Mafia Obsession

Rick

The piercing sound of tortured screams fills the air, as I descend into one of our basement rooms. My brother is hell- bent on getting revenge on the man who abused his woman.

He gave him a good kicking the first day we got him back but has been leaving him to stew for a few days.

Leo intends to end him today. I wanted to get some information from him first, but it seems he has started without me.

Leo can be the most brutal and vicious out of the three of us. He is more broken than Kane and me.

I watch as Leo circles Bruce, who is tied up to the rafters. He is like a tiger waiting to pounce on its prey. He can be unbelievably savage. “You are a piece of shit for the way you treated my woman,” he spits, delivering a firm and hard punch to the gut.

The coward who put my brother through hell dares to plead. “Please, don’t do this.”

All he is doing is adding fuel to the fire. Leo lands a hard punch to his jaw, cracking it clean in two. Bruce’s mouth goes slack.

My heart fires as I notice Ellie standing in the corner, watching. This isn’t something I’d want Alicia to witness me doing.

Her eyes are full of as much hate and rage as Leo’s. They are a broken pair. Both of them have gone through their fair share of abuse and hell, and I hope they will heal each other. My youngest brother has been lost for years.

“Do you need a hand?” I ask.

Leo’s gaze shoots to me, and the look in his eyes is fire. He is rarely so focused, but he is right now. “No.” He clenches his fist and punches the guy in the stomach.

I clear my throat. “Are you forgetting the questions I need Bruce to answer?”

Leo’s jaw tightens, and he glares at me. “No.” I walk toward him. “Then, step the fuck aside.”

There’s an air of danger clouding my little brother as he observes me. He wants to protest, but he knows the score. “You better not kill him. I get to end that asshole.”

I nod my head but don’t acknowledge the fact that this guy will die no matter what information he gives me. People like him are easiest to flip when they think they have a chance of surviving.

“Bruce, isn’t it?” I ask, standing in front of him with my arms crossed over my chest.

“Who the fuck wants to know?” he spits, blood painting his teeth. “Rick Romano.”

A shudder passes through him, and he glances out of the less busted up eye which he can still open.

“If you want to leave this place alive, I need you to tell me who in our outfit helped Austin.”

He snorts. “He ain’t letting me leave here alive. No way.” I shake my head. “Leo isn’t in charge. I am.”

There’s a long stretch of silence as he stares at me. “If I tell you who helped him, then you will let me go?” he asks.

This is proving more straightforward than I expected. “Yes. Exactly.”

Little does he know that the moment I let him go, he will have to fight his way through my brother before he leaves here. I’m a man of my word, though. I’ve got no intention of holding him captive any longer once I’ve got the information I need.

“Fine. Let me down, and I’ll tell you.” “That’s not the deal.”

He blows out a long breath. “Three other men were involved. One was called Ben, Enzo and the other Liam.”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Ben, who?” I ask, knowing we have two Bens working in our operation.

“Fuck.” He shakes his head. “Was it Jensen or Johnson?”

“Jackson?” I ask.

He nods his head. “Yeah, that’s it.”

I glance over at Leo, who gives me a slight nod. They will need to be made an example of, ensuring no one thinks about fucking with us again. “Are you sure they are the only ones?”

“Positive.”

“Great. I’m nothing if not a man of my word.” Leo passes me a knife to cut him down, and I move forward to cut his bindings. “You’re free to leave.”

He lets out a sigh of relief.

“But, you have to get passed my brother and your ex-girlfriend.” His face falls. “I said I’d let you go, but I said nothing about getting you out of here.”

“No, please, you can’t-”

Leo has already approached and punches him in the face interrupting him mid-sentence. My heart skips a beat as Ellie steps forward and kicks him in the stomach. I’ve got a feeling this is something they should do together in private. “I’ll leave you to it.”

Leo gives me a nod, as I turn to leave them. By the time I make it to the stairs out of the basement, Bruce’s screams are chasing me down. I grit my teeth, leaving the dungeon.

Leo’s thirst for brutality gets to me. He has no reservations with killing and torturing, unlike Kane and me. It’s why he was the underboss. In charge of dealing with the more gritty and dirty parts of the business. My younger brother is a troubled man, but I hope Ellie will help him heal the wounds of his past.

Alicia’s father is still staying here, hovering around her. I’m hoping to get her on her own today because Kane insisted Nick accompany him to a club we own. He did it as a favor to me, as Alicia is being discharged from our hospital wing by our doctor, Helen.

Helen is a fantastic surgeon, and she patched up the wound really well.

Alicia will still be a little sore for a while, but she’s on the mend.

The hospital wing is concealed on the other side of the mansion in a separate basement. I head through the main hallway and into the other wing of the house, taking the steps down to the woman I love.

This place has been used too many times lately for the most important people in my life. First, my two brothers and now Alicia. I enter the room, and Alicia is sitting up in her hospital bed. She smiles at me the moment she notices me. “I’m glad to see you.”

“Are you?” I ask.

She nods her head. “My dad has been driving me insane.”

I laugh. “Your dad doesn’t want to leave your side, because he knows I’ll be able to see you.” I walk toward her, and she watches me. “How are you feeling?”

“Better.” She tilts her head. “Although I’d feel much better if you gave me a kiss.”

It’s wrong that my cock stirs to life at the thought. Her soft, pillow-like lips have evaded me for too damn long. I stride toward her. It’s as if I can’t get to her quick enough.

She gasps as I thread my fingers through her dark hair and tilt her face toward me.

“Is that correct?” I ask.

She licks her bottom lip, inviting me in.

I lean down to kiss her. Our lips meet in a tender caress. One that makes me ache all over for her. I groan as her tongue slips into my mouth, swiping around my own with gentle strokes.

My fingers are still laced in her hair, and I tug gently, pulling her mouth away from mine. “Careful, princess. You don’t want to start something you can’t finish.”

Her eyes flash with defiance. “Who says I can’t finish it?”

“I do,” Helen says, startling the both of us apart. “Good Morning, sir.”

“Morning, Helen.” I take a step away from Alicia, to her disappointment.

Her eyes narrow as she glances at Alicia. “Alicia, you were shot three days ago.” She glances at me. “You may feel better, but you need to keep any strenuous activities to a minimum for at least a week. Especially since you are pregnant.”

Alicia turns a deep red at her suggestion. My body protests at the thought of not being inside of her for a week. “Understood.”

“When you say strenuous, do you mean nothing at all?” Alicia asks, surprising both of us.

A small, knowing smile curves onto Helen’s lips. “If you’re very gentle.” She glances at me. “It should be okay, but no crazy positions.”

I’m not shy about sex, but Alicia has turned an even deeper red now. I clear my throat, trying to disperse the tension. “Is Alicia free to go, doctor?” She nods. “Yep, here are her pain meds.” She passes them to me.

“Alicia, you are free to go, but remember you’ve got a second person relying on you staying healthy now.”

She swings her legs out of the hospital bed and jumps to her feet, wincing slightly. “I won’t forget.” Alicia sets her hand on her lower belly. “I can’t wait to welcome this little one into the world.”

Helen smiles and nods. “I’m sure you both will make excellent parents. Once your dad comes to terms with it, I’m sure he’ll make the best grandfather, especially if the way he dotes on you is anything to go by.”

Alicia’s knees wobble slightly, and she winces again in pain. Out of instinct, I slide a hand onto her lower back, trying to steady her. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, a little sore.” She smiles at Helen and holds out a hand. “Thank you for taking such good care of me.”

Helen shakes her hand. “My pleasure. I’ll be seeing you weekly anyway for a check-up on that little one.” She winks and then walks away from us.

“Can you believe I’m pregnant?”

I glance down at Alicia, my insides warm and fuzzy. “Not really, but I couldn’t be happier.”

“Me neither.”

I bend down and hook one arm under her knees and the other under her back, lifting her from the ground.

She laughs. “What are you doing?”

“I’m carrying you to my bedroom before your dad comes back and tries to stop me.” I raise an eyebrow.

“He’s protective of me.”

I press my lips to her forehead. “So am I. Your dad has got to accept that I’m the man who will protect you from now on.”

I carry her through the door and up the stairs into the main house. “I can walk, you know?” she asks.

I nod my head and say nothing. I know she can walk, but I want to carry her to my bedroom. The overwhelming need to protect her is even stronger since she took a bullet for me. I’d have taken ten rounds to stop her from feeling that pain.

My muscles strain a little by the time I get to the top of the stairs. I walk toward my room, determined to carry my woman there. When I get to my room, I fumble with the doorknob. Finally, I get it open and step inside with her, kicking it shut behind me.

Alicia gazes up at me, smiling. “What are you smiling at?”

She shakes her head. “You, I never thought you’d be so chivalrous.”

I set her down in the center of my four-poster bed and climb over her on my hands and knees until I’m staring into her eyes.

“Hi,” she says.

“Hey.” I press my lips to hers in a quick, chaste kiss.

Even though we haven’t had sex in what feels like too damn long, I’m not risking hurting her right now. Instead, I shift to one side and wrap my arms around her, careful not to touch her wound.

“Helen is right, you need to rest up,” I say, pressing my lips to the back of her neck.

She shudders, arching her back, so the hard press of my cock rests against her ass. “I think that’s a bad idea.”

I groan as my balls tighten, and my body aches with need. It’s been far too long since I was last inside of my queen. “A bad idea would be me fucking you in your condition.”

She turns over and pouts at me. “She said if we are very gentle, it will be fine.”

I laugh. “When have you ever known me to be gentle?” She shifts in my arms and tries to get on top of me.

I hold her down. “No, if we do this, then I will make love to you gently.

I don’t want you overexerting yourself.”

She nods and falls back down into the bed, allowing me to move over her. Being gentle isn’t in my nature, but I’d do anything for her.

As I kiss her, I know, without a doubt, this woman is my soul mate. I wasn’t living until she came into my life. Now I intend to worship her like the goddess she is for as long as I live.