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Five years later…

"How dare she disrespect me? Her own grandmother!" Rose-Marie Knight was beyond furious.

Though in her early eighties and suffering from acute heart disease and arthritis, the woman had travelled all the way from Canada to New York with her two sons and daughter-in-law to have a family dinner with the whole of her family. While her two grandsons were present, her granddaughter, Tabitha, was missing. As always.

"Relax Mama, she must be busy with something." Logan, her elder son, tried although he himself didn't believe his words.

Things had happened. Things that shouldn't have had happened and things he had warned the family against, and they had lost their old happy and chirpy Tabitha as a consequence. Now the woman had become a heartless assassin void of any emotion or compassion.

Luke, Logan's son, glanced sideways at his cousin, Thomas, who looked like he couldn't be less interested in the drama.

Thomas was once a blind follower of his grandmother but the same incident that occurred a few years ago had removed the blindfold wrapped around his young foolish eyes, and now he was a true made man of the Mafia who supported his sister.

Their father, William and mother, Tara were also supporting their daughter, but Tabitha couldn't care less. They weren't there for her when she needed them and now, she didn't want them and their fake love and care.

"William, I want your daughter in my villa in a week's time. Is that clear?" She glared at her younger son, William Knight, the Boss of the Red Fangs Mafia.

By tradition, Logan, had become the Boss of the Red Fangs Mafia when he had come of age. Till then, for a brief period, Rose-Marie was in charge after the death of her husband.

Logan was a prosperous leader but in her late pregnancy, Logan's wife and Luke's mother, Marilyn, was shot. An emergency surgery saved the baby, but the mother gave into the injuries and Logan lost the love of his life and the very essence of his existence.

So, he gave up his rank, but still staying in the Mafia as the Under boss while his younger brother took charge because he wasn't going to let his little William deal with the big bad world alone. And now in their sixties, the men still ruled the Mafia together while their sons make them proud and anxious as Consiglieres.

"Mama, Tabi isn't a child anymore. She makes her own decisions and choices." The Mafia Boss said firmly.

Never was he ever going to impose another one of his decisions on his precious little princess. Rose-Marie banged her fist on the table, her wrinkles scrunching up as her face contorted in pain as a shock surged from the point of contact to her shoulder.

"She is a woman of the Red Fangs Mafia Family. She doesn't have the freedom to make decisions." She gritted each word out.

Thomas and Luke were ready to argue, but by the laws of their family, they could not speak while the elders spoke, so they gritted their teeth and clenched their fists as they controlled their urge to snap.

"Actually Mama, she does. Times have changed and so have some rules. You were Boss of the Red Fangs Mafia for a brief time Mama. Let my daughter be the Boss of her own life."

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