Page 269 of Marcello

“I’ll think of something,” Lucrezia answered coolly.

“Are you going to call Diciassette and Curtiello and let them know Rosolini’s heading their way?”

Lucrezia smiled evilly. “You call them. And be sure to tell them to kill Rosolini.”

…oh…

Oh, NO.

Lucrezia was going to take revenge against her brother in the pettiest way possible.

“That’s going to infuriate Cesare,” I pointed out.

Her smile only broadened. “I know.”

I glanced at her gun again, then pulled out my cell phone and dialed. “Diciassette – Rosolini’s headed your way. A black Mercedes sedan. Intercept the car and kill everyone inside.”

After I hung up, I prayed to God that Cesare died inside the hospital.

If he ever found out I was the one who made that phone call, I was a dead man.

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Five minutes later, we hadn’t heard anything from Diciassette, so Lucrezia ordered me to call him. It went straight to voicemail.

“Keep trying,” she ordered.

A couple minutes later, she read a text that made her go pale. She immediately made a call and began screaming into the phone in English.

“GOD DAMMIT – what the hell do you MEAN the attack’s aborted? CALL ME! NOW!”

After that, she shrieked at me. “Well?! What does Diciassette say about Rosolini?!”

“I’ve called both him and Curtiello three times each,” I said calmly. “Neither one’s answering.”

Lucrezia was stunned into silence.

Neither one of us wanted to state the obvious:

If Diciassette and Curtiello weren’t answering, there was a good chance they were dead.

And if they were dead, then Dario Rosolini and the Swede were probably alive…

And possibly on their way back with reinforcements.

I listened to the muffled pop pop pops of a gunfight inside the hospital.

Sounded like our guys were meeting resistance.

We might be meeting a lot MORE resistance very shortly.

Lucrezia suddenly opened her door. “Let’s go.”

I looked back at her in surprise. “Where?”

“Check a couple of our SUVs,” she ordered me as she hopped out, “but if they’re locked, we’re going inside.”

I jumped out of the vehicle. “Towards the shooting?”