Desolation (New Rochelle Mafia #1)

15. CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 15

DRAKE

H anging up the phone, I throw it across the room and it shatters against the wall.

Evan comes around the corner into my office with curiosity on his face. “What the hell, Drake?”

“She’s gone,” I say angrily. “I have to go.”

Evan doesn’t even ask me who I’m talking about. He just tells me to wait up and grabs his stuff from his office following me out. Louis is waiting downstairs and quietly opens the car door for us to get in.

“Your Dad already has men out looking for her. She got the slip on Leon. Gio let her go to a bookstore just a few blocks down and she told Leon she was going to the bathroom. She had to have slipped out the back door. When he realized she was gone, he took off after her but there was no sign of her and it wasn’t longer than a few minutes,” he says, filling me in on the details.

Horror fills me. What if someone else grabbed her? She’s beautiful, and more than the mafia families around here traffic women. It could be anyone. Punching the seat in front of me, Evan and Louis look at each other in the rearview.

“You have to stay calm Drake. I know it’s hard, but you gotta keep a cool head so we can get her back,” Evan says, hand on my arm.

Taking a breath, I realize he’s right. Closing my eyes, I breathe deeply, calming my racing heart, cooling the heat in my body from the adrenaline, and an eerie calm comes over me. Until I get her back, I can become a machine. Only seeking her. Nothing else. I will find her. And I will kill Dominic when I do or whoever has her.

Opening my eyes, I look at Evan and nod. He must see the resolve in my eyes because he looks at me with wide eyes and frowns a little, but doesn’t speak. Whatever he sees in my eyes, he knows he needs to stay silent.

I’ll be the monster for her. I’ll get her back. Or die trying.