Page 79 of The Sting of Love
“Who is this?” I ask.
“Hello boss. You prick, I do believe you were looking for me,” it’s Mario.
The hair on the back of my neck stands to attention and I growl. “You motherfucker. Where the hell are you? I want your head.”
“I’m closer than you think prick. So much closer and you wouldn’t believe what fell into my hands as leverage. There I was thinking I had to break into your house to snoop around, but along came a beautiful kitty. Searching for you she was. Pretty raven haired girl with the big tits. Beautiful and slender like the willow tree. I see why you like her. I might have her all to myself and have a taste.”
Shock blasts through me and I throw a fist into the desk knocking the stack of paperwork to the ground.
No… this can’t be happening.
No.
He doesn’t have Willow. He can’t. It can’t be true. Not after everything I went through to keep her safe.
He can’t have her.
Not Willow.
When I recall how he grabbed that woman the other week and shot her I know he won’t hesitate to kill Willow. He’ll kill her to get to me.
“You fucker. Let her go!” I shout.
“Funny thing is this… I’m not doing shit, or thinking of doing shit until I have what I want. I want the memory stick with the intel. What you downloaded from my computer. I want it.”
“How the fuck do you know about that?” I don’t see how. Everyone in the room that day were people I could trust.
“Xiou has a hacker. I know you wiped the files, but before you did that you saved them first on an external drive. I know and I want my private property back.”
“Afraid I’ll ruin you?” I challenge knowing that has to be his main worry.
There’s so much I can, and will, do with that list. When the people on the file find out they’ve been screwed all six ways to Sunday, and it’s Mario’s fault, they’ll skin him alive and make sure he suffers a slow painful death.
“Don’t test me Donny. Don’t do it. I’ll snap your girlfriend’s pretty little neck and drop her at the bottom of the sea. I’ll do it. I mean it. I’m a man of my word.”
“I will kill you, you dumb fuck.”
“Your words are just empty threats. Xiou will be waiting for you at the edge of the cliff in fifteen minutes. Come if you want her to live. Bring the memory stick and come alone, no funny business or she gets it. You understand me?”
I seethe, gritting my teeth. “I got it.”
He hangs up ending the call. I pick up a paperweight and lunge it into the wall smashing it.
Mario and Xiou have Willow. They have her.
I don’t make deals like this and these types of deals are the kind that could get me killed if Claudius ever found out. It’s a deal with the devil, assuming there is a deal. He never mentioned anything about giving Willow back to me. For all I know…she could be dead already.
No… fuck. I need to get a grip. I need to get my act together and get a fucking grip.
I have the memory stick in the safe over in the corner by the standing lamp. With a heavy sigh I march over to and get it. I don’t know how this is going to play out but I can’t allow him to hurt her. I can’t do it.
I love her.
That’s the answer to everything.
I love her.
Chapter Twenty-Four
