Page 21 of Amadeo (Dark Legends #4)
Amadeo
Two weeks later…
My father hadn’t given up the search entirely as he kept bulletins up throughout the criminal world, bail bondsmen, private detectives and anyone else who looked for missing people.
He also finally called Jared Walker and told him what had happened.
He did inform him that a neurologist had confirmed that Deacon had total memory loss from a severe head injury and posed no threat as far as he knew.
He told Jared about offering a two-hundred thousand dollar reward for anyone that could lead them to Deacon Walker.
They were family now since Glory was about to marry Giovanno, so he would keep in touch as well as meet him at the wedding.
I happened to know my father hadn’t given up at all.
It wasn’t in him. Not a part of his makeup.
He even had a motto that hung on his study wall behind his antique Italian desk that read: Never say die, unless it is a promise to your enemy.
So any kind of defeat had always been something he could never accept.
His life had been dedicated to being on top.
To being powerful and in control. He had Deacon Walker in his clutches, ready to snuff him out for all his sins toward the Walkers and the Descalias, but finding Deacon seemed highly unlikely at this point.
He told Luca that the video of the escape had been corrupted the same day as it occurred.
So they never got the chance to study the moving images of the tall male that had scooped Deacon from his bed that day.
This had really upset him as it pointed to an inside job.
Hell, they escaped from the inside of our house.
He first had that carpet company checked over as they had been here the day of the escape.
Scared the two men to death almost, when he called them to the house to see what they knew.
Which was absolutely nothing. I believed them too when he’d had Rocky question them with threats and promises of pain.
My father even had all our staff re-vetted just to be sure. Searched their histories deeper, checked their bank accounts and any recent movements they had made since Deacon’s plane crashed. All to no avail. No one appeared to have any guilt.
It sounds cheesy but it really did seem like she and Deacon had disappeared without a trace.
That they had just slipped off the edge of the earth.
And from the inside of the estate, no less.
This implausible fact worried Rocky to no end.
How did someone sneak out like they had to have done?
While Tito took over the regular security detail, Rocky searched high and low all over the property with men who were expert trackers.
Even hired a specialty firm that used dogs to sniff out a trail that never came to fruition.
No scent left behind, no tracks or signs of anyone running away.
Luca reasoned that Nurse Jocelyn had definitely assisted in the getaway.
However, he couldn’t find any connection between her and Deacon Walker.
No proof that they ever knew each other before he became a patient at the hospital.
She in fact had a spotless background and with being a nurse for the Famiglia hospital, this came as no surprise.
Nor did Luca find any damning activity in her bank account.
Either in receiving a large payment, as in a bribe for helping or a trail of her spending anything by using her card the last couple of weeks.
His men made a visit to her apartment on day two of Deacon’s absence to find that nothing had been taken from there.
As in clothing or anything else. The security feed on and in her apartment building did not show any signs of her being present recently either.
So both Rocky and Luca had a rough couple of weeks, before my father finally ordered them to stand down.
Grumpy and bitter would be mild adjectives to use when it came to describing my father’s attitude after this.
He had kept himself locked up in his study for days on end.
Then suddenly, he finally came out to have dinner with the rest of us.
But when he entered the dining room, he paused to stare at Valencia in a not so friendly way.
Tito looked upset and stepped over to intercede. He never got the chance to do or say anything though as Zia stepped up and glared at her brother.
We all held our breath as we waited for a family fight…It never came. All she did was whisper, “L'avevi promesso.” You promised.
My father looked over at her and made no reply. Then with a shake of his head, he sat in his usual chair and had dinner.
We all wondered at this promise that we had heard mentioned only a few times since our childhood.
Neither my father nor Zia ever explained what promise had been made and why it had been made.
All we knew was that whatever it had been was a powerful weapon when Zia chose to use it.
No one else could ever stop that man with just two words.
After this, my father never treated Valencia with anything but smiles and respect. It seemed like he had simply forgotten his suspicions or he chose to keep the family happy. Knowing him though, he didn’t forget. But family meant everything to him.
Gia and I worried about Nurse Jocelyn and Deacon’s health at first but we figured the two of them must be safe somewhere.
If my father hadn’t gotten a hold of them, they had to have left the country.
This tall man who had orchestrated this escape had it all planned it seemed.
Whoever he was, he had done the impossible.
Gia had told me she was glad for it and I admitted to her that I felt glad as well. Why did I feel glad? Tito. He and Valencia were now planning their wedding and since we finally phased out of lockdown, they were busy with those plans.
As for me and the good doctor, we had grand plans as well. We also laughed a lot, we spent lots of time together and we took many trips to the stars.
NOT QUITE THE END…
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