Mafia Men: Nikolai's Inferno - Chapter 105: Chapter 105

.Evangeline.
A cold bucket of water was splashed over Lorenzo's face. His head lulled as he tried to open his eyes. I snapped my fingers in front of his face and then lightly tapped his cheek.
"Lorenzo? Get up!" I ordered.
"What?" he whispered, still reeling from the drug, "Mrs. Costello?"
"Evangeline! How many times do I have to tell you that!"
He looked behind me, his eyes wandering all over the dingy cell, "Why?" was all he could manage to say.
"What?" I asked, acting indifferent.
"Why did you..." he looked down at his leg, "What are you doing?"
"I'm not going to do you the favor of killing you," I sneered at him, "Although I'd love to. But if I do, I know my dear husband Nikolai will be out for revenge and it's not worth watching the people I care about die for the likes of you. I won't let precious people in my life end up as sacrifices just to avenge you."
His hands were tied behind his back, his legs were tied to the legs of the chair, "What did I do?"
"Did you or did you not kill my parents?" I tried hard to not lose my temper.
He looked at me with a frown, it annoyed me how relaxed and unbothered he was by all this, "I was just doing... Uh... my job, I had to kill them, I was ordered to kill them. I had no personal grudge-"
My mouth had gone hard, I clenched my fist angrily. I slammed my hands down on either side of his chair and looked him right in the eyes, "But did he tell you to rape my mother?! DID HE?!"
He shook his head, moving it slowly from side to side. "I never raped her..."
"Yes, you did! You liar! Nikolai told me what you did!" I snapped at his face.
He frowned, deep into his thoughts, "I never did that..."
I squinted my eyes as I thought about what Enzo told me and what Nikolai said that night. Didn't Uncle Luca say that Lorenzo raped her before death? And Nikolai said that Lorenzo tasted her blood or was I not remembering it clearly?
"What did Nikolai mean when he said that you tasted her blood?"
He pierced me with his gaze and gave me a menacing look, a look that sent an icy cold chill through my body. "I always do..." he whispered.
I grabbed his face with one hand, my nails dug into his cheeks through the thick beard, "What do you mean?!"
"I like the taste of blood." he declared like the psychopath he is.
I made a disgusted face and stepped away from him.
Enzo stood in the corner watching the exchange, he raised an eyebrow as I glanced at him. "What would you like me to do?"
"Do you want to kill me, Mrs. Costello?" Lorenzo asked from behind me and my head snapped back towards him. He smiled at me, although it didn't reach his eyes, "You can. I knew why you were taking me with you but I came with you anyway. If you want your parent's revenge, you can kill me, Evangeline. I did kill them, shot them to death but I never raped anyone in my life."
I pursed my lips and faced Enzo, "Enzo, a word?"
Enzo nodded and went outside with me. We closed the door behind us.
"What is it?"
I crossed my arms over my chest, "How did you know that Lorenzo raped her before killing her?"
"I told you that one of the servants survived, he saw the entire thing with his own eyes.."
"And where is he right now?"
"He is in Italy, why?"
"Because he is lying!" I snapped, pacing back and forth.
Enzo raised both of his eyebrows in a questioning manner, "How do you know?"
"Because Lorenzo doesn't lie. He had never lied."
My words made him laugh, "Are you serious? You're just gonna believe that psychopath on his word alone?"
I gave him a blank look, "Lorenzo is wired differently. He isn't afraid of anything, not torture or pain, he is not normal like you and me. I have lived with that man for months, and I know him better than not believing him. I think whoever told you about the rape thing was lying. How do we even know if he was there or not? He could be Nikolai's enemy, pitting us against one another."
"But we already are against one another!" Enzo snapped, frustratedly.
"No, we are not! I just want a divorce, it's not a war, Enzo. Don't make it a war. You can't face Nikolai in a war."
It was a fact.
"I have hand-picked every single one of these three hundred and thirty men to come here with you. These men are the best of the best; They are the cream of the crop. I have deliberately chosen each and every one of them. You are sure to defeat Costello in war with these men by your side."
I held my head in my hands, "Oh, god, not just me, Enzo but Uncle Luca is also not in the favor of a war. Uncle Luca is still the biggest authority in the Moretti family. You may not want to hear me, but you certainly should listen to him."
"How can you let Costello get away with this? He killed Mary Moretti! He murdered one of us."
"Enzo, I'm not stupid! Our men and resources are nowhere near enough to defeat Nikolai. We can't face La Cosa Nostra in a war. He will kill all of us and he will win, face the facts. I don't want our men to die for nothing. I'll get a divorce-"
"I don't see that happening, Evangeline."
I furrowed my eyebrows, "What do you mean?"
"He won't give you a divorce, either we go on a war with him or run back home with our tails between our legs."
"Don't be stupid, Enzo, we need to think rationally and strategically. I won't let him spill any more blood--he threatened us--all this will be child's play for him. You don't know him," I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose, "Just keep Lorenzo safe. That man in there is valuable to us, as long as we have him, we have Nikolai."
Enzo took a deep breath, "Fine, what do you want me to do with him?"
I glanced at the cell's door, "Right now, don't do anything. I don't want him harmed in any way."
Enzo clenched his jaw, his nostrils flared as he glance back at me, "Got it! But I'd like to interrogate him, I believe that he did rape her"
I nodded, "Fine, just don't do anything stupid..."
We were keeping Lorenzo in the same building as us and even these buildings weren't safe from Nikolai. I heaved a sigh and walked to the elevator to get back up to my room.
The second I opened the door, the ringing of my phone caught my attention. I walked to it, knowing well, who could be calling me right now.
I placed the phone next to my ear without even looking at who it was, "Nikolai?"
"Let. Him. Go."
I smiled, "Or what?"
"Don't fucking push me, Evangeline. I'm going fucking easy on you, don't fucking take advantage of that."
I rolled my eyes, even though he couldn't see me, "I am not pushing you. Lorenzo and I had some unfinished business. We are just catching up."
"You want me to believe that shit? You took him, Evangeline, you fucking took him! You made a big fucking mistake."
I sat on my couch, "And what are you going to do about it?"
"If any of you touch a single hair on his head, Evangeline-"
"He is unharmed, Nikolai. I told you, Lorenzo and I are just catching up nothing else."
"I want him back in an hour or else you won't like the consequences!"
"And I want you to sign those divorce papers in an hour or you will never see Lorenzo again."
He laughed, "Did you just fucking threaten me?"
"I did," I smile to myself as his tone turned more agitated, "You want Lorenzo, I want a divorce. It will be a clean trade, no one will get hurt. Sign the papers, Nikolai."
"I won't sign shit-"
I hung up, cutting his words off.
He was in the middle of his sentence when I hung up. I know it will piss him off even more than he already is but I didn't care anymore.