Second chance for the Mafia prince (January and Gulliver) novel Chapter 142

Giving In Part II

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Original composition by Tatienne Richard exclusively for My Fiction. If you’re reading this elsewhere it has been stolen from the platform.

January looked between Glenn and Ford who were nodding their agreement.

“I have a vest I usually wear when I’m out on business. As the Raptis prince,” he mocked, “I’ve had more than one attempt on my life. It’s a nearly paper–thin vest which is made of a bullet resistant material. It protects my back and my heart and my belly. It goes on under my shirt and doesn’t feel like anything than clothing.”

“You are wearing that!” she spit out forcefully.

“Yes, January. It was always the intention.”

“Damn right it was.”

“There is one unknown,” Gulliver looked around the table, “and we all know why I am not as into this plan as Grandfather.”

“Duchess.” Glenn said with a deep inhalation. “She’s fucking crazy.”

“She might have told Davis she wants me for breeding purposes and to steal my family but if we put January in her vicinity, she’s going to try to kill her. You heard her the night she was arrested,

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Glenn. She was blunt. If she ever got January alone, she’d slit her throat. By then she’d figured out I was playing her and looking for my missing woman. She hates you January because she is of the opinion, I would have looked the other way at her foolishness. She didn’t believe I was investigating her before you and that I only agreed to marry her because of the espionage. She wants to kill you in the most Brutal and desperate way possible.”

“Well, that’s kind of sad.”

“Sad how?”

“Well, she’s spent all this time dreaming of reaching her goals and we’re going to kill her before she gets the chance. It’s like someone running a marathon and croaking three steps before the finish line. Sad.”

At her words, Avner burst into laughter and Grandfather chuckled. Thisbe squeezed her shoulder as she moved to stand behind her.

January patted her hand softly, “I’m going to be fine, Thisbe.”

“How are you not scared?” Thisbe asked.

“I’m terrified,” January confessed honestly. “I am going into a situation where there are multiple crazy people in one room and all of them want to murder someone I love or me. I’m scared, Thisbe but it only means I really need to be vigilant, not go in thinking I can do more than I can and make sure I come home to my daughter when it’s all said and done.”

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Thisbe hugged her from behind, “I don’t want to lose you again.”

“You won’t. I’ll listen to Gulliver.”

“Like you’re doing a good job already?” he argued with her. “I mean I’m telling you to stay home but you’re not listening.”

She shot him a withering glare, and he smirked back with one eyebrow quirked high in his forehead.

“You two are adorable,” Glenn said suddenly. “Even in the face of danger the sexual tension between you is palpable. My money is on Kaylee having a sibling in under a year.”

January held up her middle finger but under the table, Gulliver’s feet intertwined with hers.

“Gulliver, I know you will keep me safe. We’re going to be outnumbered at the beginning but the minute we get Ernst out of the way, everyone else can converge. You mentioned to me before you are very good with a rifle and could pick people off at a distance. I could go in alone and you could …”

“You are not going in alone,” Gulliver rolled his eyes and looked at Ford, “though her idea for someone in a sniper position isn’t a bad idea.”

“That is true but,” Ford held up his phone, “I have the sat image of the motel. Just came through from tech. There’s no place to put me in a perch. There is, in fact, no way for any of us to approach without being seen. If he has a team on the highway in

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“Then you come in by chopper, hot and fast.” Gulliver motioned to Thisbe. “Go down to your room. Get those flared leg pants about which you were talking. January, hair in a ponytail, as tight as possible, a bun even if you can. I want when Glenn and Ford and our team get there, that your hair isn’t in the way of a clean shot. Find whatever jewelry you think you can defend yourself with. Thisbe, check in your jewelry as well. Glenn, get me a knife and a Velcro wrap for January’s ankle.” Gulliver got up, “January, I need to know how hard you can punch.”

“What?”

“How hard can you punch? You told me you were doing self–defense before. You kicked me in the knees and smashed my nose, damn near broke it, but were you pulling the punch when you hit me?”

“No,” she paused, “a bit. I was pulling it a bit but not much. I was angry.”

“You need to hit harder than you did with me. Davis is an FBI agent second, but he is not in bad shape. He’s going to be strong. I need you hit hard and in all the spots that count. If you can’t stab him, you hit him.”

“Okay.”

“Duchess may come at you. You fight dirty if she does. She’s trained. She’s been training to take as an assassin in her family since she could walk and talk. She will slit your throat with her

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fingernail if she can. You slit hers first, am I clear?”

“Yes.”

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