The Mafia's Babies by Kaycee Romano (rocket ebook reader txt) 📖

He did not mean good. 

Something was going to happen today. Something that wasn't supposed to. 

Jacqueline could only pray that he did not win in whatever he wanted and her sister and family remained safe. 

She jumped when she heard a knock on the door. 

Victor smiled devilishly when he heard it. 

He looked at Jacqueline and then at the kids who were curiously staring at the door. 

"Go to Jackie, let me see who it is." He gave Kiara a little push and she walked over to Jacqueline and her brother. 

The door knob turned and it was unlocked. 

Jacqueline blinked. Had she missed a chance to get out of here? 

Victor took out his gun and unlocked it as the door was pushed open, River emerging from behind it. 

"Mommy!" Kiara and Lucas exclaimed happily. 

"River..." Jacqueline whispered in shock and relief as the two children ran to her. 

River was in a daze, seeing nothing but her children who had gone missing for almost a month. 

"My babies!" Tears trickled down her cheeks as she bent down and picked them up like she always did, hugging them. 

"We missed you!" They said in unison. 

"I missed you both too, my loves. So so very much." 

The sound of the door closing had her turning on her heels. 

Ian smiled at her as he locked the door and pocketed the key. 

"Gotcha!" He chuckled. 

"I knew it..." River muttered. 

"What's the use now?" Ian asked. "You are here. We are here. No one can save you all." 

"Mommy..." Lucas whispered, realizing that they were in danger again. 

"You know George and Davis are gonna come here any minute now right?" River took a step back. 

"Doesn't matter." Victor spoke. "They are with me." 

"What?" Jacqueline exclaimed. 

Now that was another shock. 

River stepped back so that she was standing next to Jacqueline now, her children in her arms and them facing the two men. 

Ian raised his gun and pointed at Ian. 

"I would love to see Mateo's face when he sees all of your dead bodies." 

The children didn't cry or make any noise, but they were terrified and so they clutched onto their mother's shirt. 

"Mommy, I am scared." Kiara whispered. 

"Leave my children out of this." River warned. 

"And what makes you think that I would listen to you?" 

"The fact that you will die if you don't." 

Ian turned around to face Victor, and he had his gun trained at him. 

River and Jacqueline looked at each other confused and then back at the two men. 

Ian tilted his head, his crazy mind not the least scared by this sudden change of events. He had not expected Victor to turn against him. 

"What happened, Vicky?" Ian spoke. "You forgot so easily what the Adessos did to your brother?" 

River slowly lowered the kids to the ground before taking her own gun out of her waist band. Jacqueline pulled the kids back so that now they were shielded from the men by the two of their bodies, and River raised her gun training it on Ian. 

"Matthew brought that upon himself." Victor said emotionlessly. "He had it coming for him." 

"I am going to kill you!" Ian bellowed and raised his gun but before he could pull the trigger, someone shot him, and he fell to the ground. The children screamed and Jacqueline bent down and hugged them. 

River's eyes widened when she saw the figure that emerged out of the supply closet right next to the front door. 

"Sia?"