Chapter 172: I Already Have A Plan
Chapter 172: I Already Have A Plan
Gregorio
"Is she okay?" I asked Domenico as he walked into my office at the club and Adriano was already laying back on the long dark couch across from me. Domenico has been the one watching her most out of the three of us and I know he was doing it through some of our men.
Relief flowed through me at his satisfied nod but I knew he was still here to talk about everything else that is currently going wrong. Like Adriano warned, I received my assignment this morning surrounding Lucas's kidnapping and based on the tension across Domenico's forehead, I know he had too.
"What is your order?" I asked as I stood from my desk, taking a seat beside Adriano since I knew I wouldn't be able to work while having this conversation.
My order was simple but this entire situation made me too uneasy to focus nonetheless. Camilla is going to be caught in the middle no matter what angle we come at this and that knowledge terrifies me more than I think I am capable of admitting.
"While you are working on fixing all of the camera footage, Adriano and I are going to move in with two separate teams as back up. With Adriano's focus on grabbing Lucas, Raphael suspects the wife will be disoriented and attempt to leave in a panic. So my job is to knock her out and bring her back to the base for information if things go wrong with retrieving the main target."
The same man we were planning to kidnap is the man our girl adores. I couldn't help it as my eyes drifted over to Adriano whose fists were once again curled into tight balls, reminding me of the way he looked some days ago by that elevator. Raphael is a cruel, cold man and even though I knew Camilla is under close surveillance in her hometown, I still feel sick at how similar that unconscious girl on the floor looked at her.
At first, I thought Adriano was crying because she was dead and it was a moment that left us all shaken up despite the truth that she was safe.
"So what are we going to do then?" I asked the question that has been going through our minds since we realized our relationship was so much bigger than just sex.
This was all such a disaster and as much as I hated Camilla being gone, it was almost necessary for us to work through all of this shit. Domenico ran his fingers through his hair, a nervous tendency of his looking down at his lap in defeat. It was an expression I mirrored, unfortunately having very little to say in any of this. The three of us knew it was Adriano who held the power, he was the one who had the orders of an engagement. He was the one risking the chance of taking on the title of the Don. Adriano is the one who could make or break everything and I saw that it was eating away at every part of him.
"I already have a plan." Adriano said, his tone so mumbling that I could see dissociating his emotions from everything else.
"Are you going to propose?" Domenico asked with slight disbelief in his voice but we didn't judge nor did we interrupt. We simply stayed still, desperate for anything that could shed a little light to this horrible tunnel we have trapped ourselves in.
The grim look on his face confirms Domenico's suspicions and I couldn't help but feel a little despair because of it. This was not how any of this was supposed to be.
"In two weeks time, I am going to take Camilla to Susan's place for lunch. I am going to ask her to trust me and say that she needs to help me pretend for a while." Adriano said.
Camilla is a smart girl and I know it won't take her long to realize this is about something serious. She will play along perfectly because she trusts us and it is going to make everything that needs to happen afterwards so much harder.
"And then?" I prob, my heart racing as the noticeable clench of Adriano's jaw in response.
He was quiet for a torturous moment and I watched as he shut everything inside him down, forcing himself not to feel what he was about to say. I used to fear effortlessly he could do it but right now, I was envious.
"And then, we say goodbye."
"No!" I protest almost instantly as my voice threatens to break beneath the pressure of my fear. From the corner of my eye, I saw Domenico stiffen across from us but my focus was on the man at my side.
"Goodbye, Adriano?" I challenged myself.
"You think letting her go is going to be safe for her after the entire world learns she is to be the future wife of a Mafia Don? You have got to be out of your fucking mind."
"Doing this is the only god damned way to keep her alive." Adriano snappe, reaching to the tray on the table across from us to pour himself something strong. I was too angry to even want to drink.
"She is going to get killed the second she steps out of our protection." I argued, hating how helpless I feel at the moment.
I know I was missing something here but even if we had people watching her for the rest of her life, I couldn't bring myself to let her go. Maybe that made me selfish but I would selfishly be hers until death and then some.
"Not unless the rest of the world believes her to already be dead." Domenico said quietly at my front but it felt loud enough to ring through me until the truth of its vibration rattled my bones.
"Why are you both so insisting on pushing her away?" I asked, taking Adriano's glass from him and drinking it for courage.
"Camilla is strong and can handle this by our sides if we just let her in."
I knew this and I don't understand why they are all of a sudden acting otherwise. If I could offer Camilla a normal life with us, I would in a heartbeat but that simply wasn't the way the world works.
"You really think she would still want us after we murder her father?" Adriano said and those few words were enough to piss me off.
"Screw Lucas." I shook my head, praying to god they had better reasoning for leaving Camilla than something as stupid as revenge. Why are we even entertaining the possibility of a break up?
"Adriano, I am really truly sorry about the death of our mother but what is more important is here."
I was met with silence as anger and tension spread throughout the room but I was so sick and tired of being trapped in the unknown. I wanted a plan, and I wanted one that didn't leave all our hearts broken and lonely. We were all hurting and struggling to cope with how quickly everything has changed but there was another solution to all of this, it was just one nobody wanted to face.
"Why can't we just let him live?" I asked.
"Raphael would never allow it." Adriano tries to shut down my idea but I know he was much smarter than that. The only problem is that it would be up to him to initiate.
"But you could," Domenico chipped in, his eyes moving from his lap to Adriano.
As those three words sunk in, I could see the undeniable pain in both of their eyes, mine likely showing the same emotions. I didn't blame Adriano for wanting to take the easy way out but if he didn' take Raphael's place, everything would fall apart.
"You can't kill Lucas and keep Camila." Domenico said the ugly truth I know none of us wanted to face
Adriano's jaw tightened in distress, clearing having to restrain himself from lashing out. He was mad at the world, or more specifically the fate he would have to submit in order to salvage what is already so damn broken.
"Taking Raphael's place is the reason we have to let her go." His words surprised us all and his words were full of sorrow and remorse.
He has always planned to take our father's place and that is what Domenico and I failed to realize.
"On the morning of 13th July, I am going to propose to Camilla and Susan's place. We are going to walk around and so as Raphael says to give the illusion of obedience and then I am driving Camilla to the Divinity's for the last time."
He wouldn't look at either of them as he spoke and I couldn't tell whether I wanted to scream at him for his plans or cry because I wasn't sure that I could stop them. Divinity's is the loading area where we kept our private jet and he just admitted he wanted to ship our girl off the day before everything goes to shit.
"Don't you think she should have a say in this considering it is her whose entire life is about to change because of us? What you propose strips her of everything she cares about and places her in a situation she is not prepared for. At least with us, she could understand…."
"Understand what, Gregorio?" Adriano cut me off.
"Understand that we were all monsters in our fucked up ways, that we enjoy Killin people who do horrible things but still humans nonetheless."
Is it so wrong to believe I think Camilla wouldn't judge if we let down our guard a little?
"What do you think the mafia is, you asshole?"
Although she may seem it, our girl is anything but innocent and does not require to be sheltered. I get that our natural instinct is to protect her from the bad world we live in, but if it came between losing her and telling her the truth, I knew what option I would choose.
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