Chapter 158
Chapter 158
Nico
Whilst Lucky is busy being the BOSS LADY, I am back in Atlanta at the safe house where Yelena has been moved to. Her scars are beginning to fade gradually but she will always be maimed for live. Good for the hell she put us all through, mostly my beautiful, crazy, wild wife. God help us with the child we will have. It’s going to be one helluva firecracker and if it’s a girl - she is grounded until she is thirty at least.
We have opted not to have the gender test, purely because we both want it to be a surprise and also, to us it does not matter so long as our baby is healthy and comes out screaming and kicking. It makes my heart soar knowing that we are having a baby in six months’ time. I am going to spoil mother and baby rotten, that’s for sure. My heart has been on cloud nine since Lucky told me three months ago. And now I cannot wait until our baby arrives into this world.
Aurora meets me as I enter the small property. It’s discreet in a rundown neighborhood where nobody will bother looking. There are no neighbors since I own both properties on either side.
“Hi, Boss. All good?” she asks. I nod. “And Lucky? How’s that baby inside doing?”
“All well, thanks Aurora. How’s the bitch in here doing?”
“Going bat shit crazy because we won’t let her out. I’ve been monitoring all the security around your properties, offices and Arizona where Lucky is. So far so good. Nothing out of the ordinary.”
It seems doubtful that after nearly four months anyone is out to get either of us, but you never can be too sure. The words Yelena spoke to me back then about having a target on my back, sit uneasy in the back of my mind.
However, being locked up here not able to go anywhere except the back yard, keeps her away from any means to make the call. If she has a call to make that is. She could be full of shit. They usually are. Still, I keep everything tight with our detail and Lucky knows the drill. Three guards at all times.
“Coffee, boss?” she asks.
“Yeah, make it strong. Late night on paperwork then flying from New York to here.”
“And Barbados, Petrov?”
Aurora and I haven’t had much time to catch up since I decided to surprise Petrov. I didn’t go straight away of course; I had to go straight to Arizona to celebrate with Lucky on the conception of our baby. And what a night that was. I can’t think about all the hot and steamy things we did right now, otherwise I’ll be showing a tent in my pants.
“Let’s just say he was surprised for me to turn up with my detail on his doorstep. A sharp blade to the jugular usually does the trick. Who knows if he has something else up his sleeve. He gave me his word he would back down once and for all. I suggested he try harder.”
She nods. Dressed in her usual black from head to toe, she places a pod in the machine and presses the button. I can see from the kitchen window, Yelena in the yard smoking a cigarette. Her hair now inches of dark roots, her back still, however, ramrod straight.
“So, boss what are you going to do with her?”
“To be honest, Aurora. I have no fucking idea. She’s my blood. I can’t just put a bullet to her head even though by now she’d probably prefer that than being caged up here like an animal.”
I take the coffee once it’s ready and blow on it then take a sip. “And I never spoke to my father. What is done is done. I can’t look at him in the same way anymore. To know he practically raped a young woman makes my stomach churn. My own flesh and blood. It disgusts me.” My voice has taken on a hard edge. Aurora nods.
“I can imagine, Nico. We have to do something with her. We can’t keep her locked up here forever. I need to be back out there doing my job, Boss not babysitting a fucking cunt like her.”
It’s true. I need Aurora back out in the field with the men she has here with her keeping an eye on Aurora.
“You could send her away,” she suggests as she leans with her back against the porcelain sink, her ankles crossed one over the other.
I run my hand over the stubble on my chin. “I could but she’d still need to be watched and be away from technology. I don’t trust her, Aurora. That’s the thing yet I can’t bring myself to end it.”
“You could always give her a pill.”
I could it’s true. Yelena could do it all herself then but deep in my mind and heart, as much as I hate the fucking bitch – she is still part of my flesh and blood. Santangelo’s don’t kill each other.
“Boss,” Aurora breaks through my thoughts. “She isn’t really family; she is the result of an act by your father. Nothing more nothing less. She tried to kill you and Lucky. You have to keep it rational, Boss.”
Dammit, but she is my father’s child too!