Chapter 1

(Ringtone of the William Tell Overture)

Few people knew that cell number, in fact only one was still alive that did, it was my stepdaughter calling.

I answered, "Sam's Home for wayward girls, are you picking up or dropping off?"

"Dad, Help me, Please Help me!"

"Aimee Honey, what's wrong, where are you, what do you need?"

"Dad, I'm at home! Mom's. I don't know she is lying on the floor. Her new boyfriend is drunk or high on something and trying to get into my bedroom. Dad, I have a chair by the door and am sitting on it, but he keeps saying he wants to rape me, Dad. Please Help!"

"Hon, Stay there, call '911'. I am sending people to help you and I will be there within 90 minutes. Gino and Vince will go to you ASAP and I'll call George to get there too. Just stay there."

"Dad, I don't want to hang up, keep talking to me please."

Bruno heard us on the speaker and was already calling for the helicopter.

"Ok Honey! I'm flying down there right now and don't you go out of that room until Gino and Vince ask you to. They will get you soon, you know him or Vince. They will bring you to meet my helicopter. They will get to you before I will so go with them, I'll be there ASAP. Understand?"

"Yes Daddy! Please hurry, I'm scared!"

Amelia was my step-daughter, nick-named Aimee, Maggie's(Mary) 15 year old daughter. We were actually a married couple less than 1 year and the divorce was final a little after that. She could not keep her legs together and I found out why. She was hooked on drugs. What she could not buy, she exchanged her considerable charms for, at least, I guess, while we were supposedly married.

I called Gino and Vince first, told them it was a life at stake and to get Aimee then bring her to me, I was flying down. I also told them I was calling George, he was to take 'care of things' for them there but to just make certain Aimee was safe. I made a call to George while on the ride.

"George, It's Mary again. Her new 'boy toy' is trying to rape Amelia. I've had enough of this shit. Gino and Vince are on their way to get Amelia and I'm on my way there now. Take care of things, if you need too permanently. If you will not do something like that for me, at least just don't interfere; I'll get somebody else to take care of things but if you screw with me I'll..."

I did not finish that thought. George was a LEO and it was not often I called on him nor made a threat. I assume he got the message though. I made another call, just in case. This one was going to cost me big time though, but it was not going to be only money, I just knew it. I would gladly pay ten times any amount of money if it would put a stop to these sorts of things, the other 'fee' she would probably want I did not want to even consider. But George did not respond the way I wanted him to and there were only a few I might trust for something that could come back to me.

I made the call anyway. "Katia! I have a problem that I do not want to have anymore. Will you arrange to 'take care of it' for me?"

"Sam, you finally getting smart and want the 'Bitch' torched? About time you arsehole!"

"Gino and Vince are on their way now to rescue Aimee. Her mother's 'friend' has decided to expand his attention to her now. The LEO's are on their way too. I called George but I am under the impression that drinking coffee, eating doughnuts and taking my money is all he is good for. Still, it gives me an alibi when something might happen to them, any of them, Capiche?

"Jawohl Mein Herr, das werde ich!

"Katia let me know how much this will cost me, no I don't really care, just tell me where and when the funds should be sent. If you need cash this afternoon, I'll have it sent or wire it to any bank you say. If you need anything sooner, Bruno will have it with him today, we are on our way there now."

"Sam, this is also going to 'cost you' personally, you know. I'm not a little girl anymore and by now I hope you know you can trust me, Honey. I've waited a long time for you."

"Kat, Kat, I told you before, I'm too old for you! God, you have your whole life ahead of you. Your young, intelligent and beautiful; ever man's wet dream. Yes, I trust you, why do you think I call you at a time like this!"

"And why do you think I am still waiting for you. I love you, stupido. You took a little girl no one else cared about, raised her up properly, trained her to be a lady, were willing to buy her anything and everything she could possibly want; when all she wanted was to be with you. Well Buddy Boy with this you owe me 'big time' and I aim to collect."

"Kat, Kat, what can I do?"

"Let me see, maybe I can think of a few things you can do to me. Maybe we can go to a nice, warm and private place for our honeymoon, Honey?"

Dead silence.

"Earth to Sam, earth to Sam! What's the matter, Kat got your tongue or a might lower than there?"

"Just do it Please. I'll give you anything you want, money that is Kat. Kat please you know I love you. You are the part of me I never had before. I love and care for my stepdaughter, but you hold a special place in my heart. When I am dead, Aimee gets $25 million, you get everything else, everything Kat."

"And I'll trade that for being Mrs. Samuel Constanta now."

Dead silence again.

"It will be taken care of Dear, people will join the LEO's and mistakenly shoot the 'perp' and Maggie by accident. George will know nothing about it. These added police will not show up at the station to file any report though. Hell, they may even get the job done before Vincent and Gino get there, so make certain they concentrate on just saving Amelia. Will that be satisfactory Mein Herr?"