My Endeavor

Chapter 16: "Shattered"

Four days...

It's been four days since I left Donatello's estate,? Four days since that phone call. I haven't had a decent sleep, I haven't left my apartment in fear that as soon as I walk out I will be shot on sight. Haven't been able to keep my food down. I lay on my bed contemplating the ceiling, my eyes dried out from the non-stop crying. I missed him, more than anything I missed us. But him, his life was not safe for me... I glance at my nightstand and see my phone light up, must be another message from Nik.

Nik has been non-stop texting me for the past three days, I haven't answered, nor I want to. I want to distance myself from all this. Even if it hurts me inside, Nik is one of my greatest friends, but I have to let him go too.

I get brought back from my thoughts by a knock on my door. I quickly get up and walk slowly to my kitchen; I open my top drawer and take out a sharped knife. As I tip toe my way to the door I feel my heart racing faster and faster. I take a deep breath and look through my peephole. My eyes widen as I recognize the man outside my door. I quickly drop my knife and open my door.

"Nik?... What are you doing here?". I stare at him while he's catching his breath, I notice the gash on top of his brow re-opened and blood covering half his Face. "Nik, what the fuck is going on?" I yelled.

"I need you to come with me, Please" He reaches out his hand and points to the exit.

"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what's going on. Why are you here, why are you all bloody?"

"It's Luca, he's lost it. Gio needs your help. You know he only listens to you."

My heart thumps hard on my chest. "Luca?"

"Yes, please we don't have much time, I drove here as fast as I could. He's on a fucking rampage at the club. He needs you, Vicky".

I stand there frozen in thought and just look at Nik, Luca needs me and I'm standing here like an idiot. I know I told him to stay away, I know I wanted distance, but my heart is telling me to go help him. I feel my chest tighten, should I stay or should I go?.

"...Take me to him" I quickly close the door behind me and follow Nik to the car.

4 Hours Earlier

"WHERE IS HE!?" Donatello's voice echoes through the hall of his estate. He approaches Gio's room and slams the door open. "Where the fuck is your brother!?"

Gio turns around from the window and faces his father and raises his eyebrow. "The hell if I know. I haven't seen him since this morning that I told him to go run some collections."

Donatello scoffs; "I was fine with him not showing his face at the meetings and at Enzo's funeral yesterday, in sympathy of his little "Heartbreak" he lifts his fingers in a quotation. "But I am not okay with getting calls in the middle of my damn day from the Moretti's and the Rizzo's because their soldiers and capos are winding up injured upon our collections."

"Wait... you think Luca is doing this?" Gio stares confused at his father.

"I don't think, I know! All of them end up with slashes on their faces. And you know how much your brother likes to fuck around with that knife"

"With all due respect father" Gio approaches his father and crosses his arms. "If he, in fact, is doing this they are either not paying up or are giving excuses of why they don't have all the money. Luca is just being persuasive and doing his job."

"I don't give a flying fuck what he's doing, I just know he needs to stop picking fights with our damn associates like this is some damn fight club!." Donatello turns around to leave. "You better find him and make him stop this nonsense or he will have to answer to me." Donatello exists.