At noon, the two arrived in Rutherford, Jersey East, and parked their car in the parking lot in front of the medical center as planned. This parking lot is shaded by greenery, because it is old and not covered by surveillance cameras, so you don't have to worry about being photographed. They got out of the car, and Russell opened the trunk and took a short crowbar and hid it in his pocket.

Arthur had a gun in his arms, and today he wore an ordinary gray jacket, the most inconspicuous of the lowest. Russell was still wearing a black coat, and the two of them walked to the street where Abramo's lover lived, found a café, sat down at the table in the open air, ordered two cups of coffee, and began to wait patiently.

Arthur didn't like coffee very much, and after traveling to this plane, he found that his eating habits had not changed, and he still wanted to drink tea, rice, and eat pot meat and hot pot. It's a pity that there is no here, and he has eaten pizza, noodles, sausages and butter bread for two days in a row, which makes him feel very greasy, and he really wants to get a cup of Emei bamboo leaf green to wash his stomach.

"Hey Russell, do you know where to drink tea?" Arthur asked, thinking of the fragrance of green tea, he felt thirsty in his throat, and he felt a little sick when he looked at the steaming coffee in front of him, as if it was a bowl of Chinese medicine, and he had no desire to drink it at all.

Russell looked at his watch and said, "It's in Chinatown next door." ”

It was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, and according to the intelligence, Abramo usually came here to have a tryst with his lover at one to half past one. He has to deal with work in the morning, go home for dinner at noon, and spend the afternoon with his wife at social events or squatting at the bar he runs. On his days off, he sent his daughter to piano lessons.

It's Sunday, and after lunch with my family in the morning, I send my daughter to the piano teacher, and then he will take time to come here.

He doesn't take his subordinates with him when he sends his daughter to class, and he doesn't want his subordinates to know about his lover, so he always comes over secretly by himself. It was a complete coincidence that one of Gigandy's men had gone to Jersey on an errand and happened to meet Abramo while refueling at a gas station, so he secretly followed him in his car and discovered his secret.

After that, Jigandi sent people to follow him for a while, found out the pattern of Abramo's tryst with his lover, and found an opportunity to assassinate Abramo. But Gigandi did not want to take on this task, he was always shrewd, saying that he was only responsible for the cost of the assassination and escape. He had already given Tony a sum of money, and the money was not going to reach Arthur according to the plan.

Arthur heard Russell mention Chinatown, maybe he could go there and hang out, have a cup of tea, get some dim sum, if only there was a hot pot, skewers or something. Thinking of this, Arthur drooled a little. He didn't seem nervous about the assassination, and he felt for the gun in his pocket, and he also felt for the playing card in his pocket.

That 6 of clubs.

……

After about 20 minutes, a construction truck came up on the street, which was maintaining a power pole. And Abramo still didn't appear, Arthur couldn't help but be a little impatient, and he drank all the coffee in front of him. Seeing this, Russell reminded Arthur not to rush, any hunter needs to be patient enough to catch the desired prey.

After another 5 minutes of waiting, Abramo still didn't show up, but a tall woman came out of the red-walled apartment. She had long, chestnut curly hair, pulled a pair of flip-flops, wore a floral skirt, and walked towards the coffee shop with her hands on her shoulders and her neck hunched.

It rained the day before yesterday, and the sun and air are good today, but the weather is still a little cold, and the occasional gust of wind can give people goosebumps. She obviously didn't expect it to be so cold outside, but she didn't want to go back to add clothes, so she had to trot all the way to the coffee shop, open the door and rush in under Arthur's gaze.

Arthur and Russell glanced at each other, and this woman was Abramo's lover, the Ukrainian girl named Vera. I don't know if I'm in a hurry, she hurried down by herself, she should have gone to the café to buy something to eat.

Soon, Vera came out of the café with a cup of coffee and a paper bag filled with sandwiches, and she hadn't eaten lunch yet. Abramo was supposed to arrive, and he would have brought some food for noon, but he was late today.

Vera was smuggled from Ukraine and fell for the head of a smuggler, thinking that she had come to work as a hotel hostess, but in fact she was being sold as a prostitute.

After being sent to Jersey, Abramo was involved in the local business, and happened to take a fancy to Vera and took her up and raised her.

Vera got a job dancing at a nearby bar, resting during the day and working at night, and she doesn't usually go out much for fear of being checked by the police. She was a smuggler, without a visa, and would be deported if caught.

Usually, her expenses are borne by Abramo, and the money she earns at the bar can be saved, so she doesn't want to leave for the time being, and wants to make more money. The Abramo is very nice and can give her enough security, although she can only see her once a week, it is enough for her.

Today she was really hungry, there was no food in the fridge, and Abramo didn't arrive on time, so she hurried down to buy some food.

Coming out of the café, a cold wind blew, Vera tightened up again, holding the coffee and paper bags, and trotted to the apartment, not noticing that two people were following behind.

Arthur and Russell followed behind Vera, and they changed their plans on the fly, preparing to go directly to Vera's house to wait for Abramo, which was less risky than breaking the door in. The idea came up with Arthur, who felt like he was getting a bit of a killer.

The two followed behind Vera one after the other, and arrived in front of the door of the apartment, and after Vera climbed up to the first floor, the two followed quickly, one step at a time, three steps, trying to be as soft as possible and careful not to be discovered by Vera.

When Vera arrived at the door, and just took out the key to open the door, Russell rushed forward, covering Vera's mouth with one hand, and clamping Vera's arms and body with the other, and pushed her into the house without waiting for Vera to struggle and scream.

Arthur looked left and right for a moment, made sure that there were no other people up and down the hallway, picked up the paper bag that Vera had dropped on the floor, followed Vera's house, and closed the door with a hook of his foot.

……

Abramo was so anxious that he bought two fried chicken sets at a McDonald's drive-in restaurant on the side of the road, paid for it and said to the salesman, "Don't look for it." He closed the window and hurriedly stepped on the gas pedal and hit the road. In the passenger seat sat a little girl, Paula Abramo, Abramo's daughter.

Today she was supposed to go to the piano teacher's house for lessons, but when she arrived at Abramo, she learned that the piano teacher had a cold today and couldn't go to class.

Abramo's plans are disrupted, he can't leave his daughter alone, but he really wants to see Vera. His wife went to Philadelphia in the afternoon and was not at home, and finally he decided to send his daughter to her grandmother's place, let her stay for the afternoon, go to have a tryst with Vera himself, and come back to pick her up in the evening.

Paula is 11 years old and about to enter middle school, she looks more like her mother, small and round, only those sharp eyes are exactly like her father's. She took the paper bag handed by her father and said, "Dad, why did you buy two copies?" ”

Abramo said: "One for you, if you get to grandma's house, you can eat some if you are hungry, you have always disliked eating grandma's cooking." Give me a copy... My friend, I have something to do in the afternoon, he is waiting for me, he has not eaten yet. ”

"She or him?" Paula looked at her dad with her fierce eyes, and the question made Brammamo very uncomfortable.

He smiled, thinking to himself that children are so difficult to deceive now?

"Oh~ it's Uncle Paul, business. Do you remember him? The one with a big nose, Uncle Paul. ”

"Remember, did he never get married? Why didn't he get married? ”

Abramo didn't know what to say for a while, he loved his daughter very much, and his wife who was very similar to her, but he felt more and more tired from being with them.

Their focus is always on strange places, asking him nerve-wracking questions. The things in the gang were enough for him to have a headache, and when he returned home, he wanted to be quiet, and he had a gentle wife and well-behaved daughter by his side to let him rest.

But when he got home, he was not idle, decorating, picking clothes, enrolling his children in school, buying a piano, his parents-in-law's illness, cleaning the fallen leaves in the swimming pool, and his daughter's various strange problems.

Fortunately, the eldest son Dali went to college, otherwise the family would have to jump in the chickens and dogs.

So he needs Vera, not only because of her young beauty, but also because of her well-behaved and sensible, she is completely under the control of Abramo.

In the gang, he is the boss who has to meet all the needs of the horns and the little brother, at home he is a middle-aged father who has to support his family and take care of his wife and make his daughter happy, only here is Vera, he is a complete king, a person who is completely dependent and needed. How strong, cold, and cruel he is on the outside, how weak he is on the inside, and how he needs warmth and relaxation.

Soon, Abramo drove the car to the door of his mother's house, his father died early, and his mother, a strong woman, pulled him up. But as an adult, Abramo did not have a good relationship with her, she was too stubborn, she did not get along with his wife, and she was an eccentric old lady who lived alone. I hope that my granddaughter coming over to accompany her will make her feel better.

Pulling his daughter out of the car, knocking on the door a few times, the mother's voice came, "Who is it?" ”

"Mom, it's me, Luca." Abramo's full name is Luca Angelo Abramo.

The door clicked open, and an old lady with a wrinkled face and drooping eyes looked at Abramo with wolf-like eyes—nothing like a mother looking at her son.

Abramo's eyes are clearly inherited from his mother.

When she saw her granddaughter following her son, her eyes showed tenderness, and she hurriedly opened the screen door and welcomed her little baby with open arms.

The old lady pulled her granddaughter into the house and said to her son with a cold face: "Send Paula to me, and you are going to do your dirty deeds again?" ”

Abramo said helplessly: "Work, I'm going to work, Paula's piano teacher is sick today, I ......"

"Okay, no need to explain, just like your dead ghost father, let's go, let's go!" The old lady waved her hand at her son, motioned for him to go quickly, and then slammed the door shut, without even letting him in.

Abramo sighed and pinched his nose, the woman in the family really made him tired and headache.

Looking at the time, it was almost an hour later than the scheduled tryst, and Abramo hurried into the car, now all he could think about was Vera. He pressed the gas pedal hard and sped towards Vera's residence, where he slowed down again when he was near the red-walled apartment.

Although anxious, Abramo was still very careful, he slowly pulled the car to the side of the road, bent his head and looked left and right to see if there was any suspicious person. There were a few pedestrians on the road, a couple sitting on the open-air tables and chairs in the café, an engineering maintenance truck was maintaining a power pole, and everything was normal.

Abramo took out a gun from the storage compartment and stuffed it into his pocket, opened the door and walked all the way into the apartment, only then did he relax a little, there was nothing abnormal in the corridor of the apartment, he took three steps and made two steps, climbed to the door of Vera's house, took out the key to open the door, and pushed the door in a hurry, shouting "Vera ......"

As a result, the cold barrel pressed against his temple.

Two sentences popped into Abramo's head:

One, Shit.

Two, I should have made a phone call.