My Skater Boy // V.H.

32-Missing

I check everywhere and then I see a paper on the bed.

Love blinds you from what is important.

-B

"Shit." I crumble the piece of paper in my hand and Vinnie just stares at me in the doorway. "A uh- an enemy of my father has him." I drop that paper and walk out. Vinnie picks up the paper and follows me. "We need to send you all home before something like this happens again. You all need to go back." I ramble as we go down the stairs.

"What? No! I'm coming with you!" Vinnie replies.

"No." I turn to him. "You got shot. And you need to be safe. I need you to be safe." I say and we get outside. Across the pavilion I see cop cars piled up at Calgri's club and I rush toward my car. We speed home and when I rush into the house, everyone is sitting in the kitchen. "Bartelli took Reggie." I say breathlessly.

Sam gets up quickly, followed by Aiden, Silas, and Harry. Vinnie follows us as Sam drags me down the hall into what would have been my fathers office. "What the hell are you talking about?" Sam asks.

"He must have been there last night. Right in front of us. He saw us working and then when Vinnie and his friends came in, they must have seen that Reggie wasn't with them. They took him to make a statement to me. Because somehow, they know I would do anything to get him back." I look at Aiden and he has an unreadable expression.

"How do you know it was Bartelli?" Harry asks. He puts his long hair into a man bun and crosses his arms over his chest. I take the paper from Vinnie and I show them.

"He must have been there and took Reggie when I was trying to save Vinnie. Took him right in front of us and we didn't even notice." I scoff.

"Love blinds you from what is important." Harry reads out loud.

"I had my guard down when I was saving Vinnie. I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings, I wasn't looking out the big ass glass window to see my friend being taken." I explain and they all stare at me. "Harry, can you hack into the security cams. We need a timestamp and if there is a car I need the registration." Harry nods his head and leaves the room.

"A mafia drug lord isn't going to drop breadcrumbs Ella." Aiden says to me.

"He will if he wants me. For whatever reason that may be, he has made it brutally clear that I am the one he wants. He doesn't want Reggie, he wants me to find Reggie." I say and turn to Vinnie. "We need to get you guys into the US fast. You need to go under lockdown until I can get Reggie back."

"What? No. I told you before, I'm going with you dammit." Vinnie replies.

I let out a puff of hit air and looked back at him. "Vinnie, if you laugh too hard, you could bleed out and die. I can't have you dying so what you need to do is get your ass on the jet and get home." I say bluntly.

"No." He shakes his head. "I'm coming with you. I am fine. I am healing." He reasons and I shake my head.

"Go home Vinnie. You need to be safe." I go to turn around. Sam and Aiden leave before me, followed by Silas and Harry and Vinnie grabs my arm. He spins me around and holds my face in his hands. My breath gets caught in my throat and then Vinnie lowers his head to mine.

He rests his forehead on mine and closes his eyes. "I will not lose you again." He whispers. I close mine as I feel goosebumps prickle my skin. His thumb traces circles on my cheek and I look back up at him. His beautiful hazel eyes look down at mine and he moves closer. His lips brush against mine and I feel my stomach physically pull toward him.

He moves my head to the side and then his lips connect with mine. This is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong. My head goes off like an alarm clock.