A resigned sigh sounded. "Two."
The girl smiled and nodded as she came down the stairs. "Such potential and you let it get swallowed by your pride and ignorance. I don’t get it."
"I’m going to ask one last time. What are you fucking talking about?"
The Capowas angry being excluded from the conversation and kept in the dark when he was the most important person in the room.
"There were never three waitresses in the restaurant. There were two and Lynette. After Inéz told me something along the lines that nothing is as it seems it got me thinking. I checked all the documents and saw the schedule of the workers. There was an hour gap between the time when one of the waitresses finished her work and when the other one was supposed to start. But three was the usual number so no one questioned it when she came there and pretended to be a worker. Anastasia wouldn’t have realized it because no one ever suspects women to be involved in the business." His eyes moved to his brother. "Lynette is the assassin we have been looking for."
To say that no one expected this turn of events would have been the understatement of the century. It was so messed up that no way anyone would have come up with this idea on their own. Noah had spent such a long time trying to find the girl when she had been so close all along. He laughed.
"You want to tell me that this girl is the fucking assassin that slaughtered all those people in the restaurant? Her?" He pointed at Lynette. "She ran away the moment she saw her fucking housekeeper’s dead body for fuck’s sake!"
Lynette rolled her eyes and sat on the couch, crossing her legs. "Don’t worry, Noah. I can wait. Just stomach the information. It’s not like I have better things to do," she mocked.
"Why would that even happen in the first place? How?"
"I know that Flavio is the pearl in this ocean of stupidity but come on, you’re smarter than this, Noah," Lynette said. "I worked for Bazzoli. He wanted your deal with my zio gone and as he found out who I was, he knew that I was his best shot. Simply because I know you. So, I thought how I could get this done quicklysince we never really talked about anything of importance but your sister. And even that wasn’t much. But then I remembered you taking me to this lovely Japanese restaurant where all the people were literally begging for your approval. I dug deeper. Why would someone waste their precious time and money on a single restaurant in Seattle when they have so many other opportunities both in Las Vegas and Sicily? Imagine my surprise when I found out what your real business deal was with the owner."
She didn’t seem worried at all. Noah’s expression was making her even more daring while he was trying to bury his anger as deeply as possible since the girl had a purpose in his plans. She was testing him, knowing how quick to judge he could be.
"You’re lucky to have such dedicated people working for you, Noah. Since there was nothing in the restaurant anymore, I had to back out."
"And you had enough time to do that, so why didn’t Cesarino?" asked Flavio.
Lynette laughed. "Cesarino was a dick who didn’t deserve to survive. He brought his own daughter along for the action to punish her. I knocked him out and left him for you to take care of. I figured you would treat him like the piece of shit that he was. As you are one of the cruelest men I had the honor of meeting. Or a curse. Can’t really make up my mind on that one."
"What about the girl? You cared enough to make her father pay, but not enough to take her with you?"
The girl rose from her seat. "Anastasia is better off as she is now. She made one mistake and was treated like the worst criminal on the face of the earth. And we all know there are much worse people. We areworse people." she paused, turning to Noah. "You are a monster. After everything I’ve known and seen, there’s no doubt in my mind. However, neither you nor your brother would punish her in any way, shape or form just because she was born in a mafia family. That’s her only sin, and one that she cannot change. I don’t want a life like the one she had in New York for her and you won't hurt her." She looked at Drew for the first time. Her eyes were empty as she quickly moved past Isaac and then Inéz. "You know how shocked I was when I saw those three going in the restaurant?" she asked.
Noah frowned. "You were still there?"
Lynette nodded. "I’m not an amateur, Noah. Of course, I was there. I had to make sure that there was nothing that could connect me to it all. And I know that you want me and why, but going to such lengths to find me wasn’t the right way. Did it seem like I wanted to be found?"
The Capo raised his eyebrow.
"Did you actually think that your captainsjust dropped dead of their own accord?"
A wave of rage overcame him as he walked up so close to Lynette that there was almost no space between them. "You fucking killed my soldiers?" he roared.
"Surprise," she whispered, unwilling to look away. "I wanted you to leave me alone. That was the purpose of my first kill but it clearly didn’t come through the way I intended it to. Therefore, your second Capodecinahad to go. And here we are because your stubbornness is on the verge of being your downfall, Noah. Lucky me, you have many people to take the places of your captains and I can kill them one by one until the message gets through," she threatened.
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