Stephano had various people he trusted in charge of different operations. For the drug cartels, he had his own daughter oversea the gears of the underground arena. Although he himself would've never anticipated he would give his daughter such a higher order task, she had mental toughness hard as nails and persona directly inheirited from her father. She was more than capable of the job.

Of course, he wasn't thrilled about the recent events with Jack O'Conner, and so he was on his way to one of Rina's houses near the docking yards themselves. He had a suspicion she maybe could tell him a little more about this lost shipment, and who exactly was the man and family behind his grief.

He soon arrived and stepped out of his limo towards her house. He didn't bother knocking and simply walked in to the living room. "Rina, dad needs to have a word." He called out in no apparent direction.

Rina, who had been up most of the night trying to figure out what the hell went wrong, was not surprised to hear her father's voice ring out in her home. Groaning she rolled out of bed. "I'll be right down dad." She quickly made herself presentable by pulling on a clean pair of jeans and a simple black top before she headed down stairs.
"Morning dad. Can I get you something to drink?" She made her way into the kicten and started the coffee pot.

"An expresso would be great." He said as he rubbed his forehead and found a chair adjacent from the kitchen. His expression was one of anxiety and depression. It wasn't just the lost shipment, it was where that shipment was, and if the feds could retrieve it themselves. If the police did get their hands on it, their whole operation as a mob was in jeopardy.
"I'll get straight to the point my dear, you know more about this Jack O'Conner than I do, we need to get familiar with his family and hope one of them will open up where those drugs are. I have one hired gun on the case, and I should be bringing in another soon enough. This needs to be resolved within the next day if possible." He spoke with a nervous twinge in his voice.

Rina sighed. "Alright daddy." She got her cup off coffee and walked to her father handing him his expresso. She stepped over her two large Cane Corso dogs, her gray Riley and her fawn Scarlet, she made herself comfertable on the couch.
"Jack is pretty new. I know his brother Brian was a cop and so was their father. He was looking for money and is a good driver." Her hand tightened around her cup. No one had ever lost a shipment on her before so the mir thought of iit sent her over the edge with angar. "I'l personaly track him down dad."

Stephano almost had a mini heart attack when she said Jack's brother was a cop. "A cop? How the hell do we know he still isn't a cop, or that Jack isn't working with his cop brother?" He said with panic in his voice. He wondered where Rina got the idea that it was smart to hire someone with any police history in the family. "Tracking him isn't my concern, he can't run from us. My concern is what gets out while he's still alive."
Once Stephano got his bearings back from his little rant, he mentioned thoughtfully. "Alright, I happen to know someone who's befriended the O'Conner. In fact I believe he's had quite a lot of interaction with Brian. I'll get him over here." He brought out his phone and immediately found Cole Peyton's contact.

Cole was doing what he almost always did when he wasn't either driving or hanging out with Taya, and that was sitting at home with a bag of Doritos and watching some of his favorite shows. Unfortunately, that was interrupted by a phone call from everyone's favorite boss. With a groan he double checked the caller ID and then put on his best possible voice. "Hello, Mr. Dieseli."

The conversation only went on for a minute until it was understood that he was to meet Stephano at this new address he spelled out for him. Though there were plenty of other things Cole would rather be doing, he grabbed the keys to his Corvette, made sure he was looking reasonably well, and hit the road.
Soon he rolled into a very nice driveway in front of what was basically a mansion. "Typical Dieseli style." Cole muttered to himself as he stepped out of the car and made his way towards the door. He gave the door a couple loud knocks, hoping it was the right address, his mind meanwhile racing through the possibilities of why Stephano would call him over to "chat."

Rina sighed. "His brother was the one in the huge scandal in Miami, that fled the country." She sat up alittle straighter. " I'll hunt him down. This is my problem I'll fix it."
When her father picked up his phone, her only thought was who the hell is gonna know her fuck up now. Then not long after knocks rang threw her home. She stood and made her way to the door expecting one of her dad's normal guys, an older man in a buisness suit. Her surprise was apparent when she opened the door and saw the young blonde on the other side. He had to have been close to her age. "Can I help you?"

Cole caught himself leaning on the wall of the house and pried himself off of it, thinking that probably wasn't great etiquette at such a house. Soon enough the door was opened, and instead of the stereotypical suited Italian guy greeting him, it was a young woman. Needless to say it caught him off guard. "Um, is Mr. Dieseli here?" He asked thinking he may have the wrong house. From the little he could see though it sure looked Italian decorated.

Rina looked the boy up and down. "Yeah follow me." She lead him into the house and to her father. "Dad your guest is here." She stepped aside and let her father see the young man behind her. If this man really is part of her dad's mafia she would be shocked. For as far as she knew there wasn't a guy even close to her age. She took her place on the couch and watched.

"Bring him in." Stephano called out, hearing the voice of his driver. "Mr. Peyton, appreciate your company." He motioned at a chair across him. "Please have a seat." He could sense Cole's apprehension about this, and wondered if he was truly the best man he has that would know something about the O'Conners, but he was worth a talk.
"We need to talk about your friends, the O'Conner's." The mobster leaned in his direction. "I have reason to believe you know them quite well."

Cole breathed a sigh of relief as the girl recognized the name, otherwise he was in for a round of humiliation. "Good morning, Mr. Dieseli." He said as formally as possible and obeyed his gesture towards a chair. Whether it was anticipation or nervousness, he wasn't sure, but he was definitely feeling it. Something important must be on deck for a guy as relatively unimportant as him to be called in. He took a look at the girl across from him, so she was Stephano's daughter. He wondered if she had the same cutthroat attitude her dad had, but even more so what she was doing here in on their "meeting."
When the O'Conners were mentioned, he could feel the hair on his neck raise. This was one thing he very much feared, Brian getting tangled up in this deal. He prayed it wasn't anything like he thought it was going to be. "Yeah I know them." He answered dryly. "What's the concern with them?"

"Jack O'Conner. He is our concern." Stephano got to the point, watching for any giveaways in Cole's expression. He knew that the guy must've known a good deal about them, seeing as how much interaction he had with Brian. "I'll allow my daughter to explain the situation to you." He said as his eyes moved from Cole to Rina.

Rina leaned her head back against the couch and rubbed her face with her hands. "Well I'm in charge of running all of dad's drug buisness. The fucker Jack was one of my new runners. He was on a run that even the dumbest human can do. Hell I've done that route a couple times. And the ass some how lost a few thousand dollars of.... well you don't need to know. Now your'e going to kind enough to tell me where the little fucker could be." She sat forward and stared at the bloinde. "I'm looking to put a bullet in his head, so the sonner I find him the better." To say she and her dad were similar would be an undrrstatement. They both had a no nonsense approach to work. And the way blondey was looking at her and her father she could tell he saw it too.

Fortunately for Cole, he barely knew Jack, other than the fact he drove a black Evo, lived in the biggest shitshack he had ever seen, and was Brian's little brother. Mob duties were not something he associated with Jack, and he would've made a bet Brian didn't either.
Though realistically, either way Cole was kind of screwed, even if he did have an idea, there's no way he could rat out someone he'd consider a friend that easily, especially with the threats Stephano's daughter was making. Luckily though he didn't have that option, so he answered truthfully and hoped they bought it.
"Honestly, I barely knew Jack. All I could tell you from what I've seen of him is that he's a bit of a bum, and probably shouldn't be trusted with delivering newspapers properly." He gave a slight shrug. "He didn't come off to me as one who has any clue what the consequences of his actions were, obviously with the way he lived. Keep that in mind when you're dealing with him, you may be able to squeeze the truth out of him instead of just ending him." He said in a loose attempt to cover for the O'Conners.
Cole couldn't help but be intrigued by Stephano's daughter, she definitely took after her father, which he wasn't sure was a good thing. But she couldn't have been much older than he was, and here she ran the drug operations with her father, of one of the biggest mafias in the United States. She obviously had quite a few qualities to qualify her for that job, but regardless, that was pretty friggin' unbelievable.

Rina listened to Cole closely and she wasn't happy. She stood up from her spot on the couch and made her way to Cole. " Well blondey," Her hand gripped his chin forcing him to look her in the eyes. " I really don't think your'e being honest with me." Her nails dug into his skin slightly. "Jack was the one who dug himself a hole, I really don't think iyou want to join him do you?" A smirk spread across her lips. " If you really don't know where Jack is could you tell me where his brother is?" Her nails bit into his skin even more.

He was hoping for the best, but knew that her response was the more likely one. Trouble is, he was being honest...with Jack anyway. If there was one thing he hated, it was people grabbing his face, blondie didn't help either, so his attitude declined a little bit. "Look, I would've never suspected Jack was running a deal for you guys, so how the hell would I know what his getaway plans are?" He curved his brow and shook his head the best he could in her vice grip.
Now he had a bit of a problem. Brian was one he did know quite a bit about, and he knew exactly what would be coming to Brian if he was in Cole's shoes right now, god forbid they found out he was an ex-officer. "I wouldn't know where he is now. I don't really keep tabs on everyone I know." He said in a bit of an annoyed tone.
In the back of his head he believed he was too valuable to Stephano for him to really be in any kind of danger, that may have contributed to his attitude, that or he was just reckless.

Stephano was planning on adding a few things himself but his daughter turned out to be doing a fine job of illustrating the matter to Cole, not to mention a little persuasion as well. He hatched an idea that Cole may be a way inside the O'Conner's head.
"Mr. Peyton, if nothing else could you at least dig around your friend's head to see if he knows where our shipment is and what his plans may be? I trust you could rat it out of him easily enough." He eyed Cole with a raised brow.

Rina was pissed at his nonchalant answer, her nails drawing blood from his face. "Now quit the bullshit. " She didn't let the blood on her fingures bother her. "If you know whats good for you, you will tell me where Jack's brother is. Oh and if he is still a cop." The grip on his face losened."If you give me this information, I will make this worth your while. Whatever you want, wither it be money, cars, homes, anything withen reason." Her honey colored eyes meeet Cole's blue ones.

Cole almost felt like he was caught in a good-cop-bad-cop situation, except unfortunately these weren't cops. Both of them were determined to get something out of him, but no, he wouldn't put Brian's life in jeopardy again, not this time. He simply stayed silent at Stephano's "suggestion."
The silent trick wasn't working with his daughter however, and her vice grip was really starting to hurt, scratch that, now it was starting to feel like a pissed off cat clawing your face. He was seriously tempted to get a little physical with her back, but with dad there, he knew that wouldn't be a good idea. "So now you're all of a sudden interested in his brother? Make up your mind." He said through clenched teeth, shutting the pain off the best he could. "I ain't a sellout." His eyes fired right back at hers. He was starting to feel good about this, she had resorted to offering him things, that meant she was desperate, too desperate.