Mafia's Planner Unplanned| COMPLETED

•34• Now or Never

Joseph's P.O.V

I hand my open phone to Christine while I place my sole focus on the truck in front me. "Call josephine." I say and it's not long before I hear the other end pick up. "Hey-"

I cut my sister off "I'm sorry but I need you to drop everything you're doing. Get Darryl to get the surrounding areas, Chris is going to send you my location. Say there's a bomb threat or a gas leak, I don't give a fuck. I'll need a blockade. You need to get mom and dad as soon as possible. Romina was taken by her father, we can only assume."

"Consider it handled. Should I.. also have a crew of health workers on standby?"

"Yes." I looked at christine. Her eyes glued on the road.

The car was filled with silence. I knew that silence. This familiar silence I had only been subjected to once before. Only this time the circumstances were different. I had more power. Power I was willing to use in order to destroy everyone around me if it meant she would be safe.

I reach over and grab the phone from Christine "I'm going to text you the street you all will be stationed on. It's important you stay where I tell you."

I watch the car take a left. We both looked at each other briefly. "What are we going to do Joseph? You and I both know where he's taking her." She peers at me incessantly while I keep my eyes on the one way street. I hang up once I've finished texting Josephine.

I ignored her question. "It won't work, he's crazy you and I both know you can't get anything from a corpse." A shudder goes down my spine thinking of romans bones lying in a sack somewhere. All because they got dealt with a shit deck of parents.

"He doesn't know that." Christine says "What makes sense to him doesn't to us."

Suddenly some odd words resurface in my mind. That stupid warning from a pitiful assassin. "The flood is coming, Exodus is near, and soon you will all drown, one queen for a king" I mutter trying to make sense of this nonsense.

"What the fuck are you saying?"

"It's something a kid told Mina when he tried to kill her a while back." I look at Chris while turning on a street. He's referencing to the bible this sick bastard. I have no idea what he's thinking. The only thing I know for sure now is "He's going to the cathedral to drown her."

I don't have to look at Chris to know all the color just drained from her face. Everything is beginning to make sense, he thinks Romina cheated her way out of death. That her mom should have survived all those years ago. I hand her my phone to focus on the road, I know a shortcut. "Call CGG associates and tell her we'll need 20."

"20 what?" She asks but I ignore the question "She'll know." Chris nods but the phone flies to the window as a car crashes into us from the side. Not enough to flip us but enough to crush our door in as we were slammed into a pole. I move her head out of her face and check her pulse. As long as she was breathing, there was no problem as far as I was concerned. I picked up my phone and dialed her my damn self as I grabbed guns and began strapping myself. "Joey to what do I–"

"I need you and ember to get me 20. Today, I'm heading to Santa Maria and I'll need 20 places within a 2.1 mile radius within 40 minutes." I cock the gun back and place the phone between my shoulder and ear. Using my side mirror to look at the men behind me.

All I can think about is her and those lips. Kissing those full lips and looking at them, looking at her. If I die today she'll be my last thought.

I crouch down and aim for their feet. I shoot and listen to the cries of men on their backs. "Hey guys." I say shooting at the bodies I could see. Three down, it was only one car so to be safe I'll assume I have more blood to spill. I quickly run to Christine's side and make sure she's okay before hiding behind the car. Since her door was pushed against the pole she would have to crawl out my side.