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“What?” Luca sat forward while looking intrigued. “That is foolish. Like why would he do all that just for…” He paused. “…Sesso…Um, sex? There are plenty of females to have.”
“You’d think so, right? He had said something about his mother insisting he keep the bloodline of her side going,” Zed explained. “He claimed Jewel was the perfect woman to have his progeny.”
“So in essence, he wanted her as his baby mama,” Glory piped up as she looked disgusted by the whole idea. “Can you imagine? Like she would have been forced to have kids with him? When she didn't even really know him. How crazy is that? I mean, people have the right to choose their own mate.”
“It is not unheard of,” my father told her. “To arrange marriages for having children.”
I shook my head as I knew what he meant. The Italians were big on doing arranged marriages. I also knew Glory wouldn’t ever agree that this idea was fair at all.
Zed shrugged. “But who really knows what that crazy man thinks. When it all fell apart, he blew up a whole city block. Just to get away, with no care of who he might hurt.”
“I wasn't surprised by that at all,” Justice said. “We knew that when he took Glory.”
My father and brother turned to stare at her.
She raised her hands up at them. “No, it wasn’t for baby making, thank God.” Shrugging, she said, “I never even saw him or spoke to him the whole time he held me. I was taken for a trade.”
“A trade?” Luca asked her.
“Yes.” Glory nodded. “They had captured O. Deacon had been instructed by her sometime back to take me if she was ever captured, so they would have to release her.”
“And you are here, safe. So they did make the trade?” my father asked.
Shaking her head, Glory said, “No, my cousins along with my brothers, rescued me. O is dead now.”
“Oh, really?” Luca looked curious. “So the Walkers executed her?”
“Hell no!” Zed interjected as he looked insulted by this conclusion. “They didn’t do that, she committed suicide.”
“Interesting,” Luca commented. “And she did this while in their custody?”
“It is a long story, father,” I told him. “But we got Glory back.”
“And you all came back here,” Luca concluded.
“No, not all of us,” Zed replied. “Their father Jarret is now with Bea. So is Jarret's oldest son, Redemption. The entire Walker family had to split up into groups as Deacon seemed to have located where they were hiding out at.”
“So, he wants them all dead?” my father asked him. “Just like the old days of a famiglia war?”
“Yes, in the past, he had threatened to blow up the Walker ranch in Louisiana,” Glory said.
“We need to end him,” Luca stated coldly.
“Not so easy to do,” Zed said.
“He's right,” Justice agreed. “He literally seems to be living underground. We found out that his mother had a hobby of building underground bunkers. So he has been using them for months now.”
“They have had leagues of men hunting for him,” Zed added. “The Rebel Saints have been their army in this and they have had men all over the area, looking for his hideouts.”
My father paused to stare at him as did my brother.
I studied them. Funny how even after all these years, I still knew them so well. They knew something about this. “Do you know of the Saints?” I had to ask.
“Si, we do, son. I’ve met Bones and Keys who run the two chapters. They work for a friend of ours. Nothing illegal really as far as I know. Mostly for security. But they are damned good at what they do. This, we do know. So if the Rebel Saints cannot find or defeat this Deacon, then he is a real danger for sure.”
“Wow, so that makes it a small world, doesn’t it?” Glory said. “You know the Saints and we know them as well.”
I glanced over at her, wondering what she was getting at.
