All Chapters of Taken by the Mafia King: Chapter 221 - Chapter 230

KillianDespite my decades of experience, the dozens of connections I’d made, and the roster of people I had firsthand knowledge of, I knew very little of Andre Bianchi’s righthand man, Mattia Greco.“I’ll tell you more about him later,” Caterina promised darkly before I left the kitchen.I still felt Sera’s stare burning into my back as I walked the perimeter of the massive property. Half an inch of snow covered the ground. Our boots crunched through it as we turned over every stone, checked every crevice, and scanned every inch of the landscape.While Adrian was busy with security and Patrick was bodyguarding the girls, the rest of my guys, including Tommaso, Alonzo, and Reggie fanned out to cover more ground, focusing on searching for footprints left in the snow. Pleasantly surprising, Sera’s brother Dustin had offered his help, and he was now combing through the line of half-bare hedges along the tall wall Sera once tried to climb over to escape.I hadn’t seen it firsthand, but Mi

Killian“Found something!” Tommaso had called.The search party ran to where Tommaso pointed at the ground. It had been snowing on and off for a while, but they were there.Footprints.Someone did break into the house.I walked in a slow circle to scan the area. We were near the backyard, the wall only a dozen feet away. There were footprints there, too. I knew none of my men had been in this area until now, and they weren’t Tommaso’s footprints. I gestured for the guys to follow me to it.“Dustin, get on my shoulders. We need to see over the wall if there was a way for the intruder to climb up to get over.”Though he looked unsure, Dustin obeyed. With Tommaso’s help, he climbed up to stand on my shoulders and pulled himself up a bit. He was able to peer over the wall that was at least a foot thick.He gasped. “There’s a fallen tree!”Fuck.I set Dustin down and began barking orders. “Reggie, you go check it out. Alonzo, call Adrian and tell him to check the cameras on the eastern sec

KillianThe day had been long and hard to get through, but when Sera slipped out of her pajamas, it didn’t take long to get hard in a different way.After trudging through the snow for a potential killer, after finding dead end after dead end, seeing, Sera’s face—her shining eyes, her smiling mouth, joy filling her every pore—was all I needed to melt away every stress.She was alive and warm and mine.I stripped off my clothes as Sera stepped into the shower and turned on the faucet. Steam from the warm water fogged up the glass, blocking my view of her perfect body.I stepped into the shower. I didn’t have time to react to Sera’s giddy laugh before the water stream turned ice cold.“Shit!” I snapped, stepping back just as Sera turned the water warm again. She was on the other side of the stream, biting her lip to stop from laughing. Something was making her mischievous. Instead of being mad at the playfulness, I played along. “You’ll pay for that, amore.”Like a switch flipped, Sera’

KillianA few days later, Sera somehow convinced me to do mobster work in her favorite parlor while Caterina and her friends looked through wedding catalogues. It was difficult to focus on dividing territory with Andre’s records finally organized with all the giggling, but it made Sera happy, and I couldn’t refuse her. Tommaso happened to walk by when she asked me to help her choose linen colors—demanded, more like—and he threw his head back with laughter.“The Hand of Death being ordered around by a little girl. I never thought I’d see the day.”“Keep mocking me,” I growled without malice, “and you won’t see the rest of it.”“We have another training session tomorrow, don’t we?” Sera called to him.Tommaso sketched a bow. “I wouldn’t miss it for the world, my lady.”Currently, the women were all sitting on the floor with catalogues scattered between them. Penelope was gushing over the collection of wedding dresses as she bounced baby Michael on her leg. Caterina watched them as if te

Killian“How’s the Roxy situation?” Tommaso asked twenty minutes into the drive, voice raised over the racing rain of the odd February thunderstorm.I put my thoughts of Sera on the back burner to focus on the job. While this was just a cut-and-dried mission, it still required undivided attention. “Caterina and Rosemary are still monitoring her. They took her to a doctor’s appointment yesterday. I think they determined the gender.”“But she confessed to having no contact with Greco, right?” Patrick piped in. “How’s she keeping herself busy all by herself, especially without a phone?”“She doesn’t have many hobbies except sleeping and doing puzzles, apparently. Caterina’s bought her at least ten, and she’s finished eight of them so far.”“I commend that woman,” Patrick tsked about Caterina. “It’s a little sad that Sera doesn’t know. Olivia and Penny know about it but Sera doesn’t? It doesn’t really feel right.”“Oh, yeah,” Tommaso said with amusement as we turned onto the highway, “are