Total pages in book: 16
Estimated words: 14503 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 73(@200wpm)___ 58(@250wpm)___ 48(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 14503 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 73(@200wpm)___ 58(@250wpm)___ 48(@300wpm)
“Yeah.” I hear what I think is shouting, things breaking and crying.
“Luna. Luna, it's Martina.” My alert goes up. If she is calling something is wrong.
“What’s happened?” I ask, walking toward the door.
“It’s Giulia. She’s been kidnapped.” What the fuck. Everything around me begins to spin. She is the anchor of this family. Suddenly my father’s last words come back to me. She will be getting what is due to her. Soon. Son of a bitch.
“Who? Where?” I can hear what I assume is Nico on the other end yelling and screaming. I hear objects breaking.
“We don’t know but in her absence I am in charge and as I am sure you have guessed, it is all hands on deck.” There was never any question I am going to help.
“You got it. What’s the order?”
“Kick in every door of every enemy we have there. If you find nothing, expand your search throughout the state. I am sending you twenty guys.” My pulse is racing as a number of things go through my mind. My cousin being out there pregnant in danger and alone. My own delicate condition and the precarious situations I am now going to be in and…Wictor’s arms wrap around my waist both of hands on my belly. “Deploy them. Use them. Find her.”
“You have my word.” I hang up the phone and stare at the nursery I am standing in and close my eyes.
“What happened?” My husband asks.
“They took Giulia.” I turn to face him, and I see my thoughts shadowed back at me.
“Can you do this?” he asks, once again cradling my belly.
“I don’t have a choice. She is my blood. I won’t quit until she is found.” he nods and pulls me into his arms.
“Then let’s go to work.”
Peace will come for me eventually. Until that time, I will honor my family. Long Live HerMerta.