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[Aldo] I’m just pulling up to the house when I check my phone again to see if Dawn has replied. I missed her call before, and all mine returning it have gone to voicemail since.It’s stupid because I’m just about to see her, and I’ve been telling myself not to overreact, but I can’t help but be on edge.I may have been overzealous in my responses during the last hour with a few panicked messages. All things considered, I hope she’s just napping.Which brings me back to why I’ve returned home.I kill the engine and grip the wheel with tender hands. We’ve got our first scan today.It’s huge. I’m still blown away by being a dad. I can’t wait. I can’t—My gut clenches up, and suddenly the temperature drops all around me.The door is wide open. What I’ve been fearing kicks in.“Dawn?!” I scream, getting out of the car. I know I’m probably being stupid.It’s just an open door… but I run into the house, screaming again and again. No one’s here. They’re not here. They’re—I hear a groan as I
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[Aldo]“Screaming isn’t helping anything along.” Luca retorts calmly.“Not that you tried!” I’m being childish. I’m freaking out.Luca looks me in the eye. “Aldo, calm down, or you'll say something you regret. What has happened? Exactly.” He emphasizes the last word heavily.“I got home, and the door was wide open. There was broken glass in the hallway. They’d tied up Isabella and threatened Dawn with having her go with them. It’s all about Andre.” My head hangs. “She tried to pay them off with her life savings too.”Luca’s face has darkened, especially at the mention of Andre. “Anything else?”“What else does there need to be?” I’m pacing back and forth now. I can’t breathe. Luca tries to slow me down. “Don’t fucking touch me. You kicked me out of this family, remember?”Luca keeps his hand raised, though. “But I did not stop being a friend.”“Fuck off with that shit.”“I will only remind you once again to watch how you speak to me, Aldo. I did offer to help Dawn.” He says.“And sh
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[Dawn]I snap back to consciousness in an instant, my body jolting from the final memories I have of being awake.We were driving along, and then this rag was over my mouth. I can still smell remnants of it on my hood. I can't see anything, but there's a light source somewhere in the corner.My heart rate jumps up into triple figures, and I can only think of my mom.“Mom?” I call.My hood is ripped off, and then the heart rate that had just doubled stops.Andre is kneeling in front of me.Alive.“What are you doing alive?”The Russians burst out laughing, and I look about the room.The Russian who was in charge in the house shrugs.“Mom is not here,” he grins. “She’s probably dead.”I highly doubt that. She’s probably with Aldo right now. But it’s Andre who flinches at that news.We’re in this tiny office that’s been transformed into a holding cell. There's a spring bed in the corner and no mattress.A bucket that reeks of piss. Andre looks absolutely horrible. He smells like he hasn’
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[Dawn.]I scream and try to jump away, but I’m tied to a fucking chair. Which my brain forgot. I feel a hand grab ahold of my foot. I kick harder and achieve nothing because of the ropes. Andre is screaming away, and the man pulls me back onto my feet. I smash down on all fours the right way up. The man, whose name I presume is Ilya, is smiling widely.“Too much fun,” he says. “I love families.”Andre stops bucking around for a second, and the two men hold him cautiously. The leader takes a final drag of his cigarette and puts it out on Andre’ foot. He flinches.“I haven’t even gotten to the good part. You see, while there were offenses caused by Andre here, what really rankled my boss was the debt. You see, the girl doesn’t know much, and she can’t really give the FBI too much without implicating herself, but it’s the principal. Anyway, the debt needed to be repaid. And Andre here assured me that he was going to come good. He weaseled a bit more time out of my already very generous
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[Aldo]As we drive to my apartment, Luca fills me in on everything Andre has been up to for the last five years.“And you knew?” I ask incredulously.Luca nods. “I knew once I began calling around after you returned. Leandro said he was looking into things on his end, but he encouraged me to do the same. Andre, it turned out, hasn’t exactly been subtle about trying to fix his debts with Alexei. He’s been to every loan shark in the city of New York; he’s pitched to many different teams about robberies, he’s stiffed over a few other families trying to trick people out of money…” he shrugs. “He’s been desperate.”I shake my head. Beyond the sense of betrayal from Andre, I also feel it for Luca. He’s let me run around like an idiot these past weeks… “So it was all a ploy to lure Alexei in?” I shake my head. “You let us drive up and almost get killed—”“No, no.” Luca cuts me off with a wave of his hand. “I didn’t know about them then. As I just said, I only began searching after Lean
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[Aldo]I take out my phone in desperation and call Dawn.Expectantly, it rings out.I pocket it and begin rummaging around the place. But it seems pointless. Surely if the bratva boys couldn’t find anything, what would we find? I suppose it depends on what they were searching for. I twist my lips and decide on my room first. It’s the same. Trashed and destroyed. Everything tipped out and, for no good reason, was piled on my bed so that it can be shit on. I leave it, knowing I’ll never stay here again.I head through and join Luca; he’s found a few sheets of paper that have been sandwiched between the bed and wall. He’s reading through them and hands one off to me. It’s a list of ideas to make money in messy handwriting. All I feel is pity for my friend and his desperation. He could’ve come to us for help. We should have offered more. He hands me another, and this one has an idea circled.Life insurance.I think back to us playing the games of NBA before the fight. He’d been reading
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[Dawn]Andre screams, the raw agony slicing through the thick air as blood begins spurting violently from his foot. I can almost feel the warm spray on my skin, but I don’t dare move. Ilya hasn’t just cut off his pinky toes, but also half of the next one. The sickening sound of flesh being severed fills the room, mingling with Andre’s frantic, breathless gasps.Ilya giggles—a sound so hollow and chilling it twists my insides. His laughter echoes in the small, suffocating space, making the walls feel like they’re closing in on us. Andre and I continue screaming, a mix of desperation and disbelief. I feel sick. Not from the pregnancy, no. That’s the least of my concerns right now. My stomach churns from the violence, the brutality of it all. I can’t look away, but every inch of me wants to.“Partly there, Andre,” Ilya croons mockingly.Andre is heaving haggard breaths, sweat pouring from his face, slick and gleaming under the flickering light overhead. His entire body trembles with pa
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[Dawn]I shake my head in amazement, my voice barely a whisper as the weight of everything settles in. “The people you hang out with.”His smile is mild again, a faint, almost absent curve of his lips. But it doesn’t reach his eyes.“What the hell were you thinking?” My voice cracks, the frustration bubbling beneath my skin. I can feel the anger rising in me, sharp and tight in my chest.He doesn’t meet my gaze, his eyes flitting to the floor, away from me. “I wasn’t exactly doing much of that.” His words come out dry, flat, like he's numbed himself to the situation. The tension in the air hangs heavy between us.“Why didn’t you just ask for help? Why didn’t you come to Aldo and me? Luca even? I’m sure he could’ve helped.” My voice is laced with disbelief, tinged with a touch of betrayal. I want to understand, but it’s hard. So hard.Andre keeps his eyes off me, his hands twitching slightly where they rest on his thighs, as if he can’t even sit still in his own skin. “You don’t know w
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