Page 50 of Nolan (The Doherty Mafia)
Reese told me everything that happened since this war started. How he’d tried to hurt and kill almost every member of the Doherty family. Aldo was ruthless. He wouldn’t have spared anyone if he had the chance to kill them.
What would he have done to me once I’d fulfilled my use to him? He was already growing impatient with me. Maybe in a few more days, if Nolan hadn’t thrown me in his car and brought me here, my life would’ve been in serious danger. My own father might have killed me.
“He’s a monster,” Reese continued. She must have noticed the look on my face, like I struggled to come to terms with my conflicting emotions. “But he’s also your father.”
“I don’t know how I should feel about him.”
“Whatever you’re feeling right now, is valid, but you should know that my husband and his family…and not even Nolan, are going to spare him.”
I nodded.
“It’s what needs to be done. I guess I just wish that I could confront him. Just to have one last word with him…I don’t know.”
“And if you did have that opportunity with him, you’d be gravely disappointed. Aldo doesn’t have a soft bone in his body. He feels nothing. He used you. His own daughter. He left you in the system for years and then went to find you when he needed something from you. Do you really think he’d have anything to say to you as farewell?”
Reese was right. I knew it all made sense now.
I wasn’t going to gain any closure from him, even though he was my father and I craved for a moment alone with him.
I hated him and he deserved everything soon coming to him.
Twenty-Six
Nolan
I met Tristan at a spot a few miles away from Aldo’s hideout. The others were on their way to meet us here.
“How did you find this place?” Tristan asked when he parked his bike and joined me in my car.
“Amelia. I followed her. She led me here,” I replied.
There was silence in the car while I stared into the darkness in front of us while my brother glared at me in surprise.
“Two things. Why were you following her and why was she with Aldo?”
This was the conversation I’d wanted to avoid for as long as possible—confessing to my brothers that I’d fallen in a honeytrap.
“She was working for him, as a spy. The whole thing was a fuckin’ setup,” I growled, banging my palms on the wheel.
“Where is she now? What did you do to her?”
“This is where things get even more fucked up. Amelia is Reese’s half-sister. Amelia is Aldo’s daughter. They share the same mother.”
Tristan ran a hand through his hair and cursed under his breath. This whole story bordered on bizarre.
“She didn’t know anything when Aldo found her and recruited her for the job. She had no idea who we were or who Aldo was. He tricked her into working for him and nearly got herself killed. She’s with Reese now. They’re having a reunion. I’ve sent a guy over to my apartment to keep an eye on them.”
Tristan cursed some more. Then, he asked me the question I’d spent the whole day asking myself.
“So what are you going to do about her? Now that you have all the facts. You going to let her go, or it go?”
“I don’t fuckin’ know.”
“You like her?” Tristan asked, glaring at me for a truthful answer.
“I like her. I thought I more than liked her.”
“Then it’s not going to be easy letting her go. If that’s what you want to do.”
My family would accept Amelia even if I’d wanted to. They’d never forgive her for her betrayal no matter how she found herself in this mess. Was that what my brother tried to tell me?
We sat in silence in the car for a few moments until we saw the headlights of the other cars arriving. Tristan turned to me and slapped my shoulder.
“But we’ve got your back, brother. If this is the girl for you, then this is the girl for us,” he said, stepping out of my car to go greet the others.
I stared at them—all my brothers standing in a huddle in the dark. Other men were about to join us, men who worked for us and men from other families and businesses who all wanted Aldo dead. And they were all here because of me. Because I found the motherfucker.
Colin and Killian turned to look at me in unison. Colin gave me one single nod—like he was thanking me. Killian had a smile on his face—he was excited about finally getting Aldo.
What was I thinking? I’d never leave my family. I could never walk away from them. This was my night for redemption. My chance to prove myself to my brothers. I’d help my family finally end this bloody war.
