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because of
the big payday at the end of the rainbow.   If all went according to plan, she was going to become the rightful
owner of the PaLargio.   She was going to
return that crown jewel to the Tufarna family.   Andre, as her man, was going to reap those benefits too.   But the lengths they had to go through to get
to this point was wearing on them both.   Especially Zell.   “Are you certain
she’s going to go through with it?” she asked him.
    “Yes, I’m certain.   That’s the only thing I’m certain about.   She hates Gabrini as much as you do.   She’s glad to help.”
    “What if she finds out about us?”
    Andre glanced at her, and then continued to stare at the
school.   “She won’t,” he said.
    “But what if she does, Dre?   What if she realizes it was all a scam?”
    “I told you to let me worry about her.   You just focus on Gabrini.”   Then he sighed.   “I wish I felt good about this.   But I don’t see how this is going to work,
Zell.   All of this cloak and dagger
shit.”
    “Father says it’ll work,” Zell reminded him.
    “I know what your old man said.   He says a lot of things, and then trots us
off to do his dirty work.   But what are you saying?” Andre looked at her.   “Is this our war or his?   How do you feel about all of this?”
    “I feel we have to take care of this.   Reno Gabrini stole my birthright and I have
to take it back.”
    “But that was so long ago.   And why can’t we just confront him head on?   Why all of this plotting and scheming?”
    “Because my father is right.   When you’re dealing with a lowlife like Reno Gabrini, you have to come
at him sideways, around the way, and always where it hurts.   Not where it’s legal or right.   He doesn’t give a snatch about legal and
right or he would not have done what he did to us.”   Then she looked at the private, exclusive
school again.   “It’ll work,” she
said.   “You just let me and my father
worry about the details.”
    But Andre was still antsy.   “It was better when it was the two of us.   We could plan logically.   Not with all of this hit him where it hurts
shit.   We had a plan.”
    “And before he got involved that was all we had,” Zell
pointed out.   “A plan.   We planned.   We had no proof.   We had no way of
asserting our rights in a court of law.   All we had was what we were told.   Now we’re no longer planning, but executing.   He’s able to bring our plans to fruition,
Dre.   And this is only the beginning.”
    Andre sat erect.   “There’s a speedster,” he said as a car zoomed past the diner and turned
into the school’s parking lot.
    Zell’s eyes sparkled.   “It’s him,” she said anxiously as she sat her coffee in one of the cup
holders and grabbed the binoculars.   She
zoomed in as Reno’s Porsche parked alongside his wife’s Mercedes.   He jumped out, in his dress pants and dress
shirt that was half tucked in and half tucked out, as if he made only an
absentminded attempt to dress properly.   He also wore sunglasses as he ran up the steep steps toward the school’s
entrance.
    Zell removed the binoculars and nodded her head with
satisfaction.   “And now it all begins,”
she said with what her brother could only describe as a smile.   But a smile most reptilian.

 
    Reno pulled open the double doors of Dommi’s school and ran
across the hall to the main office.   His
heart was hammering when he saw Trina standing at the reception desk with her
arms folded.   She was dressed primly, in
yellow heels and a pair of light-gray dress slacks, a yellow sleeveless shirt,
and a gray sweater flapped down her back with its arms tied around her
neck.   She was dressed beautifully.   But he could see the fear in her eyes.
    She hurried toward him as soon as he hurried in.   “Reno,” she said as if his name alone gave
her relief.
    He pulled her into his arms.   “Where is he?” he asked.
    “In Principal