Mob Boss Eleven- The Wrong One (The Mob Boss Series Book 11) Read Free

make up
her own mind.   Then she looked back at
him.   “I realize it,” she said.
    “You
realize there could be a drive-by shooting at any moment and your ass could be
right in the middle of it?”
    Trina
didn’t blink.   “I realize it,” she said.
    Reno
stared at her.   She was so tough now, and
he was proud of his part in making her tougher.   But she was sometimes fearless too, and too willing to take chances.   He didn’t like that part about her one
bit.   He had to literally beat her ass a
time or two because of it.  
    He
looked past her, at the humungous building before them, and at the two people
standing there, all smiles, as if they were waiting for their lottery
winnings.   He began putting on his suit
coat.   “And you wanted me to meet you
here why?” he asked.  
    “I
have an idea,” she said.
    Reno
wanted to roll his eyes. “Not again, Tree.”
    “Just
come and hear us out,” Trina said.
    “If it’s
about opening another store, I don’t have to hear you out.   The answer is no.”
    “It’s
not about opening another store, Reno,” Trina said with a smile.   “Just hear us out.”
    Reno
smiled. “Do I have a choice?”
    Trina
intertwined her arm in his.   “None,” she
said, and escorted him toward her two potential partners.  
    Reno
was reasonably certain that this meeting was going to be all about yet another how to overextend myself bright idea by
Trina, and he was certain he was not going to like it.   He put back on his shades.  
    Gennifer
and Maurice braced themselves as the power couple headed their way.   It was now or never for their little venture,
and they both knew it.   They put on their
best smiles.   They outwardly displayed
their best looks of sincerity.   They
inwardly prepared the best sales pitch of their lives.   Because they knew this had to work.   They knew it had to be the kind of sales
pitch that would alleviate any of Reno Gabrini’s concerns, and tamp down any
good reason he had to reject their proposal.
    But
what they didn’t realize, as Reno approached them, was that he was already
rejecting it.   When it came to his wife
overextending herself, they could try to sell him the moon, the stars, the lake
and the sea.   But he wasn’t buying any of
it.
    “I
want you to meet Maurice Pender and Gennifer Goff,” Trina said to Reno when
they arrived at the building’s entrance.
    “How
are you?” Reno asked the twosome.
    “We’re
honored to meet you, Mr. Gabrini,” Maurice was the first to respond.   “We’ve heard so many wonderful things about
you.   So many magnificent things.”
    Wrong approach , Trina thought, and she was
right.   Reno didn’t waste time.   “You heard things,” he said to Maurice, “but
none of them were wonderful or magnificent.   None.”   Reno looked Maurice in the
eyes.   “Let’s cut the bullshit.   What’s this about?”
    Maurice
and Gennifer exchanged a quick glance.   What in the world , they wondered.  
    But
Trina didn’t wonder at all.   She had
already told them what in the world they were up against.   They just didn’t believe her.   “Gennifer and Maurice once ran Halperin
House,” she said to her husband.   “I’m
sure you’ve heard of it.”
    “Yeah,
I’ve heard of it.   It was a . . . what’s
it?   A shelter, right?” Reno asked.
    “For
battered women, yes,” Trina responded.   “It used to be housed in this building.   Before it closed, Maurice was the executive director and Gennifer was
the business manager.   But after it
closed, it left a major void in this city that they’ve been trying to fill ever
since.”
    “A
void they want you to fill?” Reno asked.
    “They
want me to help fill, yes,” Trina responded honestly.   “But it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a
long time.   You know what it’s like here,
Reno.   You own the PaLargio.   You see it every day.   This is Vegas, and so many women are
victimized here because of the