My Masters' Nightmare, Season 1 / Episode 14 Read Online Free Page B

enter. We’ve killed all but
one Donatelli. There’s also a Salvi hostage in here.”
    “ Rita! ” I pushed past Georgio, running
through the gate. Before me stood a two-storied, mottled gray
house, with a flat roof and vines climbing up the side. I burst
through the front door, demanding where Rita was. One of the Orsini
soldiers pointed at the lounge, saying something I didn’t hear,
since I was already running for it. I stopped behind the leather
couch, recognizing Rita’s brother. A soldier was untying him, as
well as trying to calm the hysterical man down. I headed around the
couch, stopping in my tracks at the sight of the two dead bodies
sitting on either side of Lucan, their hair dyed different tones of
red.
    The Orsini soldier removed the
remaining rope from Lucan. “Those two aren’t Salvi,” he said, “they’re
civilians.”
    “ I can tell. Let me talk to
Lucan.”
    The soldier moved aside. Lucan jumped up,
looking like he was about to bolt. I grabbed him. He started
screaming and struggling against me, trying to get free.
    “ Calm down, Lucan,” I
said. “I’m your sister’s boyfriend.”
    Lucan stopped screaming. He looked a lot
like Rita, only with a square jaw and long auburn hair. “Jagger?”
he said, squinting his eyes at me.
    “ No, his cousin
Frano.”
    “ Your brother hates my sister!
He hates her, he hates her!” Lucan started trying to get free
again, his voice childish. Although he looked in his late twenties,
he sounded and acted like a kid.
    “ Stop it, Lucan.”
    “ Alberto wanted to kill my
sister!”
    “ Lucan!” I
boomed.
    He went still, his face
startled.
    I lowered my voice again, but kept a firm
grip on his arms. “Alberto can’t hurt your sister, he’s
dead.”
    Lucan started trembling.
“ You’re his
brother; you’re a bad man too.”
    “ You’re wrong. I’m here to
help Sophia.
Tell me where she is.”
    “ No! I will only talk to Jagger.
He’s good, not you.”
    I exhaled loudly, beyond frustrated with
him. But I knew if I bullied him into answering me, he’d just
scream or cry, the man not having matured past childhood. I’d seen
him in the psyche ward once while visiting a relative. It had been
from a distance, but I’d still recognized him. I remembered being
surprised he was on the island, let alone alive, since I’d thought
he’d died. I had wanted to talk to him, but the nurse had said he
was too fragile, so I’d decided not to bother since I didn’t really
know the man, other than he was Sophia’s brother.
    “ I’ll call Jagger for you,” I
said. Letting go of Lucan, I pulled out my phone and speed
dialed my
cousin. Jagger answered a few seconds later. I told him what was
happening, and to ask Lucan if he’d seen Sophia and Christo. Once I
had an okay, I put the phone in Lucan’s hand, saying, “Jagger wants
to talk to you.”
    Lucan’s face lit up. “Jagger!”
He put the phone to his ear and started talking fast, asking
questions a child would. He stopped suddenly, then nodded.
“ Sì , sì ,
the bad man took my sister. He wants to tie her up in a barn. Barns
have horses.” Lucan continued talking about horses.
    I held out my
hand , having
heard enough. “Give me the phone, Lucan.”
    Lucan jerked it away. “No! It’s
mine now, you gave it to me.”
    I breathed out. “Okay, Lucan, you can have
it.”
    Lucan resumed talking to Jagger, asking him
to save his sister.
    I headed around the couch, finding an
Orsini soldier pushing a Donatelli one to his knees in front of
Georgio.
    Georgio pointed his gun at the Donatelli
man. “Tell us why you’re here? And why the hell there are two dead
civilians on the couch with dyed red hair, because the last time I
saw them, they had brown hair.”
    “ My Don made us dye their hair,”
the soldier replied, staring up at Georgio with wide
eyes.
    “ For what
purpose?”
    “ To trick a
woman.”
    “ What woman?”
    “ Sophia Salvi.” The soldier’s eyes
moved to me, his expression