Suddenly, he was beside me, his icy barrel of the gun was pressed hard to my temple, and his hand covered my neck.
Zavi runs in and stops seeing as Matteo held me down at gunpoint.
"Let her live. Matt." Zavi seethed, his arms twitching by his sides as he contemplated what to do.
Zavi's hand slowly went to his gun.
Matteo's hand tightened around my neck causing me to cough."If I were you, I wouldn't want that."
"Matteo, you're a coward." I spat.
"Shut up," He growled, "I was waiting for the best time to strike."
I scoffed.
"Is this what you wanted?." I asked.
Matteo gave a sinister laugh, "You know what I want all my life."
"Shut up, I'm not talking to you, dickhead. Janie, is this what you wanted? You gave me to the bastard who killed our mother, why can't I trust all of my step-siblings?."
"No. I'm not like him, Nora." Her voice came, "You are used as leverage. That's all."
I blinked.
"Matteo, what the fuck do you want?." Zavi spoke slowly.
"Nice question." He answered as he spun to look at him, pulling me with him. I struggled under him, my heavy stomach bouncing all the time.
"Pull off that gun and push it to me or you know what happens."
Zavi slowly took his gun and dropped it on the floor. He slowly pushed it towards us and Matteo used his leg to push it behind him.
Zavi waited for his next command, his cool eyes never leaving mine.
"Let's go outside, shall we?."
Janie was the first to move as she pointed her gun at Zavi.
We walked outside my old house, there were dozens of armed men outside, all pointing their guns toward the house. We were surrounded by Matteo's men.
He pulled his hand into his pocket and took out a handcuff and threw it at Janie, she caught it right in the air and went towards Zavi.
Zavi's eyes went from angry ones to sad ones. That was when I understood what was happening.
They didn't want me, but they wanted him.
"No!!." I screamed, lunging towards Zavi.
But I was held right there and my protruding stomach was too heavy for me to kick, run or fight Matteo.
Zavi looked at me, with his handcuffed hands and said.
"I love you and them."
He was pushed in by a man, my eyes never left him.
Matteo whispered to my ear, "I'm gonna kill him now, it's the greatest way of taking my revenge."
He left me standing as they all got into the car, tears spilled into my eyes as I saw them hit the road.
"Zavi…." I cried.
No. They are gonna kill him, I want all of them to stop dying for me. Why him this time? Why not me? I've waited for the day Matteo was gonna come back, I've waited for my death, and he gave me a punishment worse than death.
The only thing truly worse than death was having the one person you loved ripped away from you.
I looked up, seeing different cars stop by the house. William and Irene stepped out of the car, running towards me.
"They took him." I cried.
Irene's hand flew on my shoulder as she helped me up.
"Get Mrs. Romano home safely. Let's go after them." Will commanded as half of our men went into the first car, Irene led me to the second and made me sit.
I sniffed.
"We'll find him, Nora." He muttered softly and left with the other men.
***
My anger and dread pooled through me as I paced around the room, my hand groping under my big belly.
How I wished Alec was here, he'd be saying, 'get your shit together, Nora. We' gonna find him.'
I know, I'm selfish, he's done enough for me, rest in peace Alec.
"Nora, sit your ass down, I'm trying my best."
I looked up at Irene, with anger flaring up my eyes.
"You're not trying enough. I know if it was Will, you could have gotten their location by now." I snapped.
Her eyes were raised at my words. She closed the laptop in anger, "Fuck you, Nora."
She stood up to leave and Will held her hand from behind.
I clapped my hands.
"No, allow her to leave. I can see the perfect friend that I have."
"You..all you know is to eat, sleep and talk while we do the dirty jobs for you. We lost Alec because of you, and now we gonna lose your husband too."
After she vomited those abominable words, I went straight to her and gave her a deafening slap.
"I never asked anyone to do those things for me," I screamed, tears running freely.
"Once we save him, I'm gonna shoot myself in the head."
Her eyes softened, and her arms went around my body instantly.
"I'm so sorry I said those words. I'm gonna give it my best, okay?."
I gulped down.
"I'm sorry too," I told her as she went out of the hug.
"We don't have all day, guys," John said from the door, he had his rifle raised over his shoulder as he stood there waiting for an order.
I pulled out my phone trying Jem's number.
She picked up at the second ring. "Hi, Mrs. Covillie."
"Hi, Jem. Can you supply more guns at this moment?."
"Right now?." She asked.
"Yeah. Like right now." I replied to her and ended the call.
I turned to John.
"Go see the guns and assemble every member of the family quickly."
"Yes, boss." He bowed and left.
I looked at Irene.
"Anything yet?." I spoke softly.
Her eyes were still dug into the laptop as her multiple fingers pressed into the keyboard.
"They're not in Italy. There's no signal yet."
Will shook his head, "He knew what he was doing by taking him out of Italy. He knew we were going to find them."
"I know where they are."
I heard a voice say from the door and we all looked.
My foster father was standing by the door, his eyes looking at us.
"Dad?." I called to be sure.
"I know where they are," He repeated.