Chapter Fifty Nine

They looked at each other and nodded it was time to take Roberto down, he had made a lot of enemies since taking Dante’s ‘family’, his treatment of the rest of the Mafia Dons had been appalling and they wanted revenge. Dante’s men surrounded the villa at nine-thirty, the other Dons made their way to the room where the auction was being held and stood around waiting. They did not speak to each other save for acknowledging with a nod of the head, Roberto watched carefully counting as each one joined,

‘Get out there and mingle I want to know the minute Dante appears, keep the champagne flowing, get them tipsy, alcohol will loosen their tongues and their wallets.’

He practically threw Manuel out into the room and strode across to where he was holding Gabriella she glared balefully at him and he laughed,

‘It would have been nice to keep you little firebrand, nice to force you to obey me and make you do all the things I wanted.’

He pinned her against the wall and pushed his knee between her