Page 169 of Vows of a Mobster

“It’s over now,” I mumbled to her. The look she gave me told me she didn’t believe it.

I returned my eyes to the screen.

“My mother will kill me if this gets out,”I heard the young version of Brianna mutter. She looked too young and too fragile. Maybe too naive too.“If she thought pregnancy ruined our family legacy, this will send it down in flames.”

Marissa was getting the body wrapped.“One of you two has to help me,”she grunted.

Daphne came to Brianna.“Here you take her,”she gave her Emma.“She can’t calm down with me.”

The moment Emma was in her mother’s arms, she calmed down and her crying ceased. Her eyes came to her mothers and their foreheads met. Just as they did earlier when she was sending her away with Daphne.

“Shhh, it’s okay,”she comforted the young infant. She was too young to have a child but nobody could take it away from her that she was a good mother.

“I never thought I’d say it’d be easier to take care of the dead body than a two-year-old crying girl,”Daphne joked morbidly.

I winced at the crude joke. So did Brianna.

“What about his laptop?”The young version of Brianna asked.“Should we take it or-?”

“Can you hack into it?”Daphne asked.

“No, I studied English and ballet, not hacking.”

“Giovanni can do it,”Marissa grunted as she tried to pick up the body.“He has a crush on you. Man, this body weighs shitton.”

“Should we tell him? So he knows what he is getting into?”

“Absolutely not,”Marissa shot Brianna a glare. “Kyle’s family has bad connections. It would cause a damn war between them and us.”

“I don’t understand. What war? What connections?”Brianna was oblivious to who Kyle was.

“Just forget it,”Marissa said. “We won’t tell him what happened.”

And there was the evidence that Giovanni never was part of it but he knew what happened. No wonder he was so protective.

“We are so going to hell for this,”Brianna muttered on the screen.

“At least we’ll be together,”Daphne chuckled.“Brie, you will have to leave Emma with me. You and Marissa go on the sailboat. You are the only one that can sail.”

“How is it that he has a sailboat? And yet, he was desperate for money? Don’t you think he would have sold that?”

“His cousin owns it,”Marissa answered.“The hot one.”

“God, I need a hot one,”Daphne complained.“I haven’t gotten laid in forever.”

“Are you two serious? We have dead bodies at hand. It is not the right time to talk about getting laid.”

“Okay, okay,”Daphne agreed.“I won’t joke about it anymore. So will you borrow the sailboat or what?”

“No, we have to sink it,”Marissa answered her.

“But why?”Brianna didn’t like it.“Isn’t it bad enough we killed? Now we have to add theft and destruction of property to the list?”

“C’mon, Brie. You were always an overachiever,”Marissa grinned although she struggled with the body.“What happened to you?”

“It could be that I got pregnant, my mom kicked me out, made me change my last name that wasn’t mine to begin with, and to put cherry on top, the only sex I ever got was lousy, it got me pregnant, and he tried to sell our daughter after knowing about her for a short three days. I think that might be an overachievement.”

“Yeah, I see your point,”Daphne agreed.