Free MOB BOSS 6: THE HEART OF RENO GABRINI (Mob Boss Series) by Mallory Monroe Page B

always got so quiet whenever Reno was
around.
    “I
was playing basketball,” Jimmy began.   But
his father cut him off.
    “I’m
not talking to you,” Reno said.   “You,”
Reno then said to Cooper.   “Tell me what
happened.”
    Cooper
swallowed hard.   “Nothing happened.   I don’t know why Mack called you in the first
place.”
    Jimmy
looked at Cooper.   “What are you
nuts?   You have to tell him, Coop.”
    “There’s
nothing to tell,” Cooper said angrily, staring at Jimmy.
    Jimmy
looked at his father.   “There’s a dead
body in the trunk of my car,” he said as if he still couldn’t believe it
himself.
    Reno
unfolded his arms and his two guards, hearing this news from where they were,
looked over too.   “A what ?” Reno asked, astounded.
    Jimmy
felt a surge of tears.   He wanted to fall
into his father’s arms at just the thought of the mess he was in, but he beat
back the urge.   “A guy, a dead guy.   His body is in my trunk.”
    Reno
frowned. “Who the fuck is it?” he asked, still unable to believe it.
    Jimmy
looked at Ashley, a move that led Reno to look at her too.   But Ashley looked at Cooper.
    “Lamar,”
Cooper said.   “His name is Lamar.    I don’t know his last name.”   He said this as tears began to appear in his eyes.
    But
Reno wasn’t buying it.   It seemed to him
that Coop made up that name off the top of his head.   Something wasn’t right here.   Something stank like shit to Reno here.   “Why is this Lamar in my son’s car?” he asked
Coop.
    “It’s
not our fault,” Ashley decried.
    Reno
looked at her.   “What?” he asked
irritably.
    “It’s
not my fault.   I didn’t do anything wrong
so you can step off right now and stop trying to pin it on me.”
    Oh,
yeah, Reno thought.   Something was
seriously fucked up here.   “Who said
anything about pinning anything on you?” he asked her.
    “I
know what you’re trying to do, but you can forget it.   It’s not my fault and you aren’t going to
make it my fault!”
    Now
she was just annoying.   “Who do you think
you’re talking to?” Reno asked as he began to move toward her.   Before Ashley found herself ten feet under,
Jimmy grabbed his father’s arm to hold him back.
    “She’s
just stressed out, Dad,” he said in her defense.   “We’re all stressed out.”
    Reno
started to tell that silly-ass girl what she could do with her stress, but he
knew he had bigger battles to wage than any fight with her.  
    “Tell
me what happened,” he said to her.   “And
leave nothing out.”
    Ashley
folded her small arms in a way that lifted her large breasts.   This was supposed to be one of her seduction
tricks.   Reno knew that game too well.   As if he could be that easily led!   His son could, and many young men like him,
but Reno certainly couldn’t.   But it was
so engrained in her to try, he knew, that she had to try anyway.
    She
was certainly pretty, he thought, which meant, undoubtedly, that she had his
son wrapped right around her finger.   Why
these young guys always went for looks first was a mystery to Reno.   He always went for sass first, even when he
was Jimmy’s age.   The sassier the woman
the better, in his opinion.   That was how
he ended up with a woman like Trina.   That was how Jimmy ended up with a woman like this girl here who could
bat those eyes and tease with a little cunt and make him feel as if it was his
obligation to protect her and to get her out of whatever mess she found herself
in.   Because there was no doubt in Reno’s
mind that whatever led to there being a body to put in a trunk, had everything
to do with her.
    But
Ashley still was resistant to talk.   Jimmy moved next to her.   “It’s
okay,” he said.   “My dad will look out
for you, don’t worry.   Just tell him what
happened.”
    “Lamar
came over to my house to hang out,” Cooper told instead.
    Reno
looked at him.   “You knew this Lamar?”
    “Yes,
sir.