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"Fine." He fully opened his eyes, making sure I knew he was serious. "But you need to contact me as soon as you're finished."
"I will." I kissed him one last time before getting dressed and heading to the bathroom. He was sound asleep before I came back in. I didn't bother speaking with Andro or Louie before leaving.
Orsino was the only one in the kitchen, and he wasn't one for small talk.
Within an hour, I was pulling into my ancestral home, the place I had grown up before being shipped off to boarding school. I hadn’t returned since my father's death over a year ago, and even then, I avoided my brothers as much as I could. I had only been at the house for the memorial service.
This was Vince's home now.
I got out of my car and buttoned my suit jacket, putting on a professional air, knowing that once I was inside, I would be talking about my mate in a way that grated on my nerves.
The butler greeted me at the door and took me to my brother's office.
Vince was sitting behind his grand desk like he was some sort of king. "Why the hell aren't you in Stanford or wherever the hell that omega lives?” He didn’t even look up from the notebook he was writing in.
“We came up and visited his family. He wanted to stay longer to be with his nephews. So here we are.”
Vince raised an eyebrow. "So the omega is here? I know you've been staying with the Ferrinis all week. You must have some good information for me. No way you could have been so deeply embedded without learning something useful."
“I’ve been confined to just one floor. It's not as if I have full run of the house, if that's what you're thinking."
“Do you have information for me or not? You wouldn’t be dumb enough to be staying in their home without getting anything, right?"
I nodded and cleared my throat. “I might have some stuff." I pulled out a slip of paper and handed it to him. "They have an important shipment coming in. There’s the address and time. That’s all I could find.”
“Guns, drugs, or people?”
“Guns and drugs.” The Ferrinis might’ve been the mafia, but they didn't traffic people. They at least had some ethics among them. Unlike Vince.
The door opened, and my other brother, Cord, came in. He smiled when he saw me. For a moment, it seemed genuine and took me by surprise. "Felik! When did you get here?" He wrapped me in a tight hug.
“Just a few minutes ago.” I hugged him back, actually feeling welcomed in my family home. “I'm just bringing Vince up to speed on my little project."
"Project?" He looked between the two of us. "What does Vince have you working on?”
How much of Vince's scheming was Cord not aware of?
"He's doing his part to help me take down that fucker Andro," Vince said.
Cord rolled his eyes. "I wish he would forget that fucking mission. The Ferrinis are too big for us to go after. And even if they weren't, our dealings have always been good. We might not be allies, but we've never been enemies. Not till you took over."
“Fuck off and leave the strategizing to me. I run this family." Vince stood up and waved off Cord. "I don't want to hear your arguments."
Cord shook his head, obviously defeated. Clearly, this wasn’t the first time they’d had this argument. He looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "You're going along with his scheme?"
I held up my hands in surrender. "I'm just doing what I'm told."
"And what exactly is that?"
I looked to Vince to see if there was something I wasn't supposed to say, but he was too busy scribbling in his notebook to look up, so I took that as permission to spill. "I'm in a relationship with Jeremiah Ferrini.”
“The youngest omega? He's not even involved in the business!”
Vince scoffed. “He’s a Ferrini. That means he’s fair game. Clearly, he’ll spread his legs for whatever alpha shows him any attention."
My fists clenched because I didn’t like hearing my omega being talked about that way.
Cord rolled his eyes then pointed a finger at Vince. "You’re gonna get us killed. All of us. Our blood will be on your hands.” Then he turned to me, looking at me with more disappointment than I’d seen from anyone in my family in a long time. “I can't believe you’re going along with this, Felik." He shook his head and left.
