Debt to the Mafia Prince

Chapter 13

—MICHELE—

“You know, this would be much easier if you just told me what I need to know Tony!” I growled. Tony was hanging from the chains in the ceilings by his wrists. He was weak and limp, hardly able to hold himself up. 

I’ve kept him here for the past week with very little water. I only gave him some bread every three days and he is starting to lose his muscle. His grey t-shirt hung loosely from his shoulders from the lack of nutrition, he was getting skinnier and skinner every day. I took the hand towel from the table and wiped my swollen knuckles. My hands were covered in his blood and slightly swollen from torturing him for the past hour, he is a tough one to crack. 

“I’ll ask you one more time Tony, how many men are guarding Ezio’s place?” I repeated my question. 

He started chuckling to himself, shaking the chains from above. I smirked and picked up a pair of pliers from the wrack of tools behind me. I was beginning to lose my patience with him. 

It’s been a week since Amelia handed herself over to Ezio. I know just how sick the man can be because he reminds me of my dad. Ezio loves to punish women and force them to obey his orders. He even does it with his wife which I found disgraceful. You’re suppose to treat your woman with respect and protect her from harm, not inflict it and make her into a puppet. I worried about the cruel things Ezio has done to Amelia already and it only made me more desperate to find her. 

I slowly walked over to Tony, maintaining the smirk on my face. He was grinning at me, flashing his blood-soaked teeth. I gripped the back of his neck and tilted his head back sharply. His mouth opened and I placed the pliers inside. When I gripped onto his bottom tooth, he broke. 

“Okay, okay!” He panicked and I gave him a smug look. I took the pliers from his mouth and dropped them to my side. 

“Talk!”

“Ezio’s place is well guarded. He has 20 men at the front and back of the house and 10 on each side and that’s just around the building. There is another 30 inside and 20 at the front gate, Amelia’s room will be well protected” he confessed. I walked back over to the tool table and placed the pliers back down. I kept my back turned from him and hid my angry expression. 

“Anything else I need know?” I asked quietly. 

“There is one way in and out of the building that isn’t guarded...” he began. He gained my attention, I turned to him and folded my arms across my chest. 

“Go on?” I pressured him and he grunted. 

“There’s a hill on the West side of the building, Ezio’s dad built had an emergency escape route built in years ago just in case. He has an office which is hidden in the basement, that’s where the tunnel leads” he confessed reluctantly. 

“Is that all?”

“You can only get to the office from the door upstairs, there is a locked door that has steps leading down to his private room. The hatch is underneath his desk, that’s where the tunnel is” he finished. I narrowed my eyes at him slightly and took out my gun. 

“I’ve told you everything!” He yelled and I chuckled. 

“That’s why I’m killing you quickly” I stated and pressed the cold metal against his forehead. 

Without a moments hesitation, I pulled the trigger and an ear deafening sound echoed through the room. He went completely limp and blood dropped down his face. I walked out of the room, leaving his lifeless body to hang there and faced Sal who was waiting outside the metal door. 

“That’s a lot of guys boss” he worried and I rolled my eyes. 

“With my men plus Lorenzo’s they’ll be outnumbered” I replied confidently. 

“Get someone to drop his body to Ezio in return for his flowers” I demanded and left the outhouse to return to the main building. 

When I walked in, Alex came running over to me with excitement. However, it didn’t last long when she noticed the blood all over my clothes. 

“Is... is that...” she stuttered. 

“Tony’s blood? Yes, he’s being taken back to Ezio” I replied bluntly. She let out a sigh of relief and slumped her shoulders. 

“I must admit, I’m surprised at the mercy you have shown him” she assumed. It took me a moment to realise why she was so relieved, she thought I had just beaten him up. I laughed loudly and then shook my head at her.

“Who said he was alive?”  Her face dropped and she stared at me. 

“You... killed him?” She asked with a shaky breath. 

“What did you expect? I can’t have him going back to Ezio and informing him of my plans or giving him the impression that we’ve been looking for her”. She was silent as she stared at the floor. She knew I was right to cover my tracks but I know she had a soft spot for Tony.

“What were you so happy about anyways?” I asked, trying to change the subject. 

“Nico rang earlier, he’s on his way back with my sister” she replied in a dull tone. 

“Did he say what time he’ll be back?”. 

Alex shook her head, still sulking like a child. I rolled my eyes and walked past her, making my way to the bathroom to get cleaned up. I didn’t have the head space to be sympathetic towards her right now.

When I had finished in the shower, I wrapped a towel around my waist and headed out of the door. I had decided to shower downstairs because it was the closest bathroom to where I was at the time. I soon regretted it when I bumped into Elena before I could reach the stairs. 

“Michele!” She exclaimed excitedly, scanning my half naked body from head to toe. I forced a smile and greeted her as kindly as I could. 

“Elena, to what do I owe the pleasure?” I asked, trying to figure out why she was here and why I wasn’t told she was coming. She stepped closer to me and ran her long nails down my bare chest, humming as they dropped to my abs.

“I have some more information for you about Ezio. I thought we could having a private meeting to discuss it” she flirted and placed her lips against mine. 

I was caught off guard but tried my best not to throw her across the room. I wasn’t in the right mind set to be gentle and charming, I’ve just murdered Tony. I used my adrenaline to my advantage and pulled her in deeper. 

“Get to my bedroom and we can come to some sort of arrangement” I growled at her and followed her upstairs. 

I use to f**k the whores who worked for me whenever I had just committed a violent act to release some of the aggression that was inside of me. I returned to that mind set with Elena as I know how much she loved having aggression taken out on her sexually.