“This one’s the ringleader of this circus,” Ciro answered, tipping his gun towards Randy.
“Yeah. Frankie told me as much,” I remarked.
All three men were grimacing on the floor, one with a shattered kneecap, one with a gut shot, and Randy with a shot in his right thigh. Our aims were enough to encumber, but not enough to kill. No. This wasn’t going to be quick.
“The first one who talks gets to go quickly,” I announced.
“It was all Randy’s idea!” the guy Ciro had his gun on yelled through his agony. He was the same one with a bullet in his kneecap. “It was all his stupid fucking idea.”
“Shut the fuck up, Tony!”
“Fuck that!” he screeched. “I’m not going to be tortured to death because of your greed.”
“My greed?!” Randy yelled. “You were eager to be in this just as much as I was!”
“Enough!” Luca roared.
“Yeah. You’re both pretty, girls,” Ciro deadpanned.
I dropped on my haunches in front of Randy. “Who cut my wife’s shirt off?” I cared about Frankie’s injuries, but I cared about her humiliation more. Frankie will heal from whatever physical injuries these sorry fucks inflicted on her, but her modesty? I couldn’t even begin to understand what a woman goes through when she feels she’s been violated. But, while I couldn’t understand it, I sure as fuck could avenge it.
The canary started singing again. “Randy did it,” he cried out. “This is all his fucking fault!”
“Like you didn’t put your hands on her too!” Randy yelled.
I pulled my gun out from the back of my waistband, pointed, and shot the canary in his head. I turned back to Randy. “I’ll get the entire story out of you, one way or another,” I told him. “And you’ll be begging for death way before I’ll grant it.”
The third guy let out a resigned laugh. “We should have known better than to listen to you,” he said, referring to Randy. “But you said you had an in and it was foolproof.”
I looked over at the third guy. “Which one of you was the prick who hurt Robbie?” None of their answers were going to save them, I just wanted to know. The guy’s blue eyes fell empty. That’s when I knew the answer. “It was you, wasn’t it?”
“At least, I didn’t rape her,” he pleaded. “He gave me permission to, but I didn’t!”
I stood up. “At least, you didn’t-” I was too astonished to continue.
“Fuck this shit,” Luca growled before discharging his gun and firing a bullet in the side of the piece of shit’s head.
“So, I get to kill this fuck, since you guys got yours?” Ciro asked, thrilled with the possibility.
I shook my head. “Nah, I’m the one who gets to end this fucker’s life. After all, it was my wife he put his hands on.” I told him, staring into Randy’s frightened eyes. “But you’ll have plenty of time to play with him first, seeing as how she’s your sister, and all.”
“I just needed money!” Randy shrieked. “I’m sorry!”
“You’re not,” Luca told him. “But you’re going to be.”
The guns had silencers, but I didn’t want to take any chances. Every minute we were here was a risk. “We’ll put those assholes in the doc’s car and take them back to Morgan City, where they’ll be cleaned up.” I kicked Randy on his bullet wound. He howled but, fuck him. “We’ll take him back with us.”
“Torch the house?” Ciro asked.
Luca nodded. “It’s old and run down. Manipulate the wiring and no one will be the wiser.”
I cocked my head and grinned at Randy. “Did you know that Ciro, here, can keep a man alive up to two weeks before the poor asshole’s body finally gives up?”
Randy paled and pissed his pants.
Chapter 20
Francesca~
Basco had done his best to fix my face, but he said that, while the cut wasn’t deep enough to warrant stitches, he still believed it would leave a scar. I had a trail of seven butterfly stitches down my face, and he said a bottle of Motrin would help with the rest unless I wanted something stronger. Right now, I felt fine, however, I knew tomorrow my body would be hurting like a sonofabitch. I opted for the Motrin with a stronger backup for tomorrow, if needed.
He tended to me first, and I had protested since Robbie had gotten the worst of it, but Basco made it clear that I was his first priority and the sooner I settled