Even in Death not to Part [18+]

Chapter 28 - Lorenzo

I get back home from the camp with Vinny and Pauly. I trained with the recruits today to make sure they were to my standard and they exceeded expectations.

"They did well today" I say to Vinny and Pauly as I open the fridge and grab a cold bottle of water, chucking one to each of them.

"They did surprisingly well, fuck Lorenzo you went hard on them!" Pauly said laughing

"I really think we are going to pull this off, the teams are strong, we have the numbers on our side" I gulp down the cold water. It is so refreshing. I need it after sweating buckets in the training suite.

My phone pings I look at it, I see it's a text from Marco, Diego is absolutely fine, well apart from a broken arm but apparently he is so pleased with the cast, he has been discharged and they are home. The message brings a smile to my face

"Good news?" Vinny askes

"Yeah Marco's kid is okay, they are back home now. Emilia is going to be over the moon when she hears this, she was so worried about Diego and Marco this morning." I wonder if she is back yet. I glance at the clock.

"Where is she?" Pauly asks

"She went to get her dress and had some last minute adjustments made but that was a while ago she should be back any minute" I try not to panic. I don't know how long this shit takes. I sent five guys with her including Johnny and I haven't heard anything to say she isn't okay so I assume she just needs work done to the dress. I slowly feel panic inside of me.

"The big day! you nervous yet cousin?" Vinny asks distracting me

"Not at all, I have never been more certain of anything in my life" I say proudly

"Of what? Emilia or this take over?" Pauly asks sipping his water

"Emilia, this take over means nothing if I don't have her by my side-"

I hear the front door burst open, we all pull our guns ready for whatever comes through the door

"WHERE IS HE? WHERE IS DON MARTELLO?" Johnny is shouting, he sounds panicked

what the FUCK, WHERE IS EMILIA!!

I run out to him he is in the foyer, he is sweating, panting I see the fear in his face

"Don Martello -" he is panting

"WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE!" I try to look around him to see if she is following behind but I don't see her. My heart starts racing, my palms are starting to sweat

"Don Mar-"

I don't let him finish is word my hands have grabbed him by his collar, still holding my gun it is pressed firmly to his temple.

"I SAID WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE!!!" I scream into his face, I can see tears are forming in his eyes from fear.

"She...she's been taken" he stutters

I don't think, before I know it I am standing over Johnny's limp body on the floor, his face is covered in blood and so are my fists.

"FUCK!!!" I scream at the top of my lungs. 

The other 4 men standing in the doorway, frozen in fear wondering if they will share the same fate as Johnny I wave my gun across the 4 of them

"ONE OF YOU MOTHER FUCKERS TELL ME WHERE SHE IS! ONE OF YOU! FUCKING SPEAK NOW BEFORE I EMPTY THIS FUCKING CLIP INTO YOUR FUCKING SKULLS!!"

one of the men speaks "We.. we don't know, we dropped her at the store like you told us too. Johnny told us that she told him she wanted and iced coffee so sent him over the road to get her one because she would be getting undressed-"

"HE FUCKING LEFT HER?!!!" I am seething and rapidly losing control. I turn around and kick Johnny in the stomach and he groans in pain. "SOMEONE FUCKING FIND HER!!!" I look to Pauly and Vinny who get on their phones immediately. 

"--And.. and that she would be okay and when he got back the shop was empty, so he went back to the dressing room and the owner was tied to a chair, gagged and crying" the guard continued.

I slam my hands against my head and ball them into fists pulling the root of my hair hard but I don't feel it, I feel nothing but rage and like my rib cage is being ripped open. I don't understand this feeling its alien to me but it fucking hurts, physically fucking hurts in my chest. 

"AND NOT ONE OF YOU USELESS MOTHER FUCKERS SAW ANYTHING!?! IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE FUCKING TELLING ME!" I scream at them know I am slipping rapidly into a dark place.

They all stood there silent looking to the floor I rush forwards to them until I am right up in their faces, I walk along the line

"IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE FUCKING TELLING ME?!" I scream in their faces

"What did the owner say?" Pauly called over to the men, I walk away pacing the line in front of my men. Panic, hate, fear, anger and grief is assaulting my body. 

"She said that there were two guys, and she said that they were told to get Miss Tradelli and Miss Tradelli only, she said that they..."

"THAT THEY FUCKING WHAT?!" I feel the last bit of control slip away into oblivion until I am nothing but a burning fire of hate and rage.

"That they knocked Miss Tradelli out by hitting her on the head with a gun, and that when Miss Tradelli came around that she tried to get free, but she wasn't strong enough and they took her out the emergency exit.. That's all she could tell us" I hear the fear in my mans voice as he speaks.

I stand there frozen, the image of Emilia racing through my mind, her smile, her laugh, her lips, the way her hair moves in the wind, her beautiful face, and glistening green eyes, how peaceful she is when she sleeps...theses images slowly fade and are then replaced with images of her lying unconscious on the floor of a shop, her struggling to get free and not being able to, her being taken and no one there to stop it, no one there to protect her.

I do not say a word, I feel empty, I feel lost, I feel hate, my chest is hurting..without looking I lift my gun and fire one bullet into each of the heads of the 4 men in front of me and finally one into the head of Johnny. 

I walk up the stairs to my office, as I head up the stairs I hear Vinny on the phone

"We need you Marco, we need you here now!..... Emilia has been taken and... and Lorenzo has... Shit Marco he has fucking lost it"

I slam the office door behind me. I am nothing but an empty shell, I know I should be doing something but I am numb, I am immobilised with grief and fear.