Chapter 12

Riccardo watched his wife sleep, it was early afternoon, but she had been through a lot and she needed the rest. He eased himself out of the bed and got dressed. He smiled recalling the earlier memory of them. After she had told him about the detective, he made per promise him that she would tell him whenever she was meeting up with Craig.

She nodded, not even having to think twice about his request, but her face still had a worried look. He kissed her to reassure her, but it turned into something more. She moaned and he pulled her onto his lap. Because, he knew that that Martin could walk in on them at any time, he lifted her and carried her to their bedroom.  

Once he had her in the room, his need for her became strong. She was the only woman who made his stop thinking whenever they were making love. All the little sexy sound she made drove him crazy. She couldn't imagine his life without her, he didn't know what he would have done if he had found out that she was working with organised crime to take him down.

He would not have been able to kill her, and he couldn't have done what Martin did and send her away. He would have kept her with him, even if it meant chaining her to the bed. He had no intention of ever losing his wife.

He leaned down and kissed her on the forehead, then turned and left the room in search of his best friend.   

Martin had been waiting for him for almost three hours, to get an update. But he knew that he didn't have to worry about Martin, his home was quite big and he was sure that Martin would find some way to entertain himself.

As if to prove him right, Riccardo walked into his seating area to find Martin and Maggie making out on his couch. The two were so wrapped up in each other that they didn't hear Riccardo approach.

"I'm beginning to think I walked into the wrong house."

Maggie pulled away from Martin, righting her clothes, and Martin just chuckled, earning a swat from Maggie.

"Hey, Rick, I didn't hear you coming."

"Obviously, Martin is all you seemed to see and hear these days."

Her cheeks flamed, and Martin smirked.

"What can I say, she just can't get enough of me."

Maggie elbowed him, causing Riccardo to laugh.

"Where is Michelle?" Maggie asked, looked around.

"Sleeping, was there something you needed to tell her?"

"Oh, no! I was just wondering. Martin called me over about an hour ago, said he was bored and needed the company."

Riccardo looked at Martin who was trying his best to look innocent. He was about to say something then he heard the screech of tires. Both he and Martin jumped up, and Michelle came out of the room towards Riccardo.  

"What was that?"

She reached him and he pulled her in his arms. He needed to go and investigate what it was, but he needed to make sure she was safe first. He turned her to face him, and just then they started to hear shots being fired. Maggie screamed and Michelle buried her face in his shirt and covered her ears.

He looked at Martin and saw that he was holding Maggie protectively. Martin nodded at him and he nodded back. They both knew what they had to do, but first they needed to make sure that the women were safe.

"Take Maggie and go to the office, lock yourself in and don't open the door or anyone, unless it's Martin or me, understood?"

The shots were getting louder and closer. Michelle looked at him like he was crazy and shook her head.

"I'm not going anywhere without you, come with us."

He kissed her hard on the lips and said, "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine, you just take Maggie and go."

She looked like she was about to protest, but he kissed her again and added. "Please, do this for me."

She nodded and reached for Maggie's hand. Maggie had a panic look on her face, she didn't want to go and leave Martin. She shrugged Michelle off of her and held on to Martin.

"I'm not leaving you, I'm staying. What is something happen to you?"

She was crying, so Martin wiped the tears away. He kissed her softly then hugged her close. He then pushed her towards Michelle, who had to drag her away.

"I swear to god, if you die, I'll find a way to bring you back and kill you myself, for dying on me, you hear me!?" Maggie shouted.

"Loud and clear," Martin said smiling.

Michelle turned to Riccardo and said, "The same goes for you, Rick."

"I have no doubt that you will," Riccardo replied.

Michelle and Maggie ran to the office as the men made their outside to join the fight. Riccardo was furious, someone came to his home and opened fire, and they scared his wife and put her life in danger. Riccardo was out for blood.

Just as they reached the door, two men with guns burst through it. They didn't even got the chance to raise their gun, as Riccardo and Martin fired off four shots of their own, hitting the men in their heads.

Riccardo security team were trying their best to handle the intrusion, at first he thought that it was the ghost killer, but remember that the ghost killer worked alone. Whoever was shooting at his people, did not know who they were dealing with. And he was going to enjoy showing them.

He and Martin joined the fight when they got outside, shooting at anything that came at them. Riccardo noticed that they were all trying to pass him to get into his house. He wondered what the hell was in his house that they were after.

After about half an hour of the gun play, they finally got control of the situation. Whoever was shooting at them, dropped back when they started losing more men than they were killing. A good few of his men went down. He was still hyped up and wanted to kill a few more of the cowardly bastards.

He walked over to one of them who were still breathing and kicked him with the heel of his shoes. The man groaned and coughed up blood.

Riccardo grabbed him by his clothes and punched him a few time, every emotion that he felt at the moment was place into the punch. The man was barely alive, his head was hanging to the side, and one of his eyes were almost out of the socket.

Riccardo was about to give him the final blow, but Martin stopped him.

"Before you kill him, find out what he knows."

Riccardo wanted to kill the son of a bitch, then get his gun and go after all the rest who dear threaten his family.

"Rick, I understand that you want to kill him. Hell, Maggie's life was put in danger too. But we need to know who sent them and what or who they were after."

He knew Martin was right. The man started losing consciousness and Riccardo slapped him awake.

"Who sent you!? What were they after!?"

The man said nothing, his head just fell to the side. Riccardo slapped him harder this time and he regained some consciousness.

"Tell me who send you?" Riccardo asked again.

The man coughed again, but this time he answered.

"Boss said, k-kill... the ghost killer's wife. You made a mistake, you... you left a witness she s-saw you kill Mr Abbot's wife."

 The man started laughing and coughing, "You killed his wife, now he'll s-stop at nothing to kill your w-wife."

Riccardo pulled his hand back and punched him, the force of the punch made the man's head snapped back. Riccardo then got his gun and emptied it in the man's face.

Martin put his hand on Riccardo's shoulder. He turned to look at his friend, the rage still running through his body.

"What hell is he talking about? Either they've got their wires cross or someone is setting me up for those killings."

Martin squeezed his shoulder, "We'll figure it out."

Riccardo nodded. They better and soon because there was no way he was letting anyone hurt his wife. He'd bring down hell on earth if they so much as harm one strand of her beautiful hair.