Page 100 of Stolen Kisses
She reached for me, but I just turned and walked away.
By the time I got outside most of our guys were standing. There were bodies all over the front lawn. A mix of some of our guys and Antonella grunts.
Fuck!
Fuck this shit! I was ready to explode in rage. The man sent a fucking bomb to my house. A bomb, a grenade.
This was far from over and Barabbas had another thing coming if he thought I’d be cowering in the corner like a little bitch.
Claudius and the guys came around from the corner of the house.
“The squads on it.” Claudius stated.
I just looked to him, my hands trembling.
“Hey man,” Gio began. “Cool off okay.”
“Cool off!” I couldn’t believe he could tell me that.
Cool off? I was mad as all hell, ready to breathe fire.
I whirled around and marched up the stairs to the bedroom where I found the open treasure box.
Maria had taken out all manner of pictures and shit from the box that was on the bed.
Alex went over to the computer and whistled.
“Holy fuck!” He cried and started tapping away at the keyboard.
I went over to join him, looking at the files. They all looked shady as fuck, there was absolutely enough to run Elliot Granger into the ground. Liaising with terrorists, rigging votes, and hiding evidence. This was all shit Christina had found.
It grieved me that she was mixed up with a man like that.
Jesus Lord.
“Maria knew it was him.” I said more to myself than anybody.
Claudius looked at me. “Dante, I’m going to tell you something you don’t want to hear.”
“What? What are you going to say?”
I was real interested to hear it.
“She was right. She was fucking right.”
My mouth dropped. “Are you kidding me?”
“Nah, I’m not. The doll said she didn’t know and you knew as much as her that Christina was seeing different people. She just chose not to tell you about one of the guys, because fucking hell Dante he is dangerous. I knew of Elliot Granger and knew he was just as bad as Barabbas if not worse. He’s government Dante. He was above us then and he’s above us now.”
“Would you have done what she did? Hold back information?”
“Dante, I’m not her, and there are few people like me. But honest to God, I would have done exactly the same as she did, because she’s acting now that she’s certain it’s him. We didn’t find out, we didn’t find shit and we weren’t going to. The names we got were like picking shit out of a hat and hoping for the best.”
Part of me wanted to hear him out, but the other part wondered why she couldn’t have just told me what she saw back then. She had still left it out.
No matter her reasons she had left something out and Elliot turned out to be the guy.
I just couldn’t believe that we could have been so close and she didn’t think she could tell me.
