Power not only corrupts, it blinds.

Don Enrico Sartori

I pull on the tie that seems to be hanging at this moment, the men in the room waiting for orders against the De Angelis traitors, what the hell happened to Giovanni to do that to Vincenzo?
It had to have been him, the girls' information and the many photos scattered around revealing the youngest loading the girls in the container leaving all the evidence necessary to incriminate him for the scheme to send the girls. Our diverted loads jeopardized the girls' entire sale and now I need to dress this shit up to cover up our asses. Sicilian chieftains are considering coming here for answers, it's not like the motherfuckers are brave enough to face my fury.
Bunch of political animals wanting to guarantee a slice of the cake that I will not share, this shit was Stefano's idea, my son, my heir made all contacts inside and outside the country exponentially increasing our profits without having to share with these hyenas. And Anna, my beautiful wife making the girls her dolls leaving the perfect ones to be divided between slaves for the brothels or collectors item. I can't let them sully his name within the organization, attacks within the territory will all fall on Vincenzo and have him thrown into a ditch like a fucking traitor.
I need to talk to Giovanni to organize the documentation covering the girls' transport, Brown looks like a furious animal drooling over the intercepted cargo under his attention. He's a perfectionist mercenary, he's been crossing the girls for years, losing the feds and the shitty Russians infiltrated across the country, Diego wouldn't agree to trafficking girls from his own country but the sale of amphetamines is enough to have a valid reason to enter his territory.
Now this little shit decided to kill my men in that shitty raid if he figured out the fucking scheme he might have given his warning that way, the payloads were intercepted at several different points along the route but not close enough for him to cross the border without being shot by my infiltrated men.
I lift my hands, running my hair through my hair, which now seems to be growing whiter, looking from one to the other to meet Giacomo's gaze in anticipation of orders. If there's one thing I've learned, it's always taking a step back from everyone, now married I can use that as a point to hit. He's good and he's moving up, but I don't have enough confidence that he's capable of playing this game.
I walk slowly towards the bar opening the buttons of the suit, leaving the appearance calm, sharks cannot smell blood, I serve a glass of scott turning my face facing one by one.
- We found the traitor. - I take a sip seeing my adviser's look of astonishment.
Not even he was present when we left the hospital straight to Giovanni's apartment, finding the mutilated body and the evidence, for a moment I thought that he did it because the youngest wanted to get out of the scheme.
Noisy sighs mix amid the gossip and desires for revenge, I raise my hand silencing everyone.
- Vincenzo De Angelis betrayed his home, he betrayed his family, he betrayed us by orchestrating an attack and the kidnapping of Antonella, and he was involved in the trafficking in women that we discovered involved the Riina.
- Were these motherfuckers together? - I let the silence weigh in the room
Pietro opens the doors recognizing the look, giving quick orders making two soldiers quickly enter the room carrying the black bag and opening it in the middle of the office, even with their faces not showing anything I see the look of someone who is shaking with the pieces of what was Vincenzo . The head cut off the body mixed with the pieces of the neck mixed with the bones of the neck, two huge cuts under the cheeks and the open body showing the viscera that begin to rot each of the twenty-four broken ribs, pulled out leaving the lungs. open below the shoulders twisted back.
Taking a moment to analyze this, Giovanni always liked the weakest to impose his will, I raise my hand to order the remains to be removed, I need to talk to him to understand this shit, it's like something is missing, since Stefano died something is always missing like a jigsaw puzzle not enough pieces and this is extremely annoying.
- Giovanni discovered his brother's betrayal and we collected all the evidence from the De Angelis family ledgers.
- Very convincing for Giovanni to need to be hospitalized after his brother was discovered as a traitor. I raise an eyebrow at the accusation of Francesco, Washington's capo.
- You're right, I want the heads of all traitors, feel free to hunt in your states.
I know I gained some points with the murmurs and the glittering looks, more than money the mafia was built on top of pain, be it the women we marry, the men we kill and offering blood always attracts sharks, that's going to be the time I need to organize everything with Brown and find out if Giovanni is going to walk out of that fucking hospital with a bullet in his head.
Giacomo cracks a smile, the unspoken promise of carnage in Arizona, and as much as he wants to have his eyes on the Costello brothers their trip to the former Riina estate will demonstrate whether or not they can be trusted to play this game, don't make allies, make enemies who owe you as much as you owe them. Things got out of control very quickly since Stefano's death, he was ready to take over everything, leaving the other capos in Sicily away from these shady deals, how many heads could roll in the middle of a war within Cosa Nostra itself if they found out everything that been going on for the last few years now, I can't forget how Giacomo himself was able to make such a treacherous deal with me all those years ago.
But the man's work is completely impeccable, too clean, too loyal.
Or not-so-loyal, he knew of my intentions in marrying Stefano to Giulia and he pushed Beatrice straight to the front line with a bow ornament for my son's greedy eyes.
There, he already wanted her yes, I'm sure of that, but how far could he go to have this marriage?
It's one thing to hand over your sister on a platter believing that Stefano would play by the rules with his wife, and quite another to kill both sisters to climb the ladder. Would he be able to do this?
And then the voice lights up inside my mind screaming: he did worse to mom and dad.
To protect the brothers or to seize power sooner?
The only shit who could give me that information died at the hands of his older brother, per dio, I knew marrying Giulia would have consequences but letting all the evidence fall on top of Vincenzo?
Unless Vincenzo's marriage threatened Giovanni, that's the only plausible reason for the De Angelis family to break up like this.