I shook my head. “Nice try sexy, but business first. Thenotherbusiness later.”
“Oh for fuck sakes. Gag me.” When we both turned to glare at Lorenzo, he made a gagging face. Asshole.
I looked at him, narrowing my eyes. “Are you helping me Lorenzo, or Aria?”
He looked back and forth between us, then sighed, looking away. “I’ll get you what I have, Maximo.”
Aria tensed in my arms, acting like she was going towards him, when I gripped her.
“Youstronza, Lorenzo!”
I snorted. “You just called your favorite cousin a bitch, Aria.”
She turned and glared at me. “He deserves it.” She turned to him and muttered, “Traitor.”
Lorenzo turned and glared at her. “Well excuse me if I want you alive,stronza!”
“Lorenzo, you go ahead and go. We’ll talk later, make a plan with Dom.”
Lorenzo appeared agitated. “No worries Lorenzo. I will tell him exactly what you have been telling me. That you and Aria know Geronimo, and he helps you out sometimes.” I turned and faced Aria, who looked at me, tense. “No one else needs to know who he is. I wouldn’t risk it.”
Her eyes softened. “Thank you, Maximo.” I leaned down and kissed her lips softly.
Anything formifamiglia” And I smiled.
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I called a meeting with Dom, Carlo, and Lorenzo. Once we were all together, they had asked why Lorenzo was present.
I kept it simple. “He and Geronimo do each other favors.” Not entirely a lie, but I was not about to disclose who Lorenzo was to these men. Even though Dom and I were pretty connected now after taking down Don Sanchez and Aria’s connection to Sophie, I wouldn’t risk anything directly affecting my wife. And anything that touched Lorenzo, affected my wife. “It’s how we got the information we have.”
Dom looked shocked and Carlo looked impressed.
Damn,cabrón,that must be an honor.”
Lorenzo looked a bit uncomfortable so I redirected the conversation back on point.
“Based on the information we got, that little bitch is trying to recruit the Fire Dragons MC.”
Dom snapped, “What the fuck?”
“Apparently Nico is feeding them that he has a beef with you to get them onboard. The goal is to take out you and your clansmen, so then he could go after me, and therefore my wife. The fucking cunt!”
“What do you need from me, amigo?”
“Carlo, I just need you on standby. I don’t think we will need you or your men, but it would be nice to have extra backup.”
Carlo nodded. “Anything,amigo. That fucker went after you at your home. Pussy shit!”
"He went after my woman, so I'm taking him down." I turned to Dom. “We got whisper that Nico will be trying to reach out for a meeting with you, maybe try to make an alliance against me.” I rolled my eyes as Dom laughed his ass off. I shrugged. “I have a feeling it will be soon too because Sophie is so far along in her pregnancy. He’ll think he can intimidate you, by putting pressure on you because of her ‘delicate state.’ Either that or he will encourage you not to get involved with his shit with me because of her pregnancy.”
Carlo spoke up. “Damn, thatbendejois cooking up all kinds of plans.”
“He is both smart and dumb. The plan will be to allow him to set up a meeting with Dom, and we will just naturally show up as well.” I smirked.
I hadn’t been this excited for some action since I had to meet with Don Sanchez along with Dom. When we met him a few weeks ago, I was simply going along as support to Dom until Aria had approached me. She wanted to go to “have a conversation with thatstronzo.” I made sure to go in her place. Aria had not elaborated on why, but when I spoke with Dom about Sophie’s family he had been pissed. Told me about the beatings when she was younger. Her sister had been worse with the beatings which was why when Dom called me up just before the meetingwith Don Sanchez to ask for a favor of sending her to Raphael’s brothel, I had not hesitated one bit.
Aria had thanked me for sending Serena to Raphael with a special costume. A nurse’s costume. Not that there was much to the costume, with its lace bra and panties with garters, but she had on a nurse’s hat and a stethoscope around her neck. Loved my gift.