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"Oh, I am aware."
"I had my people trace the GPS on the car you guys arrived in and tracked it to a warehouse down by the docks," Luca explained. "We found four men there, one of them dead."
I winced and glanced at Vito.
"I had my men dispose of the body and clean up the scene so there won't be a problem there," Luca continued. "The problem lies in the fact that that warehouse is in my territory and those guys were local thugs, which means this looks like I did it in every way possible. I can assure you, I did not."
"I'm fully aware of the fact that you had nothing to do with this, Luca," I stated firmly. "I'm just trying to figure out why someone is trying to frame you."
"I figure I'm a scapegoat," Luca said. "I think someone wants to put the blame on me so they don't get caught."
"But why you?" I asked. "We were over six hundred miles away when we were kidnapped. Aren't there families closer than that? Why choose to bring us all the way here?"
"I think I can answer that," Vinnie stated. "It's two reasons really. One, Luca is the youngest family head in all of Italy. And two, he's gay. If they put the blame on him, it kills two birds with one stone."
"Boy, are they in for a surprise. Not only am I younger than Luca, but I'm gay. I'd like to see how they deal with that."
"Is there anyone whoever is behind this could know you were gay, Tony?" Luca asked.
I shrugged. "Got me."
"It was in none of the reports I received when I had you investigated," Vito said. "But there seemed to be a lot of stuff that didn't get into those reports."
"Like what?" I asked out of curiosity.
I ignored the part where he said he had me investigated. As much as I disliked it, it made sense to have me checked out before approaching me.
"Where the money went, your mother, and being in foster care."
I frowned. "None of that was in the reports?"
"None of it."
That seemed odd to me.
"Just how good were they guys you sent to investigate me?"
"I thought they were pretty good," Vito replied, "but apparently I was wrong."
"Not necessarily," Vinnie said. "If someone didn't want you to see part of the report, is there any way they could have tampered with it?"
"Who gave you the report and how many people had access to it?" Luca asked.
"My Uncle Carmine gave me the report," Vito said. "I don't know how many people had access to it. I'd call him and ask, but we're trying to stay off the grid at the moment."
"Well," Luca started, "someone obviously knows you're here or we wouldn't have had that incident with the doctor last night."
God, I'd totally forgotten about him.
"Were you able to save his family?"
Luca nodded. "His wife and kids are safe and we've got the guys that were holding them hostage. Low level thugs like the ones that had you detained at the warehouse."
"God, this is all such a fucking mess."
I felt Vito's hand land on my leg, giving me a little squeeze. "We'll figure it out, Tony."
I wasn't sure how. It felt as if we were no closer to discovering who was behind all of this than we had been from the beginning. There were no clues, no trail to follow, no...Wait.
