The Little Luciano

Chapter Two

Steph's POV

I felt someone shake me awake; opening my eyes I looked up into Angelo's green ones.

"Hey." I sat up and looked around, Angelina was still sleeping.

"How are you?" I scooted over on the couch and he sat down beside me.

"Good. How's the family?" Even though they were the Mob I had always liked the Luciano family.

"Everything's good. How's Angelina?"

"Going well, she's just sleeping now." Everything was so awkward between us, I was waiting for him to bring up the weather or something. We had never planned what would happen if Angelina woke up and now neither of us knew what to do.

The door opened and Sam came in. "Hey Angelo." Angelo just nodded his head in response. "I'm going to wake up Angelina so I can do a few tests then I'll leave you to explain what's happened. She'll be really confused at what's going on, being a two year old in a six years body."

Sam gently woke Angelina; she looked around trying to work out what was going on, I felt my heart break as she started crying again.

"Shhh, baby. Its okay, Mommy's here." I rocked her slowly back and forth.

"Don't worry Angel, you're safe." Angelo said, coming to stand beside the bed.

"Daddy." Angelina sniffled then pulled herself out of my arms.

"I'm here Angel Baby." Angelo bent so he was eye level with her.

"I'm scared Daddy."

"Your safe Angel, you're in the hospital. You'll be fine. This is Sam." Angelina looked at Sam apprehensively. "She's a nurse and she needs to do some tests to make sure everything's fine. Okay Angel. Mommy and I will be right here the whole time."

Angelina nodded her head and Sam started the tests.

It took about half an hour to finish the tests then Angelina fell asleep again.

"How about we go get some lunch. I know a small place just down the road." I said.

"Sure. I need to call Dad and tell him about Angelina as well."

Don Roberto loved Angelina and had always spoiled her. I knew that it had killed him a little bit inside when she'd gone into the coma. Angelina was the only granddaughter, Roberto had three other sons and they had all had boys.

We headed out of the hospital and got into Angelo's red Lamborghini.

"It's just down this street," I said directing him down a small alley. We got out and went inside. It was a small café that I had found when I was looking for a close place for lunch. We sat down and ordered.

"So, how have you been?" Angelo asked.

"Good. I'm a bounty hunter now." The waiter dropped off the drinks and I downed most of my coke just for something to do.

"I heard about that." A small smile played at his lips. "You do a bit of work for Ranger Manoso too."

"You been checking up on me?" For some reason, with Angelo it didn't seem like an invasion of privacy.

"Just making sure you're okay. Dad still loves you like a daughter and is constantly telling me to ask you to come down and visit."

"You can tell him that I miss him as well and will come down to see him soon."

We sat in silence for a bit just eating our lunch then he sighed. "I guess we should talk about Angelina."

I put my fork down. "Probably."

"I want to take her back home but I don't think that would be a good idea. She'll get hurt again with me." I knew it would hurt him to leave Angelina in Trenton and go back to New York without her. "I'll set up a bank account for you so everything you and Angelina need is taken care of."

I nodded. "I've been looking at a house just outside the Burg, not too far from here. I'm going to buy it for Angelina and I to live in, and have RangeMan install maximum security."

Angelo nodded. "I'll stay in Trenton for a while. And after I tell Dad about Angelina, he'll probably come down." He looked at his watch. "I guess we should be heading back to the hospital."

Lester's POV

Bobby and I sat in the SUV waiting for Angelo to leave the airport. He'd hired a red Lamborghini so it wasn't going to be too hard to follow him.

"So you think that this guy is running the kiddie porn ring?" I asked Bobby.

"I don't know, the FBI is pretty certain it's coming out of the Luciano family and I heard he was one mean son of a bitch when he wanted to be."

Angelo came out of the airport and got into the Lamborghini pulling out with us not far behind. An hour later we stopped outside Trenton's Private Care Hospital.

"What's he doing here?" Bobby mused.

"No idea man. Maybe somebody in the "family" is sick."

We waited a little longer then he came back out with a girl in tow. I picked up the camera and clicked away.

"The guy has taste, she pretty." Bobby said.

"Yeah, but who is she? I can't see her face." I clicked a few more photos then the girl in question turned around and I froze. It was Steph.

"Fuck." Bobby said and I couldn't agree more. What the fuck was Steph doing with a man like Angelo? They pulled out of the lot and I snapped out of my trance and followed them down to a small café.

I shut off the SUV and picked up the camera again. Snapping more photos of the two of them. "The boss isn't going to be happy about this."

"Yeah and we're the ones that are going to have to show him the photos."

God I wasn't looking forward to that. Ranger had a tendency to get a little out of control when something bad involved Steph.

"Why is she with him any way? How does she even know him?" Bobby asked.

"Got me beat."

We watched as they had lunch them went back to the hospital. Steph left and we followed Angelo to a hotel near the edge of Trenton. Woody and Ram took over for us and Bobby and I headed back to Rangeman.

"Doesn't look like Ranger's here." Bobby said when we pulled into the garage. "I say we print the photos off then just leave them on his desk."

We did that then I headed to the fourth floor so I could get some sleep. All I needed to do now was avoid Ranger like the plague until this case was over and all would be good.