Page 43 of Nikki Sinatra: For Her Lover
She didn’t even hesitate. “No, I’m good,” she said, and Teddy laughed. But Nikki was confused. She was always amazed at how a woman as badass as Roz, who bossed everybody around and didn’t take anybody’s crap, rarely ever defied an order from Mick.
Mick stood up. Everybody else, except for Roz, did too. “Handle it,” he said to Nikki. “The death of my men cannot go unpunished.”
“They won’t, sir,” Nikki said.
Mick gave her that assessing look he often gave her, and then he turned to leave. “Keep me posted,” he said.
“Yes sir,” Nikki said, relieved that she and Teddy would have free reign. But as she turned to Teddy to exhale, and as Mick turned to leave, a sudden blast of gunfire could be heard on the outside of Mick’s home: the only home on that entire street.
As soon as they heard the gunfire, they all reacted.
Mick began pulling out a weapon in a drawer near his office door while Teddy and Nikki, pulling out their own guns, began running behind him.
“Get the children inside,” Mick ordered Teddy as he and Nikki ran toward the front door and Teddy ran toward the back door as grounds security were running the children inside.
“Put’em in the safe room,” Teddy ordered security as he began running out behind Mick and Nikki.
“Mommy, what’s wrong?” Jackie was asking as Roz took Kimmie from out of her arms. Grounds security began hurrying them to the safe room.
The gunfire was outside of Mick’s eight-foot security gate and he and Nikki and his remaining grounds security, coming in all directions across the property, were running for the gate. Nikki beat them all to the button and pressed it with a hard slap.
As soon as the gate opened, they could see a car burning rubber getting away from there. One of the guards at the gate was shot and on the ground, while the other one was dead.
Nikki caught a glimpse of the driver as the getaway car was speeding away. “That’s him!” she cried. “That’s him!”
She began running behind the fleeing car and firing repeatedly at it. Grounds security was firing too. But it was already too far away to be hit.
The second vehicle in the ambush was riddled with bullets and was just coming to a stop a couple hundred feet away from the gate. This vehicle hadn’t had a chance to turn around and flee the way Emilio was able to do. Mick ran for that vehicle as Nikki and grounds security were running back toward the gate.
Mick tossed his key fob to Nikki. “Get my ride!” he yelled at her, and she ran back inside the gate as Teddy was running out.
“He was here,” Nikki said to Teddy.
Teddy was stunned. “Emilio?”
“He got away,” Nikki added as she ran. “Gotdammit, he got away!”
Teddy, stunned, ran behind his father to the second vehicle.
When Mick made it up to the second car, he could barely see inside for the bullet holes in the glass. With their guns still drawn, Mick busted the passenger window out with the butt of his gun. The glass shattered.
“Anybody alive, Pop?” Teddy asked as he ran up.
Mick saw that all four men were dead. “None.”
“Recognize any of’em?” Teddy asked as he ran up beside his father.
“None,” Mick said again.
Teddy looked and didn’t recognize any of them either. “Nikki said Emilio got away.”
Mick looked at him as if he was insane. “Emilio? That motherfucker came tomyhouse?”
“That’s what Nikki said.” Just as Teddy said it, Mick’s Escalade flew out of the gate with Nikki behind the wheel. Mickand Teddy ran to the vehicle. Mick hopped on the front seat and Teddy hopped on the middle row and Nikki sped down the street where Emilio had fled. Grounds security was already helping the wounded capo. The others began the cleanup of their own deceased men and the gunmen in that second vehicle. Even they couldn’t believe that men they knew weren’t in any of the major syndicates would have the balls to launch an attack directly on Mick’s estate. As if they were some unbelievable dumbasses that had no clue what fire they were playing with.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Nikki knew that Emilio’s car had made a left hand turn so she turned left too. She sped along the highway as Teddy called for Marco to get to Mick’s house to supervise security and protect the family. Mick was looking hard for Emilio’s car.
