Mick Sinatra 3: His Lady, His Children, and Sal (13 page)

Roz was in that state of euphoria too, but she knew
somebody had to answer or they would have their entire security team breaking
down their front door.
 
She managed to
reach away from Mick, and press the button.

“Yes?” Her voice was barely distinguishable as Mick
continued to fuck her.

“They have arrived, ma’am,” Archie Bloom, their
front gate security chief, informed her.

Roz didn’t expect for them to come this soon, but it
didn’t matter.
 
“Tell them to wait
downstairs,” she said.
 
“We’ll be down
shortly.”

“Yes, ma’am,” Archie said, and Roz moved back to
Mick.

And Mick continued to fuck her.
 
He continued to fuck her with such mastery
that he began to experience a second round of cum, and she began having another
orgasm.
 
They fucked and fucked.
 
The bed was bouncing as they fucked.

By the time they were finished, and all of the
pulsations had finally made it to a place of rest, Mick was completely on top
of Roz, and Roz was almost off of the bed itself.
 
Mick pulled her back on, and got off of her.

It was only after that, after they had rested in
place for another several seconds, did Mick even realize the intercom had
buzzed.

“The children are here,” Roz managed to inform him.

Mick looked at her.
  
He didn’t understand.
 
“What do
you mean?”

“When I left my office, I called Teddy and told him
to get Gloria and Joey and come over.
 
I
told him you needed them.”

The idea that Mick would need anybody, let alone his
own children, was a crazy thought to him.
 
Before he met Roz he would have kicked the ass of anybody who even
suggested such a thing.
 
Needing somebody
meant accepting a weakness.
 
Even now he
couldn’t go that far.
 

“I don’t need any fucker on the face of this earth,”
he said to her in that harsh tone Roz was all too familiar with.
 
Then he swallowed hard, still staring at
her.
 
“Except you,” he added.

Roz didn’t expect him to admit even that.
 
It was a pleasant surprise because she knew
what it took for a man like him to go that far.
 
She felt such a special warmth toward him that she reached out and
squeezed his hand.
 
And then she began to
move her sexually overworked body.
 
“We
can’t just leave them sitting downstairs,” she said.
 
“That’s a fact.
 
So let’s get out of this bed.”
 
She began to get up.
 
“That is,” she added with a smile, “if I can walk
at all.”

Mick had to smile at that.
 
And then he laughed.
 
He felt so fortunate to have a woman like her
in his corner.
 
A woman who understood
him so completely.
 
He got out of bed
too.

What Mick and Roz didn’t realize, as they continued
to make love while the three siblings were being escorted into the home, was
that their activity could be heard downstairs.
 
For the final minutes of their intense passion play, Teddy, Gloria, and
Joey sat smiling on the living room sofa as their father and stepmother did
their due diligence.

“Damn,” Joey said, grinning, “Dad’s gonna break that
thang!”

Teddy laughed.
 
And they listened, and they listened.

As the bed shaking finally slowed and then came to a
stop, Gloria shook her head.
 
“It’s not
that much love making in this world,” she said.
 
“Good grief!”

“Speak for yourself,” Joey said.

Gloria looked at him.
 
“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It’s a man thing,” Joey said.
 
“That’s what it means.”
   
Then he looked at Gloria.
 
“A real man thing.
 
Not like those boys you date.”

“A federal agent isn’t a boy,” Teddy said. “At least
not usually.”

Gloria looked at Teddy.
 
“How do you know who I’m dating?”

“I saw you.”

Gloria was shocked.
 
“You’re the one who told Dad.
 
Aren’t
you?”

“Hell no,” Teddy said.
 
“I’m no snitch.
 
You know me better than that, sis.
 
But Dad found out?”

Gloria nodded.
 
“Yeah.”

“How?”

“How should I know?
 
One of his flunkies told him, I guess.”

“I’ll bet he cussed your ass out,” Joey said.
 
“How could you date Fed shit?”

“What did he say?” Teddy asked Gloria.

“He told me to get rid of him.
 
He showed me pictures of Marco, that’s the
guy’s name, with his wife and kids.”

“Damn, Glo,” Teddy said.
 
“He’s married?”

“Yup.”

“And you didn’t know?”

“I had no clue.
 
Of course I didn’t know!
 
The
bastard.”

“That’s what you get for fooling with Fed anyway,”
Joey admonished her.
  
“You know Dad
ain’t all legit.
 
You can’t have no
Federal agent up in our business.
 
What’s
wrong with you?”

“What’s wrong with you?” Gloria shot back.
 
“At least I wasn’t out there trying to be a
drug dealer.”

“That was a long time ago,” Joey said.

“It wasn’t that long ago,” Teddy fired back.

“Whatever,” Joey responded, and ended that line of
discussion.

 
“So what is
this about?” Gloria asked Teddy.
 
“Did
Roz say?”

“She said Dad needs us.
 
That’s all.”

“I told y’all what it was about,” Joey
responded.
 
“It’s about Adrian and his
dumb ass.
 
He tried to ice Dad.
 
Dad want y’all on the lookout for him.”

Gloria shook her head.
 
“I still can’t believe Adrian would do a
thing like that.
 
I know he doesn’t like
Dad, but big deal.
 
None of us do.
 
I mean, we love him, but we don’t like the
way he was never there for us.”

“It’s deeper than that with A-train,” Teddy
said.
 
“Adrian is the first born.
 
He was rejected before any of us were even
born.
 
And for a while after I was born
he didn’t know I existed.
 
He didn’t have
any of us around that he could point to and say, ‘ah, I’m not the only one he
doesn’t treat right.’
 
He was the only
one for a while.
 
He hates Dad.”

“But enough to want to kill him?” Gloria asked.
 
“I don’t think so.”

“It doesn’t matter what you think,” Joey said. “It’s
a fact.
 
Dad told me so himself.”

Gloria still couldn’t believe it.
 
Adrian had his share of issues, but they all
did.
 
The idea that he would put a gun to
their father’s head, the way Joey told it, and pull the trigger, was too crazy
for her.
 
She’d have to see that to
believe that.

By the time Mick and Roz made it downstairs, all
three were on their cell phones, pouring over text messages.
 
Mick wore a pair of spandex shorts and a
pullover t-shirt.
 
Roz wore a short
sundress.
 

“There they are,” Teddy said jovially and rose to
his feet.
 
Gloria and Joey, looking up,
stopped texting and stood too.

Roz smiled.
 
She was always amazed at how Mick’s children looked at him.
 
They would give her a glance, but their
entire focus was always on their father, as if they were in awe of him.
 
As if they still could not believe that this
great looking, powerful man belonged to them.
 
Their mothers undoubtedly hated this reaction.
 
They were there for their children, through
thick and thin, but Mick was the one they seemed to idolize.

“Hey, Dad,” Joey said as they approached the
threesome.
 
“Looks like you’ve been
working out.”

Gloria pushed him in his back.
 
“You so stupid!” she said.

“What did I do?” Joey asked, although he couldn’t
stop smiling when he asked it.

“Hey, Dad.
 
Hey, Roz,” Teddy said.
 
“Don’t
mind those two juveniles.”

Mick brushed it off, and Roz did too, although she
was a tad embarrassed that they apparently heard what they had been up to.

“Have a seat, guys,” Mick said, and all three sat
back on the sofa, with Gloria in the middle.
 
Mick sat in the flanking chair, and Roz sat on its arm.

“Want anything to drink?” Roz asked them.

“We’re good,” Teddy said, and the other two seemed
to agree.
 

“So what’s going on, Dad?” Gloria asked.
 
“Is it true about Adrian?”

Mick looked at Joey.
 
“I told them,” Joey said.
 
“Sorry.
 
I didn’t know it was a
secret.”

“It’s not,” Mick said.
  
And then he crossed his legs.
 
“It’s true,” he said to Gloria.

But Teddy was still stunned.
 
“So he did try to . . . kill you?” he asked.

Roz felt the pain when Teddy asked that
question.
 
She wanted to look at Mick,
but was too afraid she couldn’t take it.
 

Mick nodded.
 
“Yes,” he said.
 
“He would have
succeeded if I would not have emptied the chamber.”

“But why?” Gloria asked, a look of confusion on her
brown face.
 
“Why would Adrian do
something that crazy?”

Mick knew why, and on some level his kids did
too.
 
Mick would have preferred to
suppress it, but he wasn’t going to do that to them.
 
They deserved the truth from him.
 
“Hate,” he said.
 
“He wants to destroy me.”

“But why?” Gloria asked.
 
“I mean, I know you weren’t exactly close to
any of us growing up, but you’re doing better now.
 
A lot better.
 
Why wasn’t that enough for him?”

“Because his hate ran deeper,” Teddy said, and Mick
and Roz both looked at Teddy.
 
Because
saying that Adrian’s hate ran deeper, implied that the rest of them hated Mick
too, but not as much.
 
Teddy saw their
looks.
 
“I phrased that wrong,” he
said.
 
“What I meant to say---”

“They know what you meant,” Joey said.
 
“And you’re right.
 
A’s hate runs deeper than ours.”

Mick wasn’t going to verbalize it, but he appreciated
Joey’s honesty.
 
“The reason Rosalind
thought it was a good idea that I meet with you,” he said, “was to make sure
you keep me in the loop.”

“Concerning what?” Gloria asked.

“That Fed man you’re dating,” Joey said.
 
“What do you think?
 
He wants to stay in the loop concerning
Adrian.
 
If we see him, steer clear of
him.”

“Call me if you see him,” Mick said.
 
“If I’m not available, you call
Rosalind.
 
If she can’t be reached, you
call Danny Padrone.
 
He’ll handle it.”

“I don’t like him though,” Joey said.
 
“He always walking around like he’s running
something.”

“Don’t approach Adrian,” Mick said.
 
“Don’t do him any favors.”

“You don’t think he’d do anything to us,” Gloria
said.
 
“Do you, Dad?”

“There’s no way of knowing,” Roz said.
 
“He may attempt to harm one of you to hurt
Mick.
 
You have to be careful.”

It was only then did this craziness concerning
Adrian hit home for all three siblings.
 
They really didn’t know him as well as they had thought.

“Another thing,” Mick said, leaning forward.
 
“I need you guys to phone my office tomorrow
and leave me all of your numbers.”

Teddy frowned. “What kind of numbers?”

“Your cell phone numbers, your best friend
numbers.
 
Any and every number I can try
if I need to get in touch with you.”

Teddy smiled.
 
“So you gave up on having your flunkies follow us around?”

“We gave them the slip too many times,” Joey said
with a grin.
 
“I mean it’s easy!”

Mick nodded.
 
“It’s not a practical solution, that’s true.”

Roz looked sidelong at Mick.
 
“Oh, really now?
 
Not practical?
 
Then why do you still have an army of men
following me?”

Teddy smiled.
 
“Because you’re his baby.
 
He’s
not taking any chances with you.”

Teddy was smiling, but Roz knew that admission had
to hurt.
 
Mick knew it too.
 
“You’re entitled to your freedom,” Mick said
to his children.
 
“But I’ll be happy to
have a man on all of you, if you want.”

“No, thanks,” Joey said.

“No, thanks,” Gloria said.

“No, thank you very much,” said Teddy.

Mick smiled.

“But I still don’t understand how Adrian could do
such a thing,” Gloria said.
 
“It’s just
mind boggling to me.”

“It is what it is,” Mick said.
 
“You just stay clear of him.”

“I will,” Gloria said.
 
“Don’t worry.”

Mick nodded.
 
“Good.”

“I hear you aren’t the only one Adrian’s been
trigger-happy with,” Teddy said.
 
“I hear
he’s the one who took out Mo DeLuca.”

Mick and Roz both looked at Teddy.
 
How would he know anything about Mo?

“Who’s Mo DeLuca?” Gloria asked.

“Yeah,” Joey said. “Who is that?”

“Nobody for you to concern yourselves with,” Roz
said.
 
“I just want to thank you guys for
coming by.”

“I still don’t know why Dad needed us,” Joey
said.
 
“Stay away from Adrian.
 
He already told me that.”

“I’m telling you again,” Mick said.
 
“You always need to hear it twice.”

Teddy and Gloria laughed.

“Very funny,” Joey said.

“I also want to make sure all three of you
understand how serious a matter this is.
 
If he calls you, you call me.
 
If
you see him, you call me.
 
Understood?”

Teddy nodded.
 
“We understand.”

“And if we don’t call you?” Joey asked.

“I’ll kick your ass,” Mick replied.
 
And he replied in that completely serious way
that made them know he was completely serious.

“Anyway,” Teddy said, rising to his feet.
 
“I’ve got a hot date tonight.”

“With a dog no doubt,” Joey said, rising too.
 
“You never date hot girls.”