MaxWe went over the conversation that we had with Orlando Travisano at the party and to say Ballandini wasn’t happy would be an understatement. Not that I blame him. I know how pissed I felt about someone wanting Ivy dead. I can only imagine how her own father was feeling.“You ready for this?” Nico asks from beside me. I look at him and nod. Standing outside the location for the meeting meant that we had played everything right but there was still a lot to get through. They had to believe that we wanted Ivy dead too. Had to believe that I would gladly kill her. Their trust was the only way I was going to be able to find everyone that wasn’t loyal to Ivy. I wouldn’t fail her. It wasn’t an option.I point at the door, “Do the knock,” I tell Nico as I rub my temples. I can feel a headache coming on.Nico knocks in the coded way that we were instructed and then we wait. It takes five seconds for someone to open the door. The hulking man steps out and crosses his arms, glaring at us both
MaxA party. “Fuck,” I swear under my breath as I button my suit jacket up. I have to pretend to not be with Ivy, which is only one thing I’ll hate about tonight. I haven’t had her near me for a whole two hours and I’m not liking it. I want her in my sights at all time.“Her dad has people watching her,” Nico reminds me for probably the tenth time since I separated from Ivy.“Tellme you’re not worried about Gia,” I raise an eyebrow at her.“Touché.” I run a hand down my face and begin pacing. “Calm down though, you are making me nervous, and we all need to be on our game tonight. As you pointed out, I don’t want anything happening to Gia anymore than you want something happening to Ivy.”“You’re really falling for her, huh?”He nods, “Best arrangement ever.” I can tell he is trying to hold back a smile so I smile wide at him so he just gives in. In our word a lot of men don’t want to show they care or love their families. Sometimes it’s because they don’t want to look weak and other t
IvyI want to rip Sienna’s hands off my fucking man so bad. I swear that this better be the end of this situation because if he has to pretend to be into her one more time, I will kill her.“Oh look, the future Capo’s twin sister is here,” Max says in a snarky voice. I glare in his direction. I’m trying to catch the hoe’s hand on fire but to everyone else, it looks like I’m glaring at him.“Oh, look the worst sniper we have. Why are you still here?” I walk past his fake date toward the bar. I feel him pinch my ass a little as I pass him.My wonderful brother decides on that second to come into the room, Arianna on his arm. The girls rush to each other and start giggling together. Gia is already rolling her eyes when I look her way.“You two are lucky sons of bitches,” Orlando says to my brother and Max, throwing an arm over each of their shoulders. “Theres none hotter.” I gag, out loud, when he looks them up and down a couple of times. “Something to say, Baldracca?” My hands around hi
MaxI don’t even think to pause to knock on Ivy’s door, I just open it and barge right in. When the party guests started thinning and I saw her slip up the stairs, I downed the drink in my hand and followed.When the door opened, she was standing there, in just a dark purple lacy bra and panties set and the cute little heels I saw peeking out from under her dress whenever I looked long enough throughout the night.“You look like you were expecting someone,” I smirk at her.She shrugs, “Just some guy I might have fallen a little bit for,” she pinches her thumb and pointer finger together. I chuckle. “Shut the door. My parents might have their room on the other side of the house, but my sister's room is two doors down.”I slam the door, grateful that there are still guests here, so they haven’t shut the music off. I wouldn’t doubt that if Vincent heard the door slam, he would rush to his daughter’s rescue. Even though there is nothing and no one that will be able to save her from me.I
IvyWaking up to Max kissing me was heaven. He started at my shoulder and moved across my back. When he got to the middle of my neck, I shivered and gave away that I was awake.“Morning.” I could feel Max’s smile against my skin.Rolling over, I smiled wide at him. “Good morning. Sleep good?”He nodded. “Every night with you in my arms is better than good. It’s the best thing ever. I love you,” he leaned in and connected our mouths. I moaned and tried to push him onto his back so that I could straddle him. But he overpowered me, and I ended up on my back, our lips never leaving each other. He moved across my face to my neck and down it. I moved it to the side so that he had better access.“Max, we have to be quick. I have a lesson with my dad in an hour and I can’t smell like you and sex,” I laughed. It had been two weeks since my dad had let Max start staying here and I was enjoying it. Every morning we rolled around in bed and then whenever we could throughout the day. I feel asleep
MaxMy phone beeped, letting me know I received a text. I read it then handed my phone to Vince. “He wants to meet,” I tell him. He nods his head as he reads the text before handing it back. “What do you want me to reply? I want this over with.”He looked over at his second in command, Domenico, who shrugged. “I say you meet him, and we just round up whoever is with him. We can get the others out later. If we take down the little faccia a culo, the others will be rattled at least a little and they will back down.”We all looked from one person to the other. It looked to me like they were agreeing with him. Part of me did too. Another part though, wanted my woman to start her reign with no one against her. Hard to do in our world but at least I could hope for her not to have any rats in her house.I sent the text telling Orlando that Nico and I would meet him wherever he wanted. He sent back a reply immediately. My head shot up, “He wants me to bring my rifle,” I told the room.“He is
Ivy“Will you stop,” Gia groaned as I passed her for the thousandth time. “Everything is going to be fine.” I didn’t believe her and the look I gave her hopefully said that. “They know what they’re doing.”Max and Nico had left nearly two hours ago. Twenty minutes later, my dad left with some of his men to provide backup if needed. That’s when I had started to pace. The idiot, Orlando had asked the guys to meet him in the same place as they had before, amateur. Luckily that meant that they didn’t have to go over a new exit strategy. That was what Max had said anyway. It was supposed to calm me down. It didn’t.“Why haven’t we heard anything?” I threw my head back and looked up at the ceiling. This was torture. My dad was bad enough. I was always worried when he went out himself on missions of any kind. But put him in this situation and then add Max, I was going to explode if I didn’t hear from one, or both of them very soon.The door to my dad’s office opened and my mom walked in a sm
Max Four days. Ivy would be my wife in four. Fucking. days. I was happy, excited, and mostly… scared? Nervous? I don’t know. I wanted this to work. We were changing tactics at the last minute though and I wasn’t sure about what was going to happen when Orlando found out. I knew that Vince was a great leader and that his plans always worked out in the end so I trusted that this would work. He would never put his family in more danger than they already were. “Wow, man. That’s awesome, right?” Nico asked me after I updated him on the situation. I nodded my head. I was still in my head thinking about how it would play out. “Why so down then?” Sighing, I looked at my best friend, “I wanted it to not be rushed. I wanted her to have the wedding of her dreams with no craziness surrounding it. And more than anything I’m worried.” “About…” I stood up and paced the room. I thought about his question. What was I worried about? Orlando? I know we can take him and the small army that we know a