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Helping Mr. Gang Leader.Chapter 32: restraining order? .“How did they take it? Me being here.”Dante lifted himself to sit on the countertop, but jumped down the second Gianna swatted at him with an angry expression on her face.“So, you’re one of those cooks,” Dante said merrily.Gianna told him, “Yes, I’m that rare breed of cook who doesn’t want another person’s butt where I’m going to put the ingredients that I’ll cook with, seriously who does that?. Will the wonders never cease?”.More than once Gianna had been told that her sarcasm and aptitude for unfunny jokes would be something that ended up alienating people. For years Gianna had tried to curb her thoughts, soften her reactions, and always, always, think before she ended up speaking about something.But there was something to be said for Dante who didn’t seem upset by her comments in the least. In fact, he seemed to find them delightful.The evidence was staring Gianna in the face as Dante turned his nearly naked body to
Helping Mr. Gang Leader people who aren’t invited are here
Helping Mr. Gang Leader.Chapter 33: people who aren’t invited are here .“This isn’t funny,” Rio pressed, and there was such ferocity in his words. “The last I heard on pain of death we were ordered to stay away from this princess.”“You’re a jerk,” Gianna said dully.“And if we did go near her,” Rio continued, turning his full attention to Dante, “we’d essentially better pack up and leave town. And now you two are having pajama parties? Am I violating the restraining order? Should I leave and maintain a hundred feet of distance?”Dante got to his feet, shoulders squared. “If that’s the kind of attitude, you’re going to have, I suggest you leave.”“I want clarification!” Rio argued. “Am I supposed to watch out for the doctor, or am I supposed to avoid her? Are you busy being emotionally constipated about your feelings, or have you wised up that a relationship is not what you need right now?”“And I suppose you want to tell me what I need,” Dante said back, furious.Rio shook his he
Helping Mr. Gang Leader No goodness of the heart.
Helping Mr. Gang Leader.Chapter 34: No goodness of the heart. . “Are you sure you don’t want at least one of us to go with you?” Angelo asked, straightening the collar on Gianna’s shirt.“Maybe we should all go,” Enzo said, looking indecisive. “We should present a united front.”Angelo shot back, “But we don’t want to scare anyone off.”“Guys,” Gianna tried.“Here,” Enzo said, thrusting a huge packet of paperclipped and stapled sheets of paper in a manila folder to Gianna. “This is our most comprehensive report to date, going back six months, encompassing everything from our financial data, to our projected expectations for the coming year.”Angelo’s fingers dug too tightly into Gianna’s collar. “Make sure you talk about what the neighborhood was like before we came along.”Enzo nodded almost frantically. “Sell the homicide rate and violent crime statistics like a virgin in a brothel.”Gianna’s head cocked as she gave him a look. “Did you just …”Enzo blushed. “Sorry. I just … we r
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Gianna wasn’t completely naïve.
Helping Mr. Gang Leader. Chapter 35: Gianna wasn’t completely naïve.. Chase withdrew his pocketbook, and from that came a crisp looking check.“This,” he said, sliding it over to Gianna, “is the firm’s way of thanking you for doing your part to better Sangrid.”Victoria nodded at her, and when Gianna picked up the check and peeked at the number on it, she tried not to look too startled. It was a more than nice donation.“If the trouble at the firm leaks,” Chase continued, “we ask that you give a few interviews about what the money means to you. Paint us in a good light, will you?” He gave the first sign of an awkward smile. “I promise you, the firm does good work. Most of us are trustworthy and hardworking. A few bad eggs have attempted to spoil the whole dozen, but that doesn’t mean we’re all the same.”Careful Gianna put the check in her own wallet for safe keeping, and she assured Chase, “That won’t be a problem.”“And,” Chase said casually, “we can talk at a further date about
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Saint Luke charm
Helping Mr. Gang Leader.Chapter 36: Saint Luke charm . Dante’s grandmother leveled a finger up at Dante threateningly. “You bring this beautiful girl into my restaurant. She is a doctor. She likes to cook. And you tell me she won’t be my daughter-in-law?”With dozens of people surrounding them, and chatter loud in the noodle house, Dante smiled sweetly at his grandmother and said, “I really like her, Granny. She likes me. How about we don’t rush things so maybe there’s a chance of that in the future?”She put her hands on her hips, considering his words for a second, then told Gianna, “You come and see me when you want to cook.” She called back to the kitchen to get started on their order, then told Dante, “The lion who waits for the noon hour, misses his chance with the gazelle which frolics in the morning dew.”She shuffled off and Gianna asked, “What is that supposed to mean?”It looked like Dante’s face must have been hurting from how hard he was smiling. “I think she’s just te
Helping Mr. Gang Leader one daughter squandering his medical degree and another running down by the docks no doubt with degenerate hoodlums
Helping Mr. Gang Leader .Chapter 37: one daughter squandering his medical degree and another running down by the docks no doubt with degenerate hoodlums. “I suppose I have you to thank for your brother’s growing disobedience.”Once, Gianna had thought herself a dutiful daughter. She had done as she was told, over performed in school, become a doctor, and withstood all the seemingly endless criticism her father had for her as she became an adult and started to make her own choices.Six months ago, Gianna wouldn’t have dared to contemplate ducking out of the scheduled lunches she took with her father regularly.But now?Truly for the first time in her life Gianna had thought long and hard about using her condition to feign sick, cancel on her father, and go spend time with Giovanni or Dante, or Ezekiel. Not to mention Jovani, who of all of Mariposa Gianna found herself falling into a natural ease with as the weeks passed.Gianna would have rather endured Rio, even.“Giovanni is an a
Helping Mr. Gang Leader a great price to save the only son he has
Helping Mr Gang Leader.Chapter 38: a great price to save the only son he has .“I won’t accept this,” Gianna’s father said sternly. “Your brother will give up this foolishness, he will go to college and study the material of my choosing, and I won’t hear of this again.”Curiously, Gianna asked, “How do you plan on achieving this?” There honestly wasn’t much, if anything, in the world that she thought could make Giovanni fall in line.The bigger issue was that Gianna had most certainly started out thinking that Mariposa was just a thuggish group of children, running around and causing mayhem for the fun of it. But a decent amount of exposure to them and what they did, not to mention the fact that Gianna was slowly starting to fall head of heels in love with their ridiculously handsome leader, produced a completely different picture.Mariposa was different. They weren’t like the other gangs that relished in violence and needless trouble through intimidation and worse. They wasn’t po
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Rio and Gianna
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 40: . The bus rumbled on, and with shaking fingers Gianna called the clinic next. She was going to be a little late … or a lot. And she couldn’t bring herself to care. Because as much as she loved the clinic, and had given it her heart and soul, Giovanni was the most important person in the world to her. And Gianna would not let their father use Giovanni. It was the first time Gianna was actually going to Giovanni’s apartment. She had been to Dante’s a couple of times, and she’d also gone to the apartment that Jovani shared with Ezekiel. From the outside, as Gianna moved swiftly towards the front door twenty minutes later, Giovanni’s apartment looked almost identical to the other’s. There was the same white door, the same blue trim, and the same well-kept patches of greenery that gave the apartment buildings splashes of life and color. Her impatience got the best of her at the foot of the stairs that led up to Giovanni’s second floor apartmen
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Helping Mr. Gang Leader .Epilogue: Time to start living .If six months ago, when Gianna had been worried that her father would pull funding for the clinic, and that they’d have to close their doors to an ailing public who needed them, anyone had told Gianna that not only would her clinic be surviving, but also thriving and expanding, she would have laughed and then likely wept.But with the summer heat beating down outside, Angelo sending post cards regularly, Harry a fulltime practitioner at the clinic, and full community support, the clinic was now officially relocated to a building that was three times its original size.It was a surreal moment for Gianna, walking through the front doors of the new clinic that was set to open in less than two days, looking around at what her hard work and dedication had finally landed her.Infinite being flushed out of the area, regardless of how it had happened and the part Gianna felt she played in it, was the best thing that could have happe
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Helping Mr. Gang Leader.Chapter 109: crying for the rest of my life .Maddox was in the apartment.Maddox was in a personal, private space that was supposed to be safe. And if he’d gotten past the men standing guard outside …Wiggling her toes a little against the water, Gianna asked quietly, “What are you doing here?.”She didn’t want to wake Dante. She couldn’t. If Dante came out here to where Maddox was with a gun, it would only put him in danger. Gianna couldn’t risk that. She wouldn’t.“It’s all gone,” Maddox eased out, moving forward fully into the light, gun raised to Gianna’s chest level. “It’s gone and it’s your fault.”“My fault?” Gianna questioned. She shook her head a little. “No. I …”“Clyde,” Maddox said morosely, more like a sad wail than anything else. “Clyde. He’s gone.”Gianna took that as confirmation that Clyde was likely dead.“I didn’t kill him,” Gianna said evenly.Maddox looked … worrisome. From where Gianna was standing she could see that Maddox’s eyes wer
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Maddox
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 108: Maddox .“Gia!”Gianna was jarred away from her conversation with Rio as Giovanni nearly barreled into her side, exclaiming, “This party is awesome!”“You just like it because of the food,” Gianna accused, but she gave Giovanni a playful nudge to the shoulder. “Go ahead and eat as much as you want. I hear that the person who’s supposed to be looking after your eating habits hasn’t been doing a good job.”Giovanni made a surprised squeak, damaged eyebrows going high. Rio scoffed.With the speeches over the floor was quickly becoming a small dancing area, music playing softly. It was a sure sign that the night was starting to conclude.Giovanni dashed back to the food table and Gianna turned to Rio, asking, “Do you want to dance?” She would have loved if Dante had been able to come. Truthfully, Gianna was a bit desperate to finally be able to show off the person who held her heart. But Dante had been extra busy with Axel lately, and she was tryi
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Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 107: Unrequited love: The most painful kind of love to be trapped in .There was something to be said for persevering through adversity.Because for the first time in a very long time, Gianna managed to have an amazing Christmas.Christmas time for Gianna was typically not a huge event. She knew a fairly large number of people who celebrated the holiday, both religiously and in the secular sense, but with Gianna’s reduced family size, there weren’t a lot of people to celebrate with. She might go to a party or two, and see Giovanni for a few hours, but that was it. Most years she bought Christmas presents for the people she knew—almost in a compulsive way, and received a few only from the people she tended to be closest with.When she’d been a child, it had been the house keepers and nannies buying both herself and Giovanni presents with a prescribed budget from their father. Gianna couldn’t remember the last time her father had handed her a pres
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Mariposa takes care of family
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 106: Mariposa takes care of family .For the first time in a while, Gianna saw some kind of amusement in her father’s eyes. The kind of emotion that Gianna thought had been carefully cut out over the years.“I’ve lied a lot over the past week and a half,” Her father said, looking Gianna in the eyes. “I lied about where my information about Infinite came from. I lied about Mariposa’s association with what happened. I lied about Mariposa’s identities. I lied about you being there at all, other than coincidentally, and I falsified information to make certain people disappear from the records. Not only that, I’ve … provided certain incentives to other individuals to make sure no important names ever come up or can be tied to this.”“Oh, dad,” Gianna sighed out, tears in her eyes.“Considering I deployed the national guard,” his father continued, “to offer back up to one gang over another in a conflict that spilled out onto the streets and ended up inju
Helping Mr. Gang Leader A medical mystery
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 105: a medical mystery .Gianna screamed. She screamed her throat raw until it was painful to even breathe, and then she kept screaming, eyes locked on Rio’s body.“Shut the fuck up!” Clyde demanded, stalking towards her, the gun still raised.No. Not Rio. There was no way Rio was dead. He couldn’t be.“I said shut the fuck up!”Gianna couldn’t. She couldn’t stop screaming. She wasn’t in control of her body anymore.Clyde fired off a second shot, inches from Gianna. The bullet imbedded into the ground and Gianna fell quiet maybe out of an inability to do anything else, more than the fear.“Christ! Finally.” Clyde let out a long breath.Gianna gasped out a sob, and then she was crying openly, reaching out trembling fingers for Rio.Blood was seeping out around Rio’s body at a slow crawl, but from the way he’d fallen Gianna couldn’t tell where the bullet had gone in. She couldn’t even properly address the injury. She couldn’t do anything but collapse
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Infinite bastards
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 104: infinite bastards .The moment she injected the morphine into herself, feeling the buzz of the drug kick in, chasing away the pain, she sighed in relief. It made her a little loopy, relaxing back against the bed in a useless kind of way, but she was so thankful to be free of the pain she’d felt constantly for a day, that it was worth it.And it was hard, so terribly hard, with how exhausted she was, and lonely and scared, but after that Gianna forced herself to sit up and keep going.In the other syringe she loaded a likely lethal dose of sedative. It was hard to tell though, even for a doctor, as Infinite employed various sized people. The dose she’d filled would kill someone like Donald, put someone like Clyde into a coma, and likely only knock out someone Hagrid’s size.She wasn’t looking to kill anyone, but if they sent Hagrid after her, Gianna couldn’t take the chance that a smaller dose would barely have any effect. Hagrid was strong, in
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Karma?
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 103: Karma? .When they locked her back in her room that night after the phone call, instead of taking her downstairs, it was absolutely clear to Gianna that they planned to use her as bait. They were going to dangle her out in front of Mariposa in the coming days and reduce her to mere fodder.Gianna, who cared more about Giovanni and Dante, and the rest of Mariposa, than anyone else in the world, was not willing to let that stand.She wasn’t just going to roll over and let things happen. Infinite had the advantage now, but Gianna was creative. She was creative, and above all else, she was desperate.So that night, using a pair of grooming sheers she found in the bathroom, she tore up the sheets on her bed. They were thick and of an extremely high quality, the kind of thread count that Gianna had grown up sleeping on. The best money could buy. But most importantly, it meant the material didn’t have much give. And she could wrap her ribs tightly an
Helping Mr. Gang Leader Gia is Mariposa now
Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 102: Gia is Mariposa now . “For Gia, right?” Giovanni asked, staring hard at Dante. “We’re going in for Gia, right?”And not for Maddox. The second half of the question was left off, but implied all the same.Rio said hotly, “If I come across that bastard, I’m going to take a shot.”“You’re not alone,” Ezekiel interjected.“Of course,” Dante said, voice going rough. “If any of us has the chance to end this by cutting the head off the snake, take the shot. But this is about getting Gia out. Leave Axel and his men to gun for Maddox. If we get Gia out, then we can hit Maddox later, on our own terms, and without him dangling someone we love over our heads.”Jovani leaned back, unease on his face, and said, “There’s one thing I’m really worried about.” He looked to Sal. “The cops.”“They could be a problem,” Sal agreed.“They will be a problem,” Jovani corrected. “They’re not just in Infinite’s pocket. They’re owned by Infinite. There isn’t a cop on th
