhh…Miss Donatello, Mrs Donatello, Sir, good morning. Where are we off to today?” He holds his hand on the doorknob warily.
“No need to worry, Tommy, Mom and I are going out to lunch and as you can see, we have my uncle
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here for protection.” I take a step forward and he takes one back, putting his body on the door
“I am really sorry, but I can’t let you go without a security team…Boss’s orders. A few other guards have filed into the room, clearly the ‘security team‘ that we don’t need or want.
“How about this…I’ll let you come with us and leave the others here.”
“No can do, sorry, boss’s orders.” He crosses his arms in a firm gesture.
“Okay then how about this. You get the fuck out of my way and tell your boss that you couldn’t do anything about it or my Mom and I kick all of your assess and leave you here anyway.”
Tommy looks to some of the guards and then backs to us before stifling a laugh. I hear a few of the
other guys laugh too.
“I’m sorry, but that is just ridiculous.”
“Is it? How about you take my Mom on one on one and we see about that?”
He looks down at Mom who’s standing casually by my side, sizing her up before raising an eyebrow.
“I can’t do that. She’s Donna of the Donatello family. Hurting her would mean a bullet to the head.”
Mom steps forward, raising her chin to look at him. “Don’t worry sweetheart. You wouldn’t land a
single hit anyway.”
This makes everyone in the room but Mom, Matteo and I burst out in laughter. They clearly haven’t heard about what she’s capable of.
“Alright, alright. One on one, but when I hurt you, you have to tell your husbands not to off me.”
“And when I knock you out, you let us leave on our own and deal with the consequences of that.”
Mom says firmly.
Tommy laughs all the way to the front yard where he removes his jacket and his side piece, handing them off to one of the guards while Mom takes off her heals and throws them to the grass. They stand in a fighting stance, fists ready, Tommy bouncing from one foot to another while Mom stands calmly still.
Matteo yells “Fight!” and Tommy moves forward, sloppy, probably not wanting to give it his all in fear of hurting her. He leans down to grab her around the waist and at the same time Mom grabs his
- e. He head, bringing it down further and faster onto her knee as she thrusts it upwards into his rears back, holding his bloody nose in shock and Mom sweeps his feet out from under him. .ommy falls hard onto his back, knocking the wind from him as Mom delivers one solid punch down onto his face and Tommy blacks out. The noise and commotion from the surrounding guards falls quiet as Mom collects her heels, winks at me and starts walking to the car her and Matteo came in. I laugh
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and shake my head as I follow behind her, waving to the stunned guards and yelling out, “Tell Nico and Mason I’ll be home this afternoon.”
“So I assume my Dad’s are with Nico and Mason again today?” I ask curiously from the backseat.
“Yep. I had Matteo hack into the computer system. They’re following a completely different lead on the other side of town. It didn’t look too promising. They’re basically just finding members of the cartel and trying to get one of them to speak about Pedro’s whereabouts.” Mom replies.
“Sounds exhuasting.”
“Mmm, I’m not sure why any of them thought it would be a good idea to keep it from me, but never mind that. I’ll be dealing with your fathers once we find and kill Pedro first.” She say, turning to me with a whicked grin.
“It was also quite silly on their part not to have Matteo on their team, but that only works in our favor, doesn’t it?”
“Matteo doesn’t want to be on any team, but the promises of owed baby sitter nights are kind of a good incenstive.” Matteo mutters from the drivers seat.
