𝐏𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢

25 | Fun

"Yeah we are, I'm not having this discussion without the one person who knows Galen Andino best. I'm pretty sure his son would know him best, don't you?" I question, narrowing my eyes at my older brother.

He huffs, "and what if he's a spy?"

"Fuck seriously? I thought I had the conversation with you." I grumble.

"Val —" Ivan starts, I cut him off, "look I don't give a shit if none of you don't trust him, hell I don't fully trust him but he's our best bet if we're going to take Galen down. Isn't that what you all want? You all know I'm right but are being too fucking stubborn, pull your heads out of your arses and buck up or shut up."

"I agree with Valentina," Nonno says, speaking up.

I smile at my grandfather appreciating the support, not that I needed it though. If they didn't agree I would have left and dealt with it all on my own instead, it's the thought that counts though right?

"Fine." Luc sighs, he nods at Felix who leaves to get Milos I assume.

While we're all waiting some of them start up conversations between themselves, I pull out my phone and start to play candy crush. I'm on level 283 and I'm killing it, the door opens but I don't lookup. The room falls silent except for the sound of my phone as I continue to play my game, I look up and everyone's staring at me, "continue," I said before looking back at my phone.

"Right, I'm glad we're all here and safe. Thank you Messiah and Milos for helping bring everyone here, we appreciate it. We need to pull all our resources together and fight against Galen, I've got all my men reaching out to contacts to find any information they can." Luc states.

"Well I can tell you that my father knows that my brother and I turned, I got word from a friend of mine in our mafia who is loyal to me. He also said that my father is hiding now but he's working with some of his closest allies in our mafia to come up with a plan to kill us all. Our mafia is currently split down the middle, some aligning with him, the rest aligning with me." Milos supplies.

"Will they fight with us?" Dad asks.

Keeping my eyes on my phone, lining my candies up I hold my breath waiting for his answer. I know what he's going to say, he's going to say yes but I don't want his mafia to fight with us.

"Don't make them fight with us," I interject.

"What? Why?" Uncle Alejandro asks.

"We don't need them, all we need is to cut the head off the snake meaning Galen. Weed out his closest allies by killing them of course," I grin before continuing, "Milos then becomes Don and they will all fall in line, Milos does not have to sacrifice half his mafia for us. Besides, most of those men don't deserve to die because some dick is power-hungry." I finish.

I sneak a glance at Milos who is standing beside Mez, frowning at me. Probably confused as to why I give a shit about his mafia, truthfully I don't but like I said half of those people don't deserve to die.

"You know your father the best, where would he be hiding?" I ask Milos, glancing back down at my phone.

"Mexico." He says, I freeze and my gaze snaps up to him and my eyes widen.

"Why would he be in Mexico?" Alec asks, confusion laced in his tone. I shoot a worried look to Nate, who sends me one in return.

"Don't fucking say it," I whisper under my breath quietly, closing my eyes.

"Because he'll be working with his best friend who owes him a favor," Milos replies.

"Who?" Luc asks.

"Don't fucking say it," I whisper to myself again.

"Carter Lopez," Milos replies.

My eyes snap open and I glance at Felix who tenses, shooting me a what——fuck look. Laughter bubbles up and I let it out and everyone in the room looks at me like I'm crazy, I continue to laugh.

"Fucking hell —" I laugh harder, tears springing to my eyes, "of course he's fucking best friends with him, just the icing on the cake. No worries though, two birds with one stone."

"You know Carter?" Milos asks, frowning.

"Unfortunately yes, I dated his son a long time ago and I killed his daughter a week ago. He wouldn't miss an opportunity to come after me or my family, he's also responsible for Felix's family's death." I sigh, leaning back in my seat.

Milos's eyes bug out of his head, "well seems it wouldn't have mattered if my father worked with Carter, looks like you're already on his shit list."

"Okay, if I have this correctly — Galen Andino is currently in Mexico working with Carter Lopez who's the kingpin in the Mexican Cartel?" Luc asks.

Looking around the table at everyone's reactions and they all vary from Ivan looking pale, Luis frowning, Uncle Alejandro just blinks unfazed, my brothers are all angry but Nate's grinning.

My eyes connect with Nate and I grin back, his widens even more. This is going to be fucking fun, we'll take out Galen first and we'll leave Carter for last so Felix can take his sweet time with him.

"Yup," I say, my cheeks hurting from grinning. Everyone else eyes me warily, making me chuckle.

This is going to be very fun.