I Locked Two Rival Mob Heirs In, So Neither Lets Me Go novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Pepeekeo
Mari's POV
The cousins at the gate did not move for me, and they did not move for Manny.
A dozen men in work boots stood in front of three flatbeds with their arms folded.
The oldest one had a bandage on his right hand.
I recognized the knuckles.
Manny did too.
He stopped three steps short of him, and I watched his shoulders come up.
Then pickup trucks began to arrive behind us on the county road, one after another, with their windows down.
The night shift was getting out of them.
They wore hairnets still, and rubber boots, and the foreman walked up to the front cousin with the sign-over paper in his fist.
"Move the truck," he said.
"Frank said," the cousin said.
"Frank doesn't sign our checks," the foreman said.
"Manny does, and Manny just told us we can sign our own."
Forty people in hairnets stood in the road behind him and did not say a word.
The cousin with the bandage looked at them and then at Manny.
He got in the first flatbed and backed it off the gate.
My hands had stopped shaking for the first time since the ballroom.
Dean's black sedan came up the road just as the last truck cleared.
Manny had texted him.
Dean got out and stood beside Manny in front of the whole Rapoza family without a word.
The cousins looked at the two of them for a long time.
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