Union Of Death (Secrets of The Famiglia Part 2) novel Chapter 31

After 6-hours, it is close to morning time. We have met a boy named Sabastian, who as promised drove from Liston Hills to Barfa and as Kylie said she would arrange, we had a group of bikers that helped us from Barfa to a place called Kanla. The town is dead and quiet, perfect for Mero to hide in plain sight and Marco will never think to look so close to the Satan Sniper’s Motorcycle Club.

Mero is sitting on the blue and grey sofa, as Gabriel makes his famous coffee in the kitchen and I am standing by the wall stretching my legs while Michel is trying to fix the heater by the door.

“Maybe we should talk about why Marco wants your liver,” Michel says, not beating around the bush.

“He saw a video with me talking to Elise the day Jack Creston was kidnapped.”

“Elise? What does she have to do with it?”

Mero looks at me and sits up placing his face in his hands. We all wait to hear what is going on, and why my sister is involved.

“Elise and I were having a thing, it’s been on and off for a few years, and I loved her Aliyana. 2 months before Ren died, I found out something about her. I kept her secret hoping she would love me too. I wanted to marry her. I thought she’ll tell me herself, confess but she didn’t.”

“Fuck, did you pop her Cherie?” Michel asks and I glare at him, but all he does is shrugs as he lifts his jeans up and stands to his full height.

“No, she wasn’t a virgin.” I frown trying to think of how sweet Elise could not be a virgin? If Mero didn’t do it, somebody must have, so who?

“What is the secret? You said she has a secret?” Gabriel walks over with our drinks as Michel puts the switch on for the heater and the machine starts doing its thing.

“Elise isn’t your sister, she is the Catellis’. Capo Marcello was the one who slept with her mother, not your father. When Sabastian asked his dad, his father fed him a pint of lies. She fooled all of us, I had no idea how we were all getting played for years.”

“What?” The soft voice is coming from me, and I am still trying to wrap my head around it all. Elise? A lie?

Now isn’t the time to break and curse me for falling all these years. Believing she’s good. Alice was right the night when she said I didn’t know Elise, now she is gone back to Chicago.

“Fucking hell, shit fucker, what the fuck were you thinking Mero?”

“I fucked up.” He has lost so much weight these last 5 days, and I want to pity him but now isn’t the time. Nor is it the time to be angry.

“Yeah, well now they all want you dead. I told you not to go near Elise in the first place. Now you tell me she isn’t even my sister?” I move closer toward him, and Gabriel also sits down next to him. We know what love is like. It can make you do crazy things.

“No, she’s a Catelli, but a traitorous one. She’s sleeping with Lucca Sanati, the head of the Outfit, and he is double her age. He filled her head with so much shit, fuck Liya when she came to me and told me that Ren tried to hurt her, I didn’t believe her, and she got so mad that day. I went to go see her after I spoke to you. She was hysterical. I didn’t think she’ll get someone to kill Ren. But I figured there was something not right that day when my ring went missing.”