from me and I watch him leave.
My heart trembles now as pieces of that wall I placed up continue to fade away.
I know what’s happening to me. I’m worrying about him because I’m falling for him.
I’m falling and I don’t know if I can stop myself.
Or if I want to.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Christian
I jumped on my bike and ride away. We’re assembling at Checkpoint A which we discovered after the mission last night was a factory on the other side of Chicago, very near the woodland areas. That’s where the fuckers are keeping the guns and the other items they stole. A truck is supposed to come by to pick up the guns and deliver them to be shipped to their new buyer, Kar Pleshov.
Again I give them credit for the bravado of tactics.
But they aren’t as clever as we are. Our plan last night to find out where Check Point A was ran smooth without hiccups. Us finding out the location was the worst thing that could happen to them. Tonight we plan to fuck with them the same way they fucked with us and get the guns back.
This is the final part. the resolution and I hope all will be resolved. I decided that asshole the other day watching me must have had something to do with Falcone so I made Vincent aware of it and dropped it.
I didn’t want to divert my attention to looking around for shit when this mission required my undivided attention.
Then there was Lilly to think about. Twice I found myself connecting with her . The first time was when I spoke of the past and the tutor who changed me. I just left out the parts about what the tutor meant to me. it was Amelia. that was how we met. She was the good girl. The good little bookworm asked to tutor the football jock so he could stay on the team. That was how we began. I hadn’t talked about that story to anyone in years.
It was the first time since Amelia’s death that I didn’t think about that part. I just thought of the memory.
The next time Lilly and I connected was earlier when I told her I wasn’t like Miguel. I could see her thinking it and I had to set her straight. I set her straight like I wanted her past this arrangement of ours. It was an automatic reaction and important to me that she knew I would never treat her badly.
When I met the guys and we took our positions around the woodland area by the factory I forced myself to focus.
Shit’s supposed to go down in about five minutes so I need to be ready.
Lilly is what awaits me after this. She is what will be waiting for me at the end of this dark tunnel of shit. I just have to survive and make it through to the other side.
I’ve set things up so all the men have communicators that work long range. It’s similar to what the military would use. The communicators all have tracking devices too so just in case it all goes to hell and one of us gets taken.
Me, Vincent, and Salvatore are hidden in the undergrowth to the left of the factory. Gabe, Nick and a few of the men in our alliance are to the right. Claudius and his men are in another little group to the side of the factory. We’re fifty men strong and we have our snipers who always back us up, stationed in the trees.
We’re what I call solid and the only result of us is a blood bath.
It will be an all-star show down with Falcone and Officer Tanner making their appearances soon.
Vincent straightens when a large white truck comes into view.
This is it. It’s show time.
“Get ready boys,” Vincent says into his communicator. “Once they get out of the truck and get in the factory we move.”
I’m ready as fuck and mad like it too.
I’ve been waiting for this moment for weeks.
The truck parks up and Falcone jumps out along with officer Tanner and a few others. Bastards. They’ll get theirs. I’ll make sure of that. I absolutely fucking will.
They won’t get away with making a fool out of me.
They open up the back of the truck in prep to load the guns and the other things they stole. The men inside the factory open the large mechanical door that opens with a security code.
I straighten up when Falcone and Officer Tanner walk