Chapter 36
John
We were on our way to the next bodega, I was in my head about what Frank said not the fact that something grows in our pants every time Caterina is near but if I think she will be able to run the Mafia families and it was true she only had 3 days with us and we can’t make any conclusions now but I’m sure there is something left inside her that is still a Capone and that will make her push through. Or that was my hope.
When we stopped in front of the next bodega things felt off, Dario felt it to. “Stay outside boss.” “No, I’m coming with we both had firearms so why should I stay? Where my men go, I go, that was how I was, I wasn’t afraid of danger. We walked in like we were normal customers there was a few customers that looked scared as they looked at those at the back of the store. The bodega manager didn’t greet me he just lifted his head towards the 3 in the back. As we walked past other customers, we told them to go outside. One of the Scorpions heard us he looked at me and said “El jefe esta aqui.” Which translate to ‘The boss man is here’ “Can I help you guys with something?” “El no nos entiende.” The big mouth said to the other two. “Oh, I do understand you I’m just not in the mood to speak your language you are in MY store. What the fuck do you want?” No one has drawn their firearms yet so, so far so good. “You know what we are looking for.” The big mouth said or was he the leader? “Sorry I have no clue.” “Don’t play dumb with me.” The big mouth one said again. “I’m not and if you are not going to buy anything please leave my store immediately.”
“You are throwing out a potential customer?” He tried to bait me. I could see Dario was on the verge of grabbing his gun and shooting all three of them but that will cause problems, problems I can’t have now, not with Marchetti on my ass. “It doesn’t seem like we have what you came here for so again please leave.” The one that didn’t say a word looked at me then at Dario, then he started to walk towards the door, he didn’t say a word. But me being me had to have the last word so I told the big mouth one, “Now get, follow your leader. There is nothing here for you.” That made him angry “Vete a la Mierda” he said as he pulled his gun which made Dario and I pull our guns the calm quiet one didn’t pull his gun he just said “Vamos nos vamos.” The other guy put his gun back in the back of his pants and the three of them left my store, peacefully, thank God I almost thought I had to shoot them.
“How long where they in the store?” I asked the manager. “About 5 minutes before you, I had my hand on my shotgun boss those three were looking for white candy.” “I know, they were at one of the other stores as well.” “Fuck boss if they opened the other door they would have found it.” “Call all the dealers they need to come and collect their stuff today. I don’t want any candy in the store none.” “I’m on it boss.” The bodega manager said as he grabbed his burner phone and send messaged to all the dealers on this side of the bridge. Dario and I left the bodega and was on or way to the next one. Everything looked quiet as we approached nothing looked out of place. But as soon as I saw the bodega’s managers face, I knew there were problems, both Dario and I pulled our guns. “Where?” I asked the Bodega manager softly. “With the Candy.” “Fuck” Dario said. “Go out and keep the customers away from the Bodega and don’t call the police.” All my managers know they shouldn’t but still when you are in a stressful situation you tend to call the police.
Dario and I neared the back of the Bodega, Dario counted down “Three, two, one” Then he kicked in the door and who do we find inside the fucking bodega the same fuckers as the previous store, couldn’t they think we will come here next. “Drop your weapons.” Dario said. Not one of them moved, it was like they were deciding in their heads if they were going to try and shoot their way out of this. “Suelta tus armas.” I screamed at them which is exactly the same as what Dario said. They looked at each other and slowly bend down but before they could put the guns down, they turned around and fired at us, luckily for us Dario and I was just as quick on our guns, we hit all three of them but one of them got a shoulder shot in and I was the lucky one. “Boss boss boss.” Dario said as he ran to me. “I’m okay it’s just my shoulder, make sure those mother fuckers are dead.” Dario went to the three bodies and looked for a pulse just one of them was still alive. Dario stopped the bleeding and put him at the back door the others have to stay in this room until we could get my cleaning crew to come and clean this.
“I’m calling the doctor.” “Do that while you take the car to the back, we need to get this one to talk. Frank needs to get a hold of him.” Frank was our interrogator. I walked out of the office as the manager of the Bodega walked into the store again. “Oh, shit boss.” “Just get me the compression bandage please.” He gave me a roll and helped me to wrapped it around my arm and shoulder to stop the bleeding. “I’ll send the cleaning crew to fix that room for now just locked it okay.” “Yes boss.” “Well then you can go on with business.” “I’ll just clean the blood first.” That’s when I noticed I’ve dripped all over the floor as well as the other guy. “Okay but make it quick we don’t want to police to come and investigate. You know they like to patrol outside of the bodega regularly. Waiting for us to slip up.” “I’m on it boss. You go home and look after yourself I’ve got this.”