"Don’t, Drew. I don’t care about four years ago. That’s not me anymore and you’d better realize it once and for all and move on. Honestly, you shouldn’t have ever been initiated. The job you wanted and were enlisted to do never really existed as you can clearly see. Find some new hobbies."
That was the last thing she said as the elevator door closed behind her, leaving them all shocked, confused and with too many questions.
CHAPTER 42
Since Lynette’s unexpected visit, no one knew what to think exactly. They hadn’t thought that getting in touch with the girl would turn out like this. She was a totally different person than she’d been four years ago. But while Noah saw a tough, confident and strong woman turning into who she had always been destined to be, Drew, Inéz and Isaac saw an assassin, a murderer and a mafia princess turned into a horrible person. Her behavior didn’t show any remorse as to what she had done over the years. Killing so many people, turning for help to the one person who’d hurt her, lied to her and wanted her gone for so long. The Lynette they had known would have never done that. She’d wanted nothing to do with the mafia and yet she delved right into it once she went into hiding after having faked her own death.
But as much as Drew wanted to believe that was the only thing that Lynette was now, he still loved her just as much. Maybe even more after finally seeing her for the very first time since he watched her die in his arms. She might have changed but in his eyes, she was still his first love, the one you never forget, and also no matter what everyone else said - the love of his life.
Noah on the other hand struggled with figuring out what to do about the situation she’d put him in. As theCapo dei capi he should have ordered his Enforcer to kill her but there were too many things that held him back from doing that.
She’d actually impressed him with her attitude. She was nothing like he remembered and he couldn’t help but curse himself for thinking that she would amount to nothing more than a girl too scared of the life she lived to grow stronger. Four years ago, she hadn’t been the girl he would have chosen to spend his life with. But now his twisted mind realized that she was the perfect match. The only thing was - he didn’t want the perfect match. As Lynette had pointed out - Inéz was his precious one. And that was the other reason why he hadn’t ordered Nicodemo to kill her. She had given him the one thing that freed Inéz from the awful job he had given her.
Looking at the information she’d sent to his phone, he had everything he needed against his Capodecina.He could have him killed on the spot without anyone going against him for treating his people unfairly.
"Flavio, arrange a meeting with my captains," he said to his brother after spending a long time in the office taking care of the paperwork. Flavio had been sitting on the couch nearby on his laptop.
He looked up from the computer with a curious expression and nodded, taking his phone out. "What are you going to do about Selvaggio?"
"What can I do? It’s not like I can kill her. That’s not why I looked for her for so long," he said standing up from his chair. "What would you do?"
Flavio laughed under his breath. "You don’t have to ask to know my answer."
"Putting your hatred for her to the side, if you wanted something from her which you could only get if she was alive, how would you handle it?"
"Noah, for fuck’s sake, ifyou don’t tell me what it is that you want exactly, I cannot help you. I am your Underboss, you know you can trust me with anything," he roared looking at his Capowith a mysteriously angry look.
The boss rolled his eyes. He knew that if there was one person he could trust, it was his younger brother, but it didn’t change the fact that he was not ready to involve anyone else in his plans. Not when nothing was certain. He wanted something to hold on to if things were to go badly.
"You don’t want to tell me, alright. One day you will need my help with whatever this is. For now, I think that as much as I don’t want it - you should hire her. We still have rats in our organization and she proved quite capable of handling things like this. After that, she might even be willing to help you with whatever it is that you need."
That statement was unexpected coming from Flavio. Suggesting to hire Lynette for an inside job as he would another man? People already hated the fact that he had initiated Isaac and Drew who were complete outsiders. They wouldn’t like it if they found out Inéz had somehow been initiated too. And most of all, they would throw a tantrum ifthey found out that he wanted to hire Lynette who was one of the main reasons why the Famigliahad problems in the first place. He would have to show a lot of strength to quiet down any objections his soldiers would have. And would it even be worth it? Was there really no other way to get rid of the rats?
He knew the answer but didn’t like it.
Yes. It appeared to be the only way out.
"After she told us about killing her father I was curious how she did it. Dude, I infiltrated the plans of the building, and it seems almost impossible to break in there, go to the most restricted area of the prison, kill someone in cold blood and not get caught. I hate
