Page 15 of Don't Fall For Her
“You don’t need to know. What you do need to know is that if you decide to be a hero, you’re fucking dead.”
Armando laughs. “You think you can take me out? I’d like to see you try.”
The attendant puts the gun in Armando’s face. I can’t help the tears that start to fall. Armando doesn’t even flinch.
“Don’t be a fucking hero,” he says as he hits him in the head with the butt of the gun.
Armando wipes the blood that’s dripping down his face. Then he takes my hand and pulls me close to him. We follow the attendant off the plane with the pilot coming up behind us.
“If you make a scene, we’ll be forced to do something you won’t like. So play it cool and we’ll all be happy in the end. Got it?” the pilot says to us.
I look up at Armando and I watch him slowly nod. I know he has some kind of plan. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about my Lake Renegade family is that they always have a plan. I just wish I knew what it was. I’m so fucking scared right now. Armando squeezes my hand.
We walk into a side entrance and into a room.
“Sit down, shut up and wait for someone to come back and get you.”
Armando and I sit and watch them leave the room. He gets his phone out and sends some texts.
“They’re pretty dumb to leave us with our phones,” I whisper to him.
“I think they’re banking on us trying to call for help. I don’t know who they’re really after so I don’t want to take too many chances. I just texted my papà, he’ll let the rest of the family know what’s going on. Right now we need to get out of herewhen they come back. The problem is I don’t know where we are.”
I move my chair closer to Armando.
“When they come back, just follow my lead. We’ll find a way out of this.”
“Okay,” I say as I watch the door.
CHAPTER NINE
Levi
After what feels like hours, Enea Mancini walks into my room. He’s not only Giovanna’s dad, he’s the head of the Chicago Mafia. He hugs everyone in the room, including me and Tristan.
“So I got a call from Elio Salvadori. He said he got a message from Armando. They’ve been taken hostage by the pilot and the attendant on the flight. We don’t know who they are or why they’ve taken them. Armando said he and Felicity are both okay, but they’re threatening to shoot him if he doesn’t do what they say. We’re working on figuring out who they work for. This pilot was a last minute substitute because our regular one couldn’t make it. The company we use vets their pilots and staff. I don’t even know how they’d know who was on the flight.”
Enea’s phone rings and he steps outside to answer it.
“Holy shit, that man is scary.” Tristan laughs. “I feel sorry for your husband.”
“Declan said that when he first met my papà.” Giovanna laughs. “Wait till you see all the other men in our family.”
“I thought I was a big guy…sadly, now I know I’m not.” Tristan pretends to cry just as Ares Athanasiou walks in. “Holy fuck.”
We all laugh.
“I was told to come down and keep watch,” Ares says.
“Who’s with Raven?” Giovanna asks him.
In the family, all the women have bodyguards. And Ares is one of them. He’s also a polar bear shifter, it’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
“She’s with Salvatore today, helping him figure out what's going on.”
“I wish we knew more. This is frustrating,” I say to Ares.
“When I was leaving, they were talking to the Minneapolis airport police. Hopefully they can locate them.”
