The Prodigy | ✔︎

55

Just as I did, both Alessandro and I's phone began to ring. When I glanced at the burner phone, I quickly recognized Alessandro's number. After answering, I pressed the phone to my ear.

"Orange," he said just before hanging up.

Good, everything was going according to plan.

"You look at your guns as if you are about to make love with them," Alessandro pointed out. I slammed my trunk door just before grabbing ammo for both of the guns.

"I have on a few occasions," I muttered, walking past him, preparing for the next stage of the plan.

Red-for the first part of the plan, my men were supposed to cover the west side of the house while Alessandro's men were supposed to cover the east side. With silencers and suppressors on everyone's gun, their job was to take out every bit of security they could find without alerting anyone on the inside. Once they took care of that and everything was clear, a few of them would break away to join me and Alessandro.

I glanced up to find Adriano, Savannah, and a few other soldiers of mine. With them, were some people I couldn't recognize-obviously Alessandro's people.

"Savannah begged to join us," Adriano stated, the moment he caught up with me. I peered at her to see splatters of blood on her face and arms. Although, what surprised me most was to see her. She wasn't assigned to help on this mission.

"Those sons of bitches are gonna pay for what they did to Leo. I swear if he dies, I will murder each of their families until it's the end of their bloodline," Savannah threatened. There was a murderous gaze in her eye-I believed her.

I never once questioned what was going on between Savannah and Leo. To me, it seemed as though they hated eachother. However, there was no bit of hatred for Leo evident in her words-quite the opposite, really.

"How is he?" I asked Adriano.

"Still in critical condition. He can't breathe on his own yet, so he's hooked up to machines, but let's just be grateful that he's still alive," Adriano said, glancing between Savannah and I.

I nodded. "Let's get this show on the road."

Alessandro had already begun to make his way into the house through the front. I headed toward the back. My men had already opened the back gate which made it easier for me to make my way in. The back door was a wooden one that looked like it had practically been bolted shut. With a nod of my head, my men helped me break it down.

Once in, I could hear the gunshots and shouts from people inside. I'm assuming Alessandro had already began the gunfight. There was a fresh course of both Russian and Italian tongues as my team dispersed into the first floor.

I hurriedly made my way to the second floor, shooting Viktor's men whenever I came across them. As I reached the top of the stairs, I took in the many bolted shut doors. Reyna could be in any one of them.

I could hear heavy footsteps chasing after me, I turned around sharply with my gun ready to fire only to see it was Alessandro.

"Did you find him?" he asked.

Just as I was about to answer, a door opened. Giovanni-no, not Giovanni-Viktor walked out with a sinister smile. What I hated most was the look on his face, as if he just declared himself a winner.