Undressed By The Mafia God novel Chapter 504

Chapter 504: I Haven’t Seen Her

Valentina stepped out of the mall with Matteo strapped to her chest and a couple of shopping bags looped over her wrist. She adjusted one bag against her hip and looked down as Matteo shifted sleepily against her.

Then she saw one of Vee’s guards standing near the entrance. Val slowed. He looked up, spotted her, and moved toward her quickly.

"What are you doing here?" Val asked.

The guard frowned. "Mrs. Genovese said she was meeting you inside."

"Really?" Valentina asked, her confusion deepening. "When? I haven’t seen her."

"About an hour ago," he said.

Val stared at him. All she could hear was the guard’s answer repeating in her head. About an hour ago. "What? No. I would have seen her." She shook her head quickly. "I was inside. I was right there. How did she even know I was here?"

The guard had no answer. He only looked unsettled now, and that frightened her more. He turned away slightly and spoke quickly into his earpiece, alerting the second guard patrolling the other entrance.

That was when Valentina’s fear became panic.

"No," she whispered.

Matteo stirred against her chest, disturbed by the sudden change in her breathing. Val instinctively placed a hand over his back. Her heart was beating too fast. Her mind was already racing through every possibility, every terrible thing that could have happened.

Val stepped closer to the guard, fury and terror colliding in her voice. "Are you not supposed to be watching her? How can you not know where she is?"

"Calm down, Mrs. Montgomery," the guard said. "We will find her."

"Don’t tell me to calm down!" Her hands shook as she reached for her purse, needing her phone, needing to call Vee, Marco, Luca—anyone. Her fingers dug through the bag once, then again.

No phone.

She searched again, more frantically, pulling things aside, nearly tearing the lining with her nails. "My..." Her voice cracked. "My phone is gone." Val turned around sharply, eyes scanning the mall entrance, the crowd, the bright storefronts, every stranger suddenly looking like a threat. Her heart pounded so violently she could barely breathe.

"My phone..." She hurried toward the guard, panic tearing through whatever control she had left. "Call Luca! Call Luca you fuckers. Now!"

The look on the guard’s face told Valentina everything. He did not want to make that call. She saw the calculation behind his eyes—the dread, the consequences, the knowledge that telling Luca Genovese his wife had vanished under their watch was not a conversation any sane man volunteered for. But Val did not give a damn about their fear. Her sister was missing.

"We will search the mall first," the guard said, trying to sound controlled. "Just give us a bit."

"She has already been gone for an hour!"

The guards moved fast after that. One went back inside. The other remained close to her, speaking into his earpiece, asking for security points, exits. Val followed anyway, refusing to be left standing outside. She searched every aisle she had passed. The clothing section. The baby store. The bathrooms. Every time she saw a flash of dark blonde hair, her heart jumped.

It was never Vee. Fifteen minutes later, they had found nothing. No sign of Veronica. No mall security had seen her leave.

Nothing.

By then, Valentina was beyond hysterical. Tears streamed down her face as she clutched Matteo close and fought the urge to scream.

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