Page 58 of He is Poison

“That’s not fair, modelboy! I was distracted.” Seth moaned and put his fists closer by his face,taking a step to the side. “I’d like to fuck a model though.” He stuck histongue out at Dom.

“Yeah? We could pretendwe don’t know each other, and I’m a high fashion model.”

Seth zeroed in on hiseyes and licked his lips. “I’d take you shopping, Pretty Man.”

“You’d let me fuck youin the backseat of my car.” Domenico launched himself at the beautiful beastagain. Putting sex on Seth’s mind made him an easy target, and Dom hit the sideof his head without effort. Seth turned and tried to elbow Dom’s stomach, butDom managed to take a step back.

“Try harder, of I’ll usemy fist next time.”

The punished Labradoreyes he got were priceless, but before he could go through with it, his phonerang.

“Break,” he told Sethand reached into his pocket, picking up a call from Luigi. “Good afternoon. Howare things back at home?”

Seth instantly took theopportunity to sit down in the grass.

“Tense,” Luigi said.“Dino’s decision is not going down well.”

“I can imagine that.”Domenico dropped to the ground next to Seth and leaned into him, pleased withthe smell of fresh sweat. Ah, the labor of love.

“No decisions, nomovement has been made, but Vincente went to Palermo today. With theconsigliereand his son.”

Domenico frowned, noteven noticing when his hand went behind Seth’s back. Things were moving fasterthan he had expected. “What is the Don saying?”

“I don’t understand it,Domenico. He is as happy as ever. Always has that greasy smile on his face.Just today, he went for some tennis with an associate.”

Seth smiled at Dom and puthis cheek on his shoulder, happy as ever.

“Well, you’ll be happyto know Seth is trying very hard to step up to the plate.” Domenico nuzzled hischeek, although his mind was already racing to the three men in Palermo.

Seth’s smile got widerat those words, and he started picking on bits of grass.

Luigi growled. “Howhard? Can you feel it in him? Does he have drive?”

Domenico sighed andbriefly switched to German. “I don’t think so, but I’m doing my best. He’s hereby the way.” He then smiled and rustled Seth’s hair as he turned back toItalian. “That’s what she told me.”

Luigi was silent for afew seconds. “I want to talk to him,” he said finally.

“Alone, or do you wantus to use the loudspeaker?”

“Put the speaker on,”said Luigi and continued when Dom confirmed it had been done. “Good afternoon,Seth. This is Luigi Tassa speaking. How are you doing? Adjusting well?”

“I’m, um… hello, yeah, Isuppose. Domenico is teaching me lots of stuff.”

“We’ve been trainingsince the early in the morning,” added Domenico, smiling at him.

“And we went to churchof course.” Seth winked, but Dom knew Luigi wasn’t big on joking around.

“Good, it’s Sunday afterall.” Luigi thankfully didn’t get Seth’s sarcasm. “I chose this mission myself,Seth. It’s crucial for you to understand how important loyalty is. I believethat finding the rat in the Family and getting rid of him or her will be a goodshow of power, a first step. You need to learn quick.”

The smile on Seth’s facefaltered. “Yes, sir.”

“Do you know anythingmore about her background now?” asked Domenico, petting Seth’s back. Tensionwas clear in his body, and his tendons had to be stiff enough to hurt.

“Yes, the Triad madecontact with her in Beijing, when she was on a trip, but the insider from ourFamily actually met with her in Berlin. We suspect it was the insider arrangingher meeting with the Chinese, and that they knew Vera by further family ties,but we can’t trace it. Seth, do you understand we put extreme trust in you thatthis knowledge is shared with you?”

Seth swallowed, withoutlooking at Dom, focused on the grass instead. “Yes, sir. We’re working on it.We’ll get the bitch to talk.” It sounded more like something Seth thoughtsounded good than what he would actually say.

“We’re acting accordingto plan, but we’ll soon be able to seize her.” Domenico sighed and looked athis mentor’s name on the display. The more he thought about Vincente and theconsiglieregoing off to Palermo together, the more nervous he was. Especially that itcouldn’t be for a fuckfest in an expensive hotel.