You're My Peace of Mind

Part 12

The police arrested Emilio on a past warrant, and took me in for questioning. Now I'm sitting in an interrogation room, staring at male detective. It was completely silent until my stomach grumbled. "Would you like a sandwich?" Asked the detective. I realized I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast with Val yesterday morning. A sandwich sounds perfect right now but I seen how on TV shows cops offer you food so they can take your fingerprint or DNA.

"You haven't committed a crime so we don't need your DNA if you are worried about that Mrs. DeLaruso." the Detective said emphasizing the end. I just stared back at him. "What time is it?" I asked since there was no clock or windows in this room. I felt like I was in here for hours. "Its about 10 am Mrs. DeLaruso." he asked back. "Please call me Ana." I begged hating the way he called me.

The way Val used to called me sounded so seductive coming off his tongue, but now hearing him call me that disgusted me. "Alright Ana, are you ready to talk?" he asked and I quickly shook my head. I had nothing to say. The decretive huffed "Do you know a William Paulson? He goes by the name of Bill?" he said sliding me a picture of a mug shoot. I looked at the man in the picture but couldn't place him. He looked familiar but I just couldn't place him. The detective slide over another photo to me, this time of badly decomposed body. Oh my god, It had just hit me thats the man Val killed and Duffy and I buried, I was an accessory to murder.

"You sure he doesn't look familiar? He was an informant for us that was a member of Valentino DeLaruso crew. On the night of July 24th he informed us that he believed that he had been compromised and that Valentino was aware that he our informant. The next morning he told us he was called upon by Mr. DeLaruso for a meeting. We haven't heard from him since. A body was recovered last week and has been identified as Mr. Paulson. We believe he must have died on either July 25 or 26th. My understanding is that on July 25th you were preparing for your wedding is that correct?" I started to panic and just nodded my head. I was a bad lair so I couldn't trust myself to say anything. "Mrs. DeLaruso, I mean Ana on July 25th do you remember the where abouts of your late husband and Mr. Santigo?" I shrugged my shoulders. "Who is Mr. Santiago?" I asked curiously. "Mr. Santiago is the underboss of the of the DeLaruso crime family. Surely you are aware that your late husband Valentino DeLaruso was the leader of a big and violent Italian mafia crime family. The detective looked at me questionably. As I was about to answer, another deceive enters the room. He pulls aside the other detective and the start exchanging words in whispers. The original detective huffs and leaves the room with the new one taking his place. He welcomed me with a kind smile and had a friendlier demeanor.

This new Dectective was Alexander Depasquale. He was handsome with a tan complexion and 6'1 in height and slightly built with sandy brown hair and hazel eyes. He was Italian himself and was even related to some of the men in Val's crew. As a matter of fact his father loaned money to open up a restaurant back in the day from Val's father. When the restaurant went under, so did Alex's father... 6 ft under put there by Val's father. So when Alex was grown enough to choose his path, he chose to serve and protect the law and put away the "wise guys".

"Mrs. DeLaruso, I'm deeply sorry for your loss. As much as I wanted to take your husband off these street, he was very giving to the community. " he said . I Ignored his fruitless condolence, "Who is Mr. Santigo?" I asked. "He's the sottocapo, Emilio Santiago." I nodded my head in understanding. The detective keeps smiling at me, I start feeling uncomfortable sitting on the hard chair with this man goofy smiling at me. My apologies Mrs. DeLaruso, My name is Detective Alex Depasquale. He reaches over to shake my hand, I hesitantly shakes his hand. "Please call me Ana." I said. "Well Ana, your quite the sight. I can see why Mr. DeLaruso married you, I mean after what happened to Lydia I didn't think he would marry again." He finished grabbing the paper on the table and stood to walk away. I remember that name, Claudia once mentioned that name before but Emilio stopped her. "Who's Lydia?" I asked intrigued. Detective Alex turned and looked at me " She was his first wife, Lydia Monahan, she was beautiful and nothing like him." he said softly. "What happened to her?" I asked "That monster killed her. So consider yourself lucky your fate didn't end up like hers." Opening the door, he turned around one last time with a kind smile and said "Your free to go, Mrs. DeL... I mean Ana." I got up relieved to go but still had no idea where to go.

Walking out of the police station, I see Emilio sitting on the steps smoking a cigarette. "Geez it took you long enough. Did you say anything I would have to kill you for?" He said smirking. I walked up to him and took out the cigarette from his mouth and threw it. "It's bad for you. And I wouldn't be the first wife killed because of you guys." I said walking away.

"Hey wait!" Emilio shouted running after me. "What did they tell you about her?" he asked sternly catching up to me. I shrugged my shoulders. Emilio shift his feet and sighed running his hands threw his brown curly hair " Val loved her very much, she was his best friend. He told her everything, she attended every meeting and knew the business inside out. They got married when we were about 18, so she helped him grow this powerful. But she also was his downfall, she knew how to bring him to his knees." he said sadly. "Is that why he killed her?" I asked. "Is that what those bastards said? Val could not harm a hair on that lady, even when she turned on him and was going to turn him in to the pigs, in order to take his place as Boss." Emilio said angrily. "Who killed her then?" I asked confused "Don't worry about it." Emilio said his brown eyes getting darker in color glaring at me. His demeanor quickly changed and smiled, "I have a surprise for you, at the house." Emilio said cheerfully. He called Duffy to pick us up since his car was still impounded. We pulled up to the new house that I've never seen before.

* For another anyone that is following this story I'm sorry for the long wait and short chapter. I will be uploading more chapters shortly. Thank you again for reading!