The Mafia's Babies by Kaycee Romano (howl and other poems txt) 📗

River let out a deep audible breath. "Finally!" She slumped her shoulders.

The corners of Mateo's lips twitched upward as he watched her.

She suddenly remembered the other reason why she was here.

"A detective from Wyoming visited me today morning."

Mateo stood up immediately. "What?"

River nodded her head. "Exactly, and when I was visiting the apartment, the security lady called me saying someone was looking for me. I go down to take a look at who it was and it happened to be the same dude."

Mateo clenched and unclenched his jaw. There was shit going down already. The last thing he needed was some man tailing his wife-to-be.

"What's his name?" Mateo looked around and River rolled her eyes when she realized that he was looking for his phone, which was probably under the pile of files and gadgets he had shoved off the desk a few minutes ago.

"Ian Sanders." River hopped off the desk and watched him kick around the stuff and finally find his phone which was fortunately intact.

Mateo typed away on his phone, a frown etched on his beautiful face. "He was stationed at LA and got a transfer to Wyoming."

River raised a brow; that was sort of odd, wasn't it?

"Why would he leave LA for Wyoming?" She asked.

Mateo turned to her, his jaws set. "I think we will have to find out."

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Mateo, River and Victor was shocked to not find Davis outside Kiara's room. They rushed to the room to see him playing with Kiara.

River let out a sigh of relief.

"PAPA!!!" Kiara squealed with happiness. Mateo's eyes filled with involuntary tears as he gently picked up his little girl. "Hi my principessa."

Kiara giggled. She found it very funny when he called her that.

"Where's Sia?" River turned to Davis.

"She got a call and left saying it's an emergency." Davis informed her.

River pulled out her phone from her pocket and dialed her friend's number. It was not like her to leave Kiara alone without informing her. What could have happened so suddenly that she had to leave without informing any of them.

The phone went unanswered after several rings.

River looked over at Mateo with a frown on her face. "She is not picking up."

Mateo took in a deep breath, dread filling inside him. What if Sergey had done something to her as River had doubted?

"I will try to track her down." Victor stated immediately and left the room.

"Zia said she will be back soon." Kiara sensed the tension in the room.

"Of course she will be honey." River put on a gentle smile on her face and turned to her daughter and baby daddy. "We are just making sure she is safe and sound like we make sure you and Lukey are."

"When will Lukey come?" She asked in her cute little voice.

River looked at Mateo who nodded at her.

River and Michelia had decided that they were going to go get Lucas, Michelia and Lorenzo. The detective had reached their housing which meant their position had been compromised, and they could not make the mistake of staying there any longer. The two women and the kids had to be moved to a safer place while the rest of them did the fighting.

This was a real Mafia war and Mateo was not going to let River anywhere near it.

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"How can you be so sure that Mateo Adesso isn't behind your assault?" Ian Sanders asked.

Dmitri rolled his eyes and leaned back against his pillows. "Because I don't even know this guy?" Dmitri could make any lie seem like the truth; not even a lie detector could catch his lies.

"Your sister's body was found in his ranch and you are telling me you don't know this guy?" The detective probed.

"I don't personally know him." Dmitri emphasized. "And I don't think he has anything to do with my sister's death either." Dmitri knew that if he wanted her dead, Mateo would do it head on. The Italians had too much pride. "Someone else could have killed her and dumped her body there?"

"Or it could have been Mateo Adesso who killed her." Detective Sanders said.

Dmitri poked the inside of his cheek with his tongue and studied the man who looked around his age. "Why do you want to prove that he did it?"

"I want to prove it because it is what I do." He shrugged.

"Maybe if you take a step back and re-evaluate the whole case with no prejudice against that Italian man, maybe you would be able to find the real killer." Dmitri said and thought in his mind, 'And hopefully stop a Mafia war.'

Mafia wars were never pretty. They played dirty and a lot of innocent people had to give up their lives. Dmitri Petrov was not a pacifist; he loved a good fight. But he did not want any innocent lives taken.

"I will keep that in mind." Ian said.

Dmitri nodded at him. "I think that's all I have to say to you."

The detective nodded and took his leave, exiting the room and turning around only to see River walk out of the other VIP room and talk to Victor. Ian speed-walked to the both of them and got in the elevator with them.

"You don't look like you were here on rounds." He commented.

River looked over at him. He was really good-looking. He had the face and physique of a model and he had powerful aura around him. It was clear that he was no push over. And even more clear from the morning incident that he had an agenda, something which had everything to do with her. She just didn't know what it was. But she hoped to find out soon.

"Well, didn't you know that my daughter is admitted here too?"

"What happened to her?" He asked, but something in his tone told her that he already knew what had happened.

"Mateo and our kids were in a car accident." She said coolly.

"Oh. I am sorry." Though he did not sound sorry at all.