His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika

Chapter 375

Vincenzo

“I thought you’d never ask.” Nico opened the dusty book, flipping through the pages. “Every 4th of the month, there is a secret and private auction held in a secret location.” He said. “The location changes monthly, and you can only get in through special invite.

“How did Fabio get in?”

“Your father went by the name of the peddle man.” Nico pulled a red devil mask from in between the book as a loud cackle escaped my lips. “He was well known and so heavily anticipated, they saved him for last.”

“So he really was a villain?” I grabbed the mask from Nico’s hand, waving it back and forth. Apparently, he took his job very seriously.

“These are the name of the associates and their phone numbers.” Nico ignored me, showing me a list. “Fabio used to call them from burner phones, made sure they couldn’t recognize his voice

With my finger. I scanned through the unfamiliar aliases and stopped at the name of the supposed supplier. “This man knew his identity-didn’t he?” I tapped the paper.

“He did. Nico confirmed. “His name is Marco. He’s a trustworthy man who could take a secret to the grave. He contacted me because he hadn’t heard anything from Fabio in years-and that’s when you crossed my mind.”

“What did you say?”

“That he’s dead…an unfortunate accident.”

“What did he say?”

“That’s he’s not surprised. Nico smiled softly. “I told Marco about his son who is made for greater success, and he told me to tell him to visit.” He shared. “Marco is a busy man, an intelligent man, so he moves around different countries in South America-but as soon as I’ll inform him you’ll be taking over the duties of the peddle man-”

“Wait, no, no, no!” I hurried away from the table, not liking where this was going. “I’ll be destroying those weapons at once, and I will not participate in Fabio’s nonsense.”

Nico went silent before a chuckle left his mouth.

“I’ve heard the Garcia’s reputation has been stumbling so bad-you had no choice but to marry the Morales girl.”

He was not beating around the bush.

married her for a

just about you.” Nico sighed. “You shouldn’t rely on your wife. She

her?”

My lips twitched as I smiled uncomfortably. I felt ashamed, humiliated-

had ignored her, treated her like shit-showed zero appreciation towards her, and blamed her for everything. Aria was

of motivating myself in order not to go through with the engagement, I made several scenarios in my

and

and you have no idea when that will end, but selling through the black market and referring the buyers, those big names, to the Garcias could gain your power and respect. In days.” Nico

in this. It was too dangerous, too risky, and

Nico laughed. “Had he known, the Garcias wouldn’t be struggling to maintain their status, and you would’ve not had

those weapons would’ve been back on the black

gave you the information and the books, I’ll be leaving

decision,” I told

me off, clicking his tongue. “How long will it take before you realize the Lambertis and the Alfonzos are only keeping you close to keep an eye on you?” He stated. “After they fell off with your

statement was questionable as Christian and Beau had been my friends for a long time. Despite the family feuds, Christian and I had grown up together, and Beau had been a close friend before

him-and see what’ll happen.” Nico continued as I lowered my head. “He’ll give you the same

he was

lunch, when Aria had exposed her hatred for Serena, Christian revealed this dominant vibe as if we were below him.

also believed she owed her an apology, but thinking about it-something about his commanding words and that look on his face did rub me the wrong

order, and why the hell did

not it.

eyes, but all I could see was Christian, who left me

life, and I did it to protect

was still alive and planned on killing the twins.

before Christian ended Fabio’s life, Fabio shot

unbearable pain and afraid of dying alone, I reached out my hand to him-he stepped back, looked me in the eye,

would do that?

to erase every bad thought. Christian trying to overpower everyone was not something new, and he also used to do it when we were children. That was just