Reno Gabrini: For His Lover (The Mob Boss Series Book 14) by Mallory Monroe Page B

dead
body, and she leaned away from him.   And
kept screaming.   She couldn’t stop
screaming.   She lost her mind, forget her
body, as she stared down the barrel of her husband’s gun.

 
    Trina opened the door and saw the tutors hard at work with
Dom and Sophie.   She also saw that Nanny
Pearl was close at hand.   Not entirely
unsurprising, Dom looked bored to tears, but he was nonetheless asking a ton of
questions.   Sophie was writing dutifully
with a smile on her sweet face, as if it was her pleasure to learn new
things.   And Trina smiled herself.   Two children could not have been more
different.   But both belonged to her and
Reno.   And she didn’t think it was
possible to love them anymore than she already did.  
    But right now, she had to get to work.   She closed the door of the library, walked
over to the Queen Anne desk, grabbed her purse and keys, and was about to leave
for work.   But her cellphone began
ringing.   Assuming it was Oprah,
wondering if she was on her way, she answered quickly.
    But it wasn’t Oprah.   It was Val.
    “Ma?” she asked.
    “Hey, what’s up?” Trina was about to grab her purse and keys,
but she heard Val sniffle.   She stopped
all activity.   “Val, what’s wrong?”
    “Ma?” Val asked again.
    “Val, what’s wrong?” Trina asked again, this time with panic
in her voice.
    “Jimmy shot Kap.   He
killed him, Ma.”
    Trina’s heart hammered.   “What are you talking about?   Who’s Kap?”
    “He shot him.   He
killed him, Ma.   He killed him!”
    “Where’s Maddie?”
    “With my dad,” Val said.   “He killed Kap, Ma.   Jimmy killed
Kap!   He killed him!   He killed him!”
    She was hysterical now, and Trina knew this was too much for
her to handle.   She ran up the stairs and
across the landing, yelling Reno’s name as she ran.   When she ran into the master bedroom, Reno
was in bed, asleep, their early morning sexual encounter still hanging heavy
over the room.
    “Reno!” she cried.   “Reno!”
    Reno finally heard her voice in his deep sleep, and woke up
groggily.   But when he saw Trina running
toward him, a look of pure panic on her face, he lifted up.   “What is it?”
    “It’s Val,” she said, placing her phone on Speaker and then
handing it to him.   “She said Jimmy
killed somebody, Reno!”
    Reno snatched the phone from Trina’s hand and threw the
covers off of his naked body. “Val?” he asked, as he got out of bed.
    “He shot Kap,” Val said, crying.   “He shot Kap.   Kap’s dead!”
    Reno looked at Trina with his who the fuck is Kap look.   She shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.   She didn’t know who Kap was either.
    “Where are you?” Reno asked and motioned at Trina.   Trina quickly grabbed a pen and paper and
took down the address.
    Reno was surprised that it was a Vegas address.   “It happened here?   You’re in town?”
    “He killed Kap, Dad!   He just broke in and killed Kap!”
    “Where is he?” Reno asked anxiously.
    “He’s here.   But he’s
dead.”
    Reno’s heart dropped.   “Jimmy’s dead?”
    “Jesus no!” Trina cried and grabbed Reno’s arm.
    “No,” Val said.   “Kap
is dead.   Jimmy killed him!”
    “Where the fuck is Jimmy?” Reno angrily yelled.   “I don’t give a fuck about no Kap!   Where’s my son?”
    “Reno!” Trina admonished him.
    Reno settled back down, rubbing his hair.   “Where’s Jimmy, Val?   Where’s your husband?”
    “I don’t know,” she said in her crying voice.   “He shot him and left.   I don’t know where he is, why are you asking
me that?   I don’t know!”
    “Okay, calm down,” Reno said.   “Calm the fuck down!   I’m on my
way.   Don’t open the door for anybody
until I get there.”
    “He kicked the door in.”   Her voice was whiny now.   “I put a
chair against it in case he comes back, but he can probably get back in if he
wanted to.   He pointed that rifle at me
too.   He