Saved in Darkness

Chapter 16

Song above for Chapter: "Nothing" --- VÉRITÉ

FEDERICO

"Why didn't you fucking tell me, Domani?" I shout into the phone not being able to reign in my temper. I can't catch a full breath since I got on the jet from Italy over twelve hours ago and I am now in the car rushing to get back home.

Elenora's still pregnant.

I thought she had lost the baby. Everyone had told me she did and she didn't look pregnant, but I cannot forget the radiant look on her beautiful face.

She didn't move the entire time when we were in the penthouse, remaining seated at the table, but how did I not realize it?

Rage is coursing through me and I'm sweating from how hot my body is after also discovering I've been lied to since my parents were murdered. But it's being overpowered by the fear, and panic that I've lost Elenora all over again.

"When should I have told you? When you aimed your gun at me?" Domani questions. "You didn't want to hear it. Not from me, and sure as hell not from Nora." His calmness angers me even more.

"I've been trying to reach her all morning but she isn't answering," I state.

"Do you blame her?" He says and I want to scream at his calmness. "She gave me some things to give you when you got back. She didn't want to leave it in the penthouse knowing Rosetta has the place being watched and we now know it was bugged."

"She signed the papers, didn't she?"

Domani doesn't say anything for a moment. "You ordered her to leave and you know what you were doing when you baited her to promise not to come back."

I wipe at the angry hot tears rolling down my face as I picture how she looked before I walked away. "She didn't try to stop me," I state, knowing what an idiot I sound like.

"She's fucking ready to pop, Rico. You want her to follow you around while you were raving about like a lunatic?" Domani asks me, irritation clear in his voice.

I need to focus on something else, even though my body is in hyperdrive mode, I switch the conversation. "Has Mickey made any progress?"

"He's located and removed all the listening devices, but now is working on getting all the cameras out of there." He informs me. "Hang on, I have Clara calling me."

I pull off to the side of the road and use the car phone to call the Borelli household again while I wait.

"Borelli residence, how may I help you?"

"Yes, I know you must be sick of hearing from me, it's Federico Di Maggio again, and I've been—"

The housemaid interrupts me. "Yes, Mr. Di Maggio, I'm sorry but Ms. Elenora is not here. No one knows where she is or where she went."

"What?"

"She was here but then she left in a rush and the entire household is in chaos in worry for Ms. Elenora."

"How long ago was she there?"

"A few hours ago, sir."

"Rico," Domani comes back on speaker on my other phone and I let the Borelli housemaid go.

"I heard; I just called the Borelli's. Send Ciccio and Mostro to her old apartment and have them talk to Ruben and Mrs. Jones, see if they've heard from her."

"Okay, but Clara thinks she may have gone back to Skaneateles, where she's been this whole time."

"How far away is it?"