Chapter 66
Nico
“Tony get our parents and Lucky’s we are heading down to the tunnels. We may be there a couple of days until I can figure out the next move. And I want a new team in. Aurora is working on her team; you will liaise with her.” I directly speak to Tony as he stands in front of me with a confused look on his face.
“What has happened? Why this sudden under siege tactic? What aren’t you telling me, Brother?” He places his hands on his hips.
“Lucky was shot at by Andrewkov, he is somewhere on the grounds, Aurora is out there, our control unit is trying to get eyes on him from above. Chances are since they can’t readily locate him, that he is already in the woodland area where he is covered by the density of the trees.”
“Fuck, are you serious?” He rakes his long fingers through his dishevelled hair. “Andrewkov, why would he do that? He has been with us a few years now.” He seems utterly confused by this latest snipped of information.
I glare at him, time is of the essence here and beside that, I am keen to get down to Lucky to make sure she is totally safe. Who knows what could happen down there, she is with Villessey, but how would I know if he has turned and has slit her throat by now? “I don’t have time to go into the details, Tony just do as I ask please.”
“Sure, on it. Meet you down there.” Tony goes to leave the office.
“One more thing, I do not want any of our protection down there, not whilst I don’t know who to trust. We have arms down there so we should be fine.”
“Got it,” he says as I watch his back as he leaves the office. My phone buzzes I check the id. It is Aurora.
“Yes?”
“My team is in place we have scouts in the woodland area. The place is nicely surrounded and secure. Nobody is getting in or out.”
“Good, thanks Aurora. We don’t who we can trust now, and I am concerned for Lucky down in the tunnels on her own with Villessey. Just because he led her in there doesn’t mean he isn’t holding her hostage.” I try to contain the anger in my voice and the turmoil of emotions cursing through my entire body.
“Okay well listen, Boss I have my men and women everywhere. All your original detail is now being shadowed, nobody can breathe without one of my team on them. You are safe.”
“For now,” I say as I start moving out of the office. I need to get to Lucky; I want to feel her safely in my arms again. The sooner we are out of here the better. It’s crossed my mind that this Yelena woman has a team of her own, fuck she probably has an army or at least whoever has hired her will have a strong group of men and women working alongside her. This isn’t a small operation and usually if there is one bad apple in the cart, there will be more. Now we need to figure out who else of my men is rotten too.
I will deal with each one of them personally. “Not far he could go, Boss. He can only get to the perimeter.”
“That’s the point, Aurora. If he gets that far then he can easily get out, nobody is going to question him.”
“Actually, I have alerted everyone, nobody will let him out alive.”
That is some kind of reassurance, I guess. “Make sure he is brought to the dungeon room; Tony and I will deal personally with him.” We sign off, as I head toward the kitchen and into the warm space. The cook looks up at me.
“We need everyone out and back to their cottages,” she nods without even questioning me, they all know the drill for if my property is threatened or under siege in any way. All my staff have a cottage of their own on the property at the back of my main residence there is a cluster of small units they live in.
She is not aware of the tunnel it’s not something I divulge. Only a handful of people have this kind of knowledge. Namely my parents, Tony, my brother Dario and a few of my selected bodyguards. Villessey being one of them, my heart is banging inside my chest cavity at the thought of him betraying me and being involved with Andrewkov and Yelena. I press the pad, and the island moves too slowly for my liking. I hear footsteps behind me and see my mother scuttling along as fast as she can with my father behind her. Tony comes next followed by Don Gianluca and his wife. God this is a fucking shit show.
How did my life go from running smoothly to being in this hellish situation and who the fuck is after me? At first, I thought Dario was involved but having spoken to him, I now know he is innocent. Talking of Dario, “Tony where is our kid brother?”
“Can’t find him, I’ve checked his room, the library, the lounge, the gym.” Tony sounds out of breath not surprising if he has been running around the property the size that it is.
“He must be somewhere, have you tried his cell?”
“Done that, no reply straight into answer.”
“For fuck’s sake, this is all we need.”
“Darling,” my mother says frantic, the concern evident in her grey-blue eyes the starkness of them fading with her aging years. “What is going on, and where is my baby boy?”
“Everything will be fine, Mother please just go down the steps carefully, I will explain later.”
“Yes, but we have never had to go down and use the tunnels.” God, I don’t have time for this now. I have to get to Lucky I am almost tempted to run down and into the tunnels and corridors and leave everyone behind.
“Tony go look for Dario, it’s unlikely he has gone out into the grounds. His counsellor must be around somewhere maybe she can spread some light on the situation.”
“She is nowhere to be found either, I think she left yesterday and isn’t due back for a few days.”
Irritation floods me, my stomach knots and I can feel my heart racing. “Mother, down the steps now,” I snap at her and instantly feel guilty.
Tony is giving me a look over my parent’s heads. The look that says you don’t suppose he is involved do you?