Chapter Two

Dante's POV:

"Capo, abbiano un problema."

(Capo, abbiano un problema \= Boss, they have a problem \= Italian)

****! They have another fucking problem!

"Che cosa?!"

(Che cosa \= What?! \= Italian) I forcefully growled,

"Alcuni dei nostri uonimi sono stati trovati morti." Tony announced,

(Alcuni dei nostri uonimi sono stati trovati morti \= Some of our men were found dead \= Italian)

"What the ****!"

My body shuddered with anger as I glared at Tony who stood at the doorway with his arms crossed against his chest. I just felt like the burning desire to just kill someone right now because this was not how I planned for it all to go. If anything else happens, today will be a huge failure because it will be the Mafia's down fall which is what I feared most.

"Where? How?" I growled in frustration as I ran my fingers through my hair while I thought of an alternative; I couldn't have another set of crew turning up dead in my front door.

Tony stepped into the room and closed the door behind him before turning back around and approaching me. I feel my anger just growing as I sense this calm demeanor from him and just glare at him while I wondered why the **** was he so calm about all this? Once he reached me, he gave me a small smile when he placed his hands on my shoulders and stared right through my eyes to calm me down.

"You need to calm down." He said, "Putting up with this tough act will not help you at all, it will only make it worse Dante."

"I really don't understand why a problem like this has highlighted your quietude when really, you should be at rage." I growled, "They killed our men, our fucking men!"

"I understand your anger but that's not the way to think before you retaliate. Dante calm down before you take drastic measures that could end up killing you or another of your own."

I watched Tony as I soon began to feel my body just settled with composure; it was the least I could do. Tony is one of my step-brothers that my parents had adopted and ever since he has joined the family, he also joined the Mafia because our family name carried it all. In my eyes, he was no 'step-brother', he is my brother.

"where has this all occurred?" I begin to question, "Tony just gave me the damn location."

"The attack Happened at one of your brothels." He confessed.

"Ok dettagli! Tony! Which one?" I clapped my hands as I urged him to say it,

(dettagli \= Details \= Italian)

"The private one, the one you often visit." He answered as he rolled his eyes and walked away from me from my failure of understanding him. I sensed his frustration right away and hated the feeling of just being guilt tripped but I have to fight back whether he or no one for a matter of fact, disliked it or not.

I knew from the beginning that this day would come. I suspected that some motherfucker would have the balls to challenge me and I was prepared for all the shit that was coming.

Tony's quiet growl knocked me out of my thoughts and I immediately glanced at him. He rubbed his chin as the other hand rested on his hip while it seemed like he was thinking of something to help the situation.

"Before you do anything, I want you to think about the consequences of your actions. If you go down there now, you'll end up dead." he reasoned,

"Do you take me as a fucking fool Tony? What exactly are you trying to point out, that I'm weak?" I spat at him which made him very angry when he approached me. He was so close, I was able to detect his anger with the furious convulsion his body was experiencing.

"I don't give a shit about what you would like if you don't retaliate!" He seethed before he gipped the back of my neck with one of his hand and pulled me closer. His eyes pinned me as they were filled with rage. "The point is that they are here to kill you Dante! Are you fucking dense? For Christ's sake, open your goddamn eyes!"

I pulled away from his hold and instead, gripped his neck but I applied a little pressure on it. He inhaled his breath as he fought with me a little.

"I might be crazy but I'm not stupid Tony! Situations like this should be solved in a matter of ten minutes, so the **** would we need to negotiate when we all know that these motherfuckers are actually the dense ones for entering one of my properties?!" I growled as I glared at Tony who manage to push me away from him.

"These men are the one who killed you men, so if they can do that they can finished you." He stressed, "And I get that you got it all control with your weapons and-"

"Then what are you afraid of?" I cut him off,

"It's just… It’s just that the last time it happened, we lost her.." Tony said.

My body felt like it had frozen on its spot as my back immediately straightened. My stomach dropped when I was reminded of what he was speaking about. A tear gaze away from Tony and looked at the window as I endeavor to control my nerves, I had so many years to learn how to deal with it, today wasn't going to be the day I failed.

"Dante… I'm sorry, man I shouldn't have.." Toy sighed nonchalantly as he placed one of my hands on my shoulder and hugged me before he pulled away. "Just be careful on what you do, you are the last person to **** this up and I really don't want to attend a funeral." He gave me stern look and I just gave him a firm nod before I smacked his shoulder.

"Get the cars ready will you Tony?" I said as I moved away from him and gulped away the huge snot that formed in my throat, "While you're at it, inform the raggazzi's about this. I'll need my family to help me with this one." I said before I heard Tony chuckle.

"You got it Boss, right on it." He chuckled before he jogged out of the room,

I stared at the door as I watched him leave and just think about what he said when his words just repeated in my head like it's echoing. I clenched my fists when I looked away before I approached the window and glared at the fucking sky. I fucking hated everything.

(Bro what did the sky do to you? Anyways back to the story.)

And this all began when I lost her that day.

Adriana,

The only person I fell in love with, passed on and it kills me every time I hear the circumstances of her death because I couldn't do anything or be there to save her. It was all my fault and I was going to spend the rest of my life knowing Adriana died because of me.

I blinked a couple of times as I felt a tear escape my eye. I shook the thoughts off and wiped my face before I turned to the table and grabbed the guns, the ones I would be using to kill one of those motherfuckers who dared to step inside my brothel. I shoved the guns in my pockets before I turned towards the door and left to obviously cause havoc.

We reached the brothel after some time. I stood in front of my private property with my men right behind me. All our guns were ready to shoot but the only problem was that we had no idea where in the brothel these men were. According to Tony, there were men flooding the place so it was difficult for him to track which one was ours.

I instructed the boys that before we step in, we should hide our guns and spread out so nothing looks suspicion. A few of my men entered first before I entered and as soon as I did, my nose was filled with metallic smell of blood; I just clenched my jaw as I roam my eyes around the place, nothing was touched. It was quiet in there; I saw a few women roaming around the place with half of their ***** and tits out for the world to see and a few men but no one in particular. I stood up at the center with an eager eye before I caught someone waving their hands from the corner of my eyes, to get my attention. I turn my gaze towards it and see Tony gesturing for me to come upstairs. When I reached to him, he placed his finger against his lips before he proceeds to walk up the stairs.

I stopped him from going further before I took over, walking in front of him. This was my fight. I brought this fight on so I couldn't let Tony be the first to get hurt. In fact, I would be damn.

My jaw clenched with anger when we reached to the top to find dead bodies of my men. They were scattered all around the hall and when my eyes bounced to each and every one of them, I finally met the culprit who stood at the end of the hall way.

Giovanni Gusto.

The cocksucker who once worked with me is now working against me. He was a member of my Italian tribe, my mafia until I found out that he had been snooping around to feed my inside information to the one and only, Vito Destefano. I still have no idea why the **** he decided to shove himself up to Destefano's *** but as soon as I heard that he was involve with him, I decided that I was going to assassinate him through Giovanni. I have been planning to end that bastard for years and now is the time to do it.

He was the only reason why Adriana left and he was going to repent for his sins.

I glared at Giovanni with a determined look to kill him today because I no longer need him. He was not a relatable source to me anymore, in fact I was glad he came here today. For as long as I can remember, Giovanni was a very intelligent man, he knew what he was doing and made sure that no one took him for shit. However when he worked alongside with me, I learned that his biggest weakness was his father who treats him like he is worth nothing. Giovanni was a man with the looks and the brains so any stupid women would fall for his conniving traps. I know that once he uses them, they either end up dead or turning into his ***** because he had no respect for them.

"Well, would you look at we have here boys?" Giovanni said as his voice echoed through the hall. He spoke with so much enthusiasm and his voice laced with an accent that we all shared. "Dante Lombardi and his bitch." Giovanni chirped before he began to approach us with a herd of his men behind him.

"Bitch?" I heard Tony chuckled beside me, "See its coming from you because the last time I checked, you were his bitch." I couldn't help but laugh inwardly at Tony's comment because it was true. The fucker always has to crack a joke at a time like this when I strictly demanded that he should let go of this 'bad habit'.

Still made me laugh though.

"Giovanni, I must say that it was quite bold of you to enter my property with this kind manner?" I said as we reached each other. My eyes pinned his hazel eyes as they watch me with amusement. He was evil but not as evil as me. "Do I sense a war that's about to begin with you," I jabbed the tip of my gun on his chest as soon as I did, his herd of pussies began to point their gun at me, "Have started and mostly likely die in it?"

"No, no. Nothing of that sort." He answered with a smirk. "I've come to pay a little visit, as you can clearly see. You really forgot me didn't you as I still received an invitation. Therefore, I must congratulate you on your new business. I made quite an entrance, haven't I?" He snorted as he pointed at the dead bodies of my men,

"You see Gusto, the thing is retaliation occurs when you provoke it, no? I don't really see why you have to go through the difficulty to prove your loyalty to your fucking boss by ending my men's lives when you can just do that with one; mine."

"No," He shook his head, "I can't do that, that's my boss's job. Besides, where's the fun in it if I just kill here, right now?" His laugh filled the hallway and as soon as it did, Tony who stood beside me began to laugh.

"Is it really because of that or are you just scared?" I suggested in a whisper, "Scared that I'll be the one to take your dead body to your boss so he can see for himself on what he has himself gotten into?"

Giovanni stopped laughing when he blinked with anger stirring in his eyes. Venomous rage just filled his face as he clenched his teeth at my suggestion and it made me laugh because he was clearly offended. I buried one of my hand in my pocket while the other hand held my gun as I look at Giovanni with smug look.

"I will not let you leave this place until I've got your body in my hands so I can drag it to Destefano. You got that right, this is war and I will win." He growled at me like a baby tiger.

I couldn't help but laugh at his face.

"Is that so?" I mocked as I continue to laugh, "Don't think that you'll drag my body to Destefano who is next on our hit list?" I said with a smirk before I raised the gun I was holding and pointed at one of his bitch. Once I got a clear target, I pulled the trigger causing the dickhead to collapse onto the floor. "Come one Gusto, keep up! If you take to Destefano, he'll be the one to turn up dead." I tsked,

Raged soon turned into a death glare when Giovanni saw one of his men dead on the floor. He clenched his jaw and rolled his fists into a ball around his gun, the one that little bitches use and then roared like a little tiger.

(Now if you're getting confuse about what he just said about "He clenched his jaw and rolled his fists into a ball around his gun, the one that little bitches use and then roared like a little tiger." he means that he picked up the gun that Dante shot and rolled his fists like a ball)

"Lombardi! You are going to regret this! Yes, sorely regret this!" Giovanni roared when he began to shoot fire that missed me. His men began to scatter around the place just in time, my men reached us and began to knock each and every one of them just like a bowling ball would do to pins.

"Guarde e impara, Giovanni." I said as I targeted him with my gun and shoot.

(Guarde e impara, Giovanni \= Watch and learn, Giovanni \= Italian)

"****! ****, you're a dead man Dante!" Giovanni wailed as he collapsed to the floor. "****!" He began to sob as he continued to threatened me so I reached for him to see his face. It was painted with pain, he clutch onto his injured leg, the floor underneath him was welcomed by a pool of his own fresh blood that escaped his wound. I turned around for a second and saw that Tony and my men were fighting off a few bitches that came with Giovanni before I turned to see him lose consciousness.

"Well, what do we have here?"

I turn my glance over my shoulder to see Fabio approach me. Once he reached me, he places his firm hand on my shoulder and watched Giovanni's body over my shoulder.

Fabio was another one of my adopted brother and to be honest, I couldn't ask for better people to work with because these guys are legends. They are my Mafia brothers and my real brothers regarding the fact that they were adopted. In my eyes, we share the same blood and name therefore, they are my brothers.

"Take him to the warehouse and try to keep him alive. We need to speak to him." I said as I shoved my gun back in the waistline of my pants.

"You got it." Fabio said before he dragged Giovanni's unconscious body out of the hall and towards the stairs.

After a few hours of keeping a cautious glare on the fucker who was roped to the chair, I had enough already so I demanded Fabio to do some digging.

"Dante, this asshole is clean. All the records show that he worked with us but what he did after doesn't show up at all. He has nothing that could get us to Destefano right away." Fabio said as he scrolled through the iPad, the only source of bright light that was present at this dull place.

I clenched my fists as I glared at the iPad that he held; I was going to smash it into pieces. We had everything ready so Destefano shouldn't been dead by now however, the motherfucker took a new location that we have been trying to find for the last week. I've spent five years planning this only for him to ruin it again, this time nothing will slip through my fingers. I will make sure that I will hunt that dickhead and kill him for everything he has done.

My reverie come to an end when a groan filled my ears and as soon as it did, all our heads snapped towards the direction of where the groan was coming from; It was Giovanni. Fabio places the iPad down while Tony handed me the gun and a knife. Once time settled, Giovanni shook his head as he opened his eyes to only realized that he was tied up on a chair through the ropes that were wrapped around him and he tried to escape but only winced due to is injured leg. I clenched my fists as I watch the fucker before I turn my gaze to Fabio who nodded his head with furrow brows.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you." Tony advised him, "Sit still tigrotto, the pain will only progressively get worse. We wouldn't want to deal with your dead body just yet." Tony mocked him as he walked around him. Tony then grabbed a fistful of his hair and yanked it down so he can face us. I nodded my head at Tony and then approached Giovanni. Once I did, I kneeled down and watch his pale disoriented face.

(tigrotto \= tiger cub \= Italian)

"You did good Lombardi, look at the state of me." Giovanni groaned as he bit his lips to deal with the pain but I just glared at him with such hatred. It's not the fact that he betrayed us, it’s the fact that he has connections with Destefano, the one person I really wanted dead. I want to end him right now but I need answers and in order for me to do that, I need to keep my urges at bey. When it comes to killing him, I will take my fucking time just to give him a slow, painful death he deserves.

"I did tell you to watch and learn, didn't I?" I uttered as I got up and watch his face twists into all sorts of from the pain on his leg. "Do you know why you're here Giovanni?"

"No." He retorted, "Fill in cazzo because I really have no idea." He replied in a tired manner but sarcasm was definitely laced with it which made me clench my jaw. I was not having it with him, he came here and will not leave until he is dead.

(cazzo \= **** \= Italian)

"Well, you're here because you had the balls to come to my brothel and cause havoc so now, you are going to repent for your mistakes." I growled, "Also, I want a word on Destefano's location."

Giovanni laughed feebly as his head began to fall down on his shoulders. "Destefano's location? No chance." He laughed lazily before he began to roll his eyes back and close them.

"Wake up sleepy ****!" Tony replied as he pulled his head back up, "Now is not the time to have your beauty sleep! Answer the question before I shoot your brains out!"

Giovanni whimpered in return as the pain evident in his voice and his face. Beads of sweat just rolled down in his face in fact, he was drench in sweat. His hair was disheveled and his clothes was a mess, with patches of blood mainly staining his trousers. He closed his eyes and when he did, Tony smacked his hand on his cheek a couple of times which finally opened his eyes.

"Why have you come here? What the **** Destefano planning?" I asked as I pull my gun out and waved it across his face. He watched me for the last before he laughed weakly.

"Lombardi, you really think I've come here to tell you that Destefano is planning for the future of his Mafia? Then No, you're wrong." He chuckled, "But there was is one thing I can tell you in fact, I should've told you once I got here. It would've gave you plenty of time to be prepared, to say the least."

I straightened my back and looked at Tony before I glanced over my shoulders to give Fabio an apprehensive stare as I wondered what the **** is this puntura was talking about. I indicated Fabio to go check and he nodded his and then stepped away.

(puntura \= sting \= Italian)

I turn my back to Giovanni and grabbed him by his hair before I yanked him head backwards nearly snapping his neck. He hissed in pain and opened his eyes; There were bloodshot red.

"speak now or so God help me ti sparo alla gola." I bellowed as I glared right through his lazy eyes.

(ti sparo alla gola \= I'll shoot you in the throat \= Italian)

Instead of providing me with an answer I asked for, Giovanni laughed. His tired, sleepy dead form just laughed at me while I was on the verge of just snapping his neck ack and giving him this very uncreative death that I've been trying to avoid.

"Your brothel, the new business should be up in pieces now." He smiled "I've planted a present for you there. Unfortunately, It couldn't go off when you were there."

"What the fuck…?" Tony muttered under his breath, "Shit! Shit! Shit!" He growled.

"Hmmm and I think we must've just stolen all your merchandise as well as your club. You know, Destefano has plans to open business one day. I do hope you don't mind no?" he continued which only provoked my anger even more now. If I let any of this go or carry on, my Mafia would be in flames on the floor so I had to act fast.

I picked my gun up and pointed it at Giovanni's face who continued to hold that smug look on his face. Just as I was about to pull the trigger, Fabio came back with the iPad and stood closer to me.

"The motherfucker blew up the place and manage to hack into our accounts but don't worry I've already manage to freeze the account and all the assets." Fabio informed me and I nodded in relief, we really would've lost millions.

I turn my attention to Giovanni who was still smirking me, "We've had a very good catch up but unfortunately you are not reliable to me anymore. It was fun while it lasted, traditore." I moved a little closer to get a closer shot,

(traditore \= traitor \= Italian)

(traditore \= tradition \= Russian)

"You wouldn't." Giovanni laughs, but his laughter soon disappeared when I moved the tip of the gun away from his cheek and forced it through his mouth. His face dropped immediately when his eyes widened and his body began to tensed.

(No dirty minded guys.)

"Ci vediamo all'inferno, Gusto." Giovanni began to shout and yell out incoherent words as I glare at him. I clenched my jaw and pulled the trigger once and instantly, his body spasms before it can relax back on the chair when his bullet drilled through the back of his throat out of his head. His shoulder dropped before his chest began to stop moving from his heartbeats. He gurgled as all his blood spurted out on Tony when he stood behind him. The loud gunshot was still ringing through my ears.

(Ci vediamo all'inferno, Gusto \= See you in hell, Gusto \= Italian)

(incoherent \= of spoken or written language expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.

"he screamed some incoherent threat")

(spasms \= a sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement. "shifting heavy loads without help brought on muscular back spasms")

I watched Tony who pulled a face when he realized how much blood was sprayed on him so he began to wipe it off. I smirked at him before I turn my eyes to Giovanni who was now probably dead.

Enemies blood was the thing that satisfied me most, especially when it's under my fucking feet.

Giovanni disoriented…dead body was slumped on the chair as all his blood was slumped on the chair as all his blood was dripping from him and the chair he sat on; he was a bloody mess. His white shirt was covered in nothing but blood as his mouth was still releasing the fresh thick blood that escaped and spread through the white shirt, soaking it until there was no space.

The sight may be horrifying to others but me, It was nothing unusual. It is what I do every day, it's the only reason why we are still breathing today, how our mafia is still breathing because if we don't do this, we would already be dead by now like a rat.

"Ragazzi, my work here is done. Handle the rest," I instructed as I grabbed a towel and begin to wipe my hands, "Fabio, be generous and deliver his body to his family in one piece after you're done with him."

(Ragazzi \= Boys \= Italian)

"One piece? You sure?" Fabio questioned and I nodded my head as I head for the door, "Got it!" I looked at them as both Fabio and Tony untie the body from the chair and as soon as they did, Giovanni's dead body fell off the chair and onto the floor. I clenched my jaw as I glared at his body from the distance; Destefano is going to regret ever messing with me.

I'm going to make sure he experience the same thing he put Adriana through.

It's a promise I made to keep Adriana at peace.

***

"Come in," I answered as I heard a knock at the door. I glanced at the direction of the door and see Fabio entering before I closed my eyes and rest my fingers on my temples. "Is it done?"

"He is finished and so was the job, his body was delivered with one of his men." Fabio answered, "However, he caused a lot of damage. What are we going to do about it?"

"This is not my biggest concern right now Fabio, we need to think about what we're going to do now? The fucker already jeopardized our plan once and I won't let him do it again."

"What do you mean it’s not our fucking concern? This is our territory and he came out to ruin it!" He growled, "Seriously Dante, you need to work on something fast because things are not looking good for us."

"I'm fucking working on it and you know what! What need right now is a fuckton of men so when we find where that bastard is, those men can attack." I said through frustration as I stand up from my seat and walked through the window.

(fuckton \= A large amount)

"What if I told you that we can do something about it?" Fabio said,

"Fabio, now is not the time to **** about it." I turned my attention away from the window and approached him with a demanding glare, "What is it? spill!"

Fabio's curved lips into a smirk when he walked away from me and sat himself at one of the chairs in front of my desk. My eyes traveled him, following his footsteps as I was impatient on the inside.

This cunt really likes to test my patient.

I returned to my desk and leaned on the table as I glared at him for more information.

"You know, it would be very useful if you inform me about what we can do about what we can do about this situation?" I retorted as I rested my arms across my heart,

"Oh? You want to know? You could've just asked." Fabio said which made me clench my jaw and swear at him but before I can, he cut me off, "I know that Destefano is visiting someone in Italy to seal some business deal there, I still don't know when but I'm working on it." He says as I indicated for him to carry on, "My point is that if he leaves America, our assassination on him would be much easier, especially if it's in Italy. We can get it done there and then. Clean. Cut. Run."

I nodded my head as realization settled upon me that he was right indeed, Fabio in fact thought of a great idea so I stopped glaring at him and sat back on my chair comfortably.

"Now… that fratello, isn't such a bad idea." I commented, "Find out when he leaves for Italy, until then stay put and cautious. We just killed his bitch so the cocksucker will definitely look for us."

(fratello \= brother \= Italian)

Waiting for Destefano to go to Italy was a great idea because Fabio was correct, killing him here will only make matters worse. Also, if we do this in Italy, it would catch him off guard which I would prefer the most because he caught me off guard. He decided to **** my life up at a time where I thought things were beginning to settle. Italy should be a trip that I'm looking forward to now because I've been waiting for years to do this. I put my sweat and tears into this just to make it all go according to plan… only for Adriana.

"Dante, one more thing." Fabio interrupted my thoughts; I look up at him and nod my head. "When we were disposing Giovanni's body, we found his phone. We went through it and found text messages between him and Destefano." Fabio filled me in, "Those texts messages were not normal, they were in codes and we were able to crack one of them, they were talking about Constantinou.

My brows snapped in a furrow as I tried to comprehend to what Fabio was saying, this was impossible. I felt my ears burn up and the bloody rage was just filling m body, Constantino was the previous Italian Mafia Leader before me however, his work was all shit because he was a fucking fraud.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Fabio said which knocked me out of my thoughts again. I immediately shook my head as I try to avoid the suspiciousness, I really had enough to deal with, I didn't need another on my pate.

"Constantinou?" I shake my head again and refused, "I don't think he is involved with him in that way. He would've be a traitor to us."

"Well, you never know Dante, people change behind our backs. Look what Gusto did and look where he is now."

As much as I did not want our suspiciousness to be right, I had this strong feeling it would be.

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