Chapter 2 Prologue 2

“You know your husband eh…

I've taught him several lessons, yet, he doesn't want to back off!

This time, I'll take what's rightfully mine!”, Luigi said, getting Luciano's attention.

If there were levels of shock, Luciano was going through every one of them as he heard his uncle's last sentence.

“What do you mean?! How can you say such a thing when you know he loves you to death?!”, Isabella asked, also confused by the turn of events.

She would have never thought Luciano's uncle would kidnap them, or even say the kind of words that were coming out of his mouth.

“Oh shut up you wench! What do you know?!”, Luigi asked angrily as he began pacing the room.

“Are we moving out now!?”, Andreas asked, since Luciano already ordered the men to be ready.

“No, not yet, I want to hear what he has to say!”, Luciano answered.

He had opted to delay their sweep time as they already had their location. Luciano was intent on hearing what his Uncle was about to say.

Luciano understood that might be his only chance to hear his uncle's hate and resentment directed towards him.

“Yes Don!”, Andreas answered, sending out orders for the men to stay on standby.

“The entire thing he controls! Every damn thing!

It was all supposed to be mine!!!!!!!”, Luigi screamed as he came to a halt in front of Isabella.

“How does that have to do with me and my baby??!!! Huh?!?! We don't know anything about whatever both of you have going on!!!”, Isabella said, equally raising her voice.

“Shut up, you don't get to shout when you speak to me!”, Luigi said as he grabbed Isabella's jaw violently.

“Don!”, Andreas called out seeing Isabella’s face in pain.

“I'm aware Andreas! I'm waiting for him to give something up!”, Luciano answered as his heart clenched.

Seeing his uncle hurt Isabella didn't sit well with him.

“You and this damned baby matter to him! So I'm going to kill you right before his eyes! Then I'm going to kill him too!”, Luigi confessed.

Sophia turned fussy hearing the commotion and sensing her mother was in discomfort.

“Shut that damned baby up!”, Luigi ordered as he kicked Isabella's legs violently.

Tears already running down both their cheeks, Isabella brought her baby tighter to her chest, shielding her from the noise.

“He's going to kill you! You bloody bastard!”, Isabella fired, earning a resonating slap from Luigi.

“Shut up you bitch! I'll be the one to do all the killing, like I did his parents! !”, Luigi said.

Luigi started, “I should have been next in line when I killed his parents…!”

As he went on, Isabella wondered how Luciano could love this man so much and said the man would still resent him.

Isabella shook her head as she wondered how Luciano would act discovering this side of his uncle.

He continued, “I should have! But my father! That bitch of a man wouldn't let me have what belonged to me.

He turned everyone against me!

Then I had to pretend, pretending to be happy when the wench you call your husband comes around.

I have been against him this whole time!”

“How could you?!”, Isabella asked, wondering why Luigi had chosen to be that cruel.

Going as far as to unalive his blood brother.

“Oh, I definitely could!

I was behind everything! Me! And I'll continue to be till I get what I want!!!!”, Luigi said, raising his voice again.

“How can you do this to him?!”, Isabella asked

“I've been doing this for years! A few more days wouldn't hurt now would it?!”, Luigi asked as he let out a sinister laugh.

Isabella patted Sophia’s back, realizing that Luciano's uncle was a maniac.

“I already sent a message, I'll expect your damned husband to be here anytime soon! Then the bloodbath will begin!”, Luigi said as he left the room, banging the door loudly behind him.

Andreas looked towards Luciano to see his jaw tick.

Luciano's blank expression masked the shock and anger he felt at the moment.

As if on cue, another one of Luciano's men arrived with a box.

One nicely wrapped like it was a birthday gift.

Andreas took it, opening it to see nothing but a picture of Isabella and Sophia.

Gently passing the picture to Luciano, Andreas wondered about the thoughts going through Luciano at the moment.

Luciano traced the lines of his lover and daughter, the anger he felt only growing rapidly.

He simply flipped the picture to see his uncle's handwriting.

Luciano read the address written on the back, one of the tech guys confirming the building.

“If he's serious about everything he said, do you think he's been the one sabotaging the operation from within?!”, Andreas asked.

“Venice! He's the one behind it!”, Luciano said after what seemed like minutes.

“Shit!!”, Andreas said in realization.

“I had all the clues but I failed to piece them together!”, Luciano said as his mind went back to the suspicious activities his uncle always indulged in.

Who would want to think of their uncle in such a light?

“He was so good at hiding his plans!”, Andreas said.

“I always thought he made peace with my position as The Don!”, Luciano said.

“What does that mean?!”, Andreas asked, quite confused.

“He killed my parents for the same reason!”, Luciano answered as he approached the bulletproof vest and the guns on another table.

He continued, “The operation has a certain way it works, Andre.

It is passed to every firstborn son.

As the second son, it didn't sit well with him!”, Luciano answered.

“Why didn't he just take over when your parents died?!”, Andreas asked again, passing extra bullets to Luciano.

“My Grandfather at the time didn't support it! Now, I'm sure he was the one who killed my parents!”, Luciano said, disgust forming in his heart for his uncle.

“He's held a grudge for over twenty years!”, Andreas said as he put the pieces together.

“He shot himself in the arm to make it look believable didn't he?!”, Andreas asked.

“I had treasured a maniac the whole time!”, Luciano simply answered.

“I'm about to end it all!”, Luciano said as he stepped out of the building.

“You coming?!”, He asked Andreas who didn't hesitate to grab his gun and follow behind him.

On their way out of the mansion, Luciano said to Andreas, “Remind me to get an ice cream making machine in the mansion!”

“Yes Don!”, Andreas said.

It was now clear what Luciano had to do.

He now understood he was the one to put his uncle down.