Page 4 of Legend
“Because it does, my dear,” Stephano Descalia corrected me. “No matter what a person does or accomplishes in life, they cannot erase their bloodline. That would be impossible.” He then gave Justice a small smile. “Justice here is very familiar to me. In fact, my whole family knows of him.”
Zed looked puzzled as he looked back and forth at father and son. “Legend, our Doc, is part of the mafia? And you, Justice, know his family? I am totally lost here.”
“Right?” I exclaimed. “You took the words right outta my mouth, Uncle Zed.” It was one thing for Legend to hide this fromus but it was an entirely different matter that Justice knew this Descalia family too.
Justice looked troubled as he tried to explain how he knew these two men, “Stephano here and his oldest son, Luca were involved in a trial I consulted for. Mind you, I wasn’t the leading attorney or anything, but it was a huge case.”
“It’s a good thing we didn’t have you knocked off then, wasn’t it, Mr. Justice?”
We all looked over at another man who stepped out of the limo now. He also looked a lot like Legend but he was younger than Stephano. He was smiling and he didn’t look angry like Stephano did.
“Luca,” Legend whispered.
“Yeah, baby bro.” Luca smiled at him. “Long time no see.” He reached out and patted Legend’s shoulder. “Like it’s been years.”
“Ten years, 5 days and 22 hours,” Legend’s dad, Stephano stated. “Since he left his family home and did not return.”
“Wow,” Justice said. “This news is shocking, I gotta admit. But my sister is right. Legend is part of our family and has been for quite some time.”
“Si, he hid himself well.” Stephano nodded. “I did find his medical school records but by that time, he had graduated.”
“Hell, yeah. A doctor no less, Pops,” Luca boasted as he kept his grin.
Stephano did not smile as he nodded.
I immediately gathered that Stephano wasn’t as proud as Luca was about Legend being an MD.
“Well, I suppose we should all go inside,” Zed suggested. “We can talk about whatever this is inside.”
Stephano looked over at Legend to ask, “Are we welcomed?”
Legend shrugged his shoulders. “It’s not my place to say.”
“The hell it isn’t,” I said. “Legend is a part of the club as well as a family member.” I stared at Legend. “If you want them to leave, then they should leave.”
“That would be fine normally,” Luca said. “And something I would have expected after he’s been missing for ten years, but we have something to discuss that is a matter of…Vita o morte.” He looked over at me and my confused expression, then translated it, “Life or death.”
Stephano glanced at him then looked up at Legend. “He is correct. We did come to see you, Gio for famiglia reasons yes, but we felt the need to find you for more than just a reunion. È una questione importante. A real concern. You might be interested in this person who started poking into who you are. A very dangerous man from what we found. He is into unscrupulous endeavors that even we do not partake in. From what we found when we investigated him, this is a man who has no scruples.”
“Holy shit…” I stared at him in dismay. I knew who he meant. This was not good news. “Deacon?” I gasped.
Luca and Stephano looked over at me then they both nodded.
“Crap,” I muttered.
“The man is insane,” Stephano added. “Comes out of nowhere. No fear of us, or your MC. He had questions about Giovanni.”
“Giovanni?” Justice asked as he looked confused.
Luca chuckled and looked over at his brother. “What name do you go by here?”
“Legend,” he said.
“Oh, very clever.” Luca nodded, then he looked up at me. “Allow me to introduce you all…Your MC doctor, Legend is Giovanni Cassio Descalia. His mother is Alessandra Gespie Descalia. You have already met his father, Stephano. But he has a large family despite living his life as a supposed orphan. His brothers are Romeo, Amadeo, Dante and me.”
“Don’t forget his cousins,” a loud voice called.
Suddenly, two very large men appeared from around the other side of the limousine. They both grinned at Legend. They were wearing suits and they had some large bellies under their jackets.
