Reno Gabrini: A Family Affair
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Authors: Mallory Monroe
RENO GABRINI
A FAMILY AFFAIR
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MALLORY MONROE
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INTERRACIAL ROMANCE SERIES
BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
MALLORY MONROE:
THE SINATRAS OF
JERICHO COUNTY
SERIES IN ORDER:
BIG DADDY SINATRA
THERE WAS A
RUTHLESS MAN
BOOK ONE
BIG DADDY SINATRA 2
IF I CAN’T HAVE
YOU
BIG DADDY SINATRA 3
THE BEST OF MY
LOVE
BRENT SINATRA
ALL OF ME
MICK SINATRA
FOR ONCE IN MY
LIFE
BOOK ONE
MICK SINATRA
LOVE, LIES, AND
JERICHO
BOOK TWO
MICK SINATRA
HIS LADY, HIS
CHILDREN, AND SAL
BOOK THREE
THE PRESIDENT’S
GIRLFRIEND
SERIES IN ORDER:
THE
PRESIDENT’S GIRLFRIEND
THE
PRESIDENT’S GIRLFRIEND 2:
HIS WOMEN AND HIS WIFE
DUTCH AND
GINA:
A SCANDAL IS BORN
DUTCH AND
GINA:
AFTER THE FALL
DUTCH AND
GINA:
THE POWER OF LOVE
DUTCH AND
GINA:
THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
DUTCH AND
GINA:
WHAT HE DID FOR LOVE
FOR THE LOVE
OF GINA
BOOK EIGHT
THE MOB BOSS SERIES
IN ORDER:
ROMANCING
THE MOB BOSS
MOB BOSS 2:
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
MOB BOSS 3:
LOVE AND RETRIBUTION
MOB BOSS 4:
ROMANCING TRINA GABRINI
A MOB BOSS
CHRISTMAS:
THE PREGNANCY
(Mob Boss 5)
MOB BOSS 6:
THE HEART OF RENO GABRINI
RENO’S GIFT
BOOK 7
RENO
GABRINI:
A MAN IN
FULL
BOOK 8
RENO AND
TRINA:
GETTING BACK
TO LOVE
BOOK 9
RENO AND
SON:
DON’T MESS
WITH JIM
BOOK 10
MOB BOSS
ELEVEN
THE WRONG
ONE
BOOK 11
RENO AND
TRINA
IN THE
SHADOWS OF LOVE
BOOK 12
THE GABRINI MEN SERIES
IN ORDER:
ROMANCING
TOMMY GABRINI
ROMANCING SAL GABRINI
TOMMY
GABRINI 2:
A PLACE IN HIS HEART
SAL GABRINI
2:
A WOMAN’S TOUCH
TOMMY GABRINI 3:
GRACE UNDER FIRE
SAL GABRINI 3:
HARD LOVE
SAL GABRINI
4:
I’LL TAKE YOU THERE
TOMMY
GABRINI 4:
DAPPER TOM BEGIN AGAIN
SAL GABRINI 5:
UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME
SAL GABRINI
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Iceman Nelson lifted the crowbar as if it were a
golf club, brought it down with a wide swing, and slammed it across the back of
Reno Gabrini.
Reno fell to his knees.
“You think this is some kind of fucking joke?” Ice
was angrier now.
“You think I’m playing
with your ass?
Where is that bitch,
Gabrini?
Where’s Trina?
Tell me where we can find her, my men will
secure her, and you’ll live.
Keep
pulling this silent shit on me, and you’re a dead man.
And guess what?
She’s going to be dead too because I will
find her.
No matter how long it takes, I
will find her.”
He slammed the crowbar
across Reno’s back again.
“Talk,
motherfucker.
Talk!”
Reno flinched in pain, but he didn’t say a
word.
His eyes were swelling, his
stomach had been beaten so badly that it felt as if it was churned into raw
hamburger meat, and his hands and legs were chain-shackled together as if he
was their legal prisoner, not their illegal captive.
But he kept his eyes, not on the two flunkies
flanking their boss, but on the boss himself.
He kept his eyes on the Iceman.
And all he could think about was how much pain he was going to inflict
on that bastard when he got out of this fix.
But it was a hell of a fix.
He
was in chains, he had been worked over ever since they nabbed him: he was in
trouble.
And what Ice wanted him to give
was the one thing Reno Gabrini would never give.
They were on a bridge that shut down in the middle
of construction years ago, and now led to nowhere on a backroad nobody traveled
anymore.
But the Iceman was getting
tired of this useless exercise.
He knew
Reno would be a handful.
He knew he was
a strong man who wouldn’t bend easily.
But he wasn’t bending at all.
“All you have to do,” Ice said, “is turn her
over.
You give me Trina, and I’ll give
you life.
No Trina, no life.”
Then he lifted that crowbar again and slammed
it across Reno’s back again.
Reno bend
down in pain again, but he didn’t bow.
“I’m not fucking you with, Gabrini!” the Iceman yelled.
“You think I’m fucking with you?”
But Reno wasn’t fucking with him either.
And that undeniable fact was already
painfully obvious to the two ex-cons on that bridge with Iceman: Copperton
Pechetti and Ridge McCumberland.
They
knew Gabrini wasn’t like them.
They’d
give up their wives, sisters and brothers without batting an eye if it would
save their own lives.
But they knew Reno
Gabrini wasn’t cut from the same gangster rags they were cut from.
Reno wasn’t giving up shit.
A van drove up on the bridge and parked behind the SUV.
Mike Rawls got out from behind the wheel and
gave the thumbs up.
Pechetti looked from
the van to Ice.
“It’s time to raise the
stakes,” he said.
“It’s time for plan
B.”
Speaking up like that was a risk and Pechetti knew
it.
Ice was a very unpredictable
man.
But it had to be said.
It was their trump card, and it was time to
play it.
Ice looked back, saw that the van had arrived, and
gave the okay.
Pechetti then nodded to
Mike Rawls.
As Rawls walked around to
the back of the van, Ice motioned for McCumberland to stand Reno back up.
Pechetti stood Reno back onto his wobbly
feet.
“You’re a tough guy, Gabrini,” Ice said.
“I give credit where credit is due.
But I’m tough too.
And your chance of getting out of this alive
just changed dramatically.”
As soon as he uttered those words, Rawls came from
behind the van carrying a pretty little biracial girl in his arms.
Reno’s vision was blurred from the beatings,
and he knew a beat down could promote hallucinations, but when he saw that little
girl he knew it was no mirage.
His eyes
stretched so wide they seemed to fill the sockets.
He’d recognize his child anywhere!
But how could they have Sophie?
How could this be?
“That’s right, Reno,” Ice said with a smile.
“I’ve got your little girl.”
Reno’s heart dropped like a lump of steel.
“
Nooo
!”
he roared.
“
Nooo
!”
He started moving
side to side, like a caged animal.
“
Nooo
!”
When Sophia heard her father’s cry, and saw him on that
bridge, she began wiggling and squirming to get out of the brute’s arms.
“Daddy!” she began to cry, her little arms
outstretched.
“Daddy!”
“Give me Trina or the baby bitch is dead,” Ice
warned as the brute ran with Sophia to the railing.
When he dangled her small body across the
rail on the highest peak of the bridge, Reno’s heart stopped.
“Where’s Trina?” Ice asked, unconcerned with Reno’s
sudden distress.
“Where did you take
her?
I’m not parting this world until
you give her to me!”
Reno looked at his daughter as she struggled hard
against the brute’s grip.
She looked
down at the roaring waters beneath her small body, and fought even harder.
“Okay,” Reno said.
“Okay!
Pull her back and I’ll
tell you everything you need to know.”
And he was going to tell.
Not the
truth of Trina’s location, he could never tell that.
But he had to give them enough to buy Sophie
some time.
They were going to kill him
once they realized he was lying to them, but at least he would have more time!
Ice lifted his arm for Mike to pull Sophia
back.
But Sophia was wiggling and
squirming so hard in Mike’s arms that he lost his grip.
And to Reno’s utter shock, to Pechetti and
McCumberland’s shock too, Sophia began slipping out of Mike’s arms before he
could reel her back in.
Reno was
screaming, he was crawling out of his skin as he saw his child reach out
grabbing, but only grabbing at air, as she fell away from Mike’s grasp.
As she fell.
Reno’s heart stopped.
And the silence became pure panic.
“No, you stupid fuck!” Pechetti was yelling
as he ran toward Mike.
Ice looked too.
“He dropped her!” McCumberland yelled.
“That idiot dropped her!”
They were both amazed at what they were
witnessing.
But Reno didn’t have the luxury of being
amazed.
He was too concerned with saving
his child’s life to be paralyzed with fear.
It was now or never.
It was his
life for hers.
It was no debate!
Reno tore away from his distracted captors and
slammed his muscular body against the rail as hard as he could.
The pain of that slam was so excruciating it
nearly took his breath away, but it was enough to give his body the lift it
needed.
And with that lift he propelled
himself high over the rail, and fell in too.
He was falling from the bridge just as his daughter was falling into the
river, and going under.
Pechetti and McCumberland pulled out their guns and
began firing shot after shot at Reno.
Even though they knew their chance of finding their real target, Katrina
Gabrini, was going up in smoke with every round, they also knew they had no
choice.
They just killed the
daughter.
Reno Gabrini’s daughter!
An alive Reno Gabrini, with vengeance on his
mind, was far more dangerous to them than a dead Reno Gabrini.
They still would have Sal and Tommy Gabrini
to contend with, and they didn’t even want to think about Mick the Tick.
But at least they wouldn’t have to worry
about Reno.
But Ice was worried about Trina.
While they fired those shots, he ran toward
the SUV.
He knew Reno’s state.
He knew Reno was not only shackled, but was
falling into a raging river.
No man
could get out of a hell like that alive.
That was why, as Reno’s shackled body hit the waters
hard, and submerged beneath them just as his daughter had done, Ice got in that
SUV, turned around, and took off.
He
didn’t give a fuck about Reno.
He had to
find Trina.
She got away from him once,
but never again!
His men were running too, for the van, as if they
realized Reno’s fate was already sealed and they were shooting at a dead
man.
Reno was in that river.
His daughter was in that river.
It was over.
But the waters beneath that bridge ripped and roared
even more violently, splashing and crashing against themselves in thunderous
claps, as if it was only the beginning; as if even those waters knew the power
of the cargo they now possessed.
