A terrible mistake

Adric’s POV

We started to work on what Maya spoke about earlier, I was truly proud of her, at first when she came in I saw how those men looked down on her but after she spoke they were amazed by her thoughts, I have always known he to have intellectual thinking, she is a smart woman after all. I had a smile on my face when they asked who she was and I introduced her as their new Donna, their new queen.

She deserves the title because as long sides with me she will fight for the mafia, I know she belongs in this, she was born to rule with me.

“I need new.”

“He has rejected a lot of offers but there was one that was persistent, they were desperate for him to work with them, they followed the bastard everywhere he would go and even when he had a mission for the French mafia they were there.”

“Wait how did they know exactly where he was?.”

I know Santiago covers up his tracks and while he is working, whoever he is working for makes sure to cover up his tracks.

“I would say they were having a close watch on him.”

“Who are they?.” I ask. “What is the job they wanted him to do.”

“The Spanish cartel, I’m trying to look into the files but it seems like there is no record of what they wanted him to do, they had a talk a few times but it was quite private but I can’t make up what they wanted him to do but he declined all the time.”

What could be the reason behind his decline, Santiago loves his job and over the years I have heard a lot about this man. He declines when the money is not enough that is mostly his reason, the man has no conscience and he is not afraid of taking down any mafia.

I needed to find out the reason they needed him so much, they could have found any another assassin though they may not be as good as him, but some assassins were great at what they did yet they wanted Santiago.

I never had any relations with the Spanish cartel, why would they pin the murder of his wife on me?

“Are you sure it was them?.” I ask and my hacker nods.

“They were in bora bora, their cartel did some business and after you left they left.”

“Business my ass, it was a cover-up,” Stephen says and I nod.

It was a cover-up, they had no business in Bora Bora, I know for sure they don’t receive their shipment delivery in other places. A cartel only receives its shipment from its territory and they have no mark on bora bora, they were there for me.

“The men in suits, find the footage of them. I know they disabled our cameras and the cameras of the building but outside the building, there is another camera from opposite the streets.”

“Find it,” I added and he nods.

I noticed that camera the first day we went to meet Grace Santiago, I didn’t say anything about it but I was nervous that if anyone found out we disabled the camera of the buildings it would be easy for them to hack into our servers and find out the other camera we installed that is what happened with the Spanish cartel then they used that to destroy all the footage.

I take a seat beside my hacker while he tries to find what I need, he knows better than anyone. I am a man with no patience the more he tries to find this, the better for us because I won’t hesitate to cut off his hand to set it as an example for others.

“Here.” He says.

Stephen sits beside me while we play with footage, of those men. There were five of them when they walked into the building but only four came back.

That makes no sense.

I checked the other footage, they never came back and the fifth one never came out. Whoever it was was there when we went in, he knew we would go in, and he was watching us.

I zoom into their photos, I take the file that had the pictures of the Spanish cartel, some of their members that were recognized in the mafia.

It was truly them.

The first man there was Emiliano, he was the only one whose face was visible.

“Search from our other files, try to find out if Father had any relations with those bastards.”

Whatever is going on with Santiago, I know it goes a long way. It starts with father, it’s always starts with him, if he had informed me why Santiago destroyed our family this wouldn’t have happened, the man has a lot of secrets, secrets he took to the grave and when he passed down the mafia to me he never informed me of any of them.

He was secretive with his files.

“It’s locked, it will take a while to access it,”

“How many hours.”

“Five.” He says and I muttered a fuck under my breath.

Five hours. Even at that he is not even fucking sure he will be able to hack into father’s server, he had his own mafia database, where he kept all his secrets, I wanted nothing to do with him so when I became king, I started everything afresh and now I’m back reopening old wounds.

“Do you think it’s all a revenge scheme?”

“They won’t just attack me, Stephen, they must have a good reason given that we have never had any relations and even come across each other’s path. It’s either they want revenge for something my sick bastard father did or they want to destroy me and take over my territories.” I say.

We both knew it was the first one, it had to be, I let out a breath walking into my room.

“Stephen,” I call before closing the door. “Try and set up and meeting with the French mafia.”

If they are with Santiago then this may not be a good idea, I know they will try to kill us once they see us but I will make sure they don’t. I have to prove to them we didn’t murder Grace Santiago, someone else did this to her.

“How was work?.” I heard the angelic voice of my amore, she had a smile on my face.

“Stressful and annoying.”

I walk toward her wrapping my hands around her waist, my head nuzzles against her neck inhaling her perfume, it calms me down.

“Did you find out who is doing this?.”

“We did but I think it has to do with my father, he probably pissed them off.”

“And they waited until now to revenge.” She muttered against her breath.

She has no idea how the mind of mafia men works, they could wait months, or years. A decade before seeking revenge, my father always said “Adric, you never rush these things, revenge takes time and the longer it is the better.”

“They wanted Father to live constant fear and he did, till he died awaiting for their attack and now I’m left to deal with this.”

“I know you will be able to take care of it.” She smiles.

“Can we sleep?.” I ask, I was tired of everything and I know without a nap I won’t be able to work later.

“How about we have lunch together then we can sleep.” She suggest and I nod.

I took the phone and dialed a number, in about ten minutes the food was here, Amaya fed the food to me while I did the same to her. She is my safe place.

After eating we took a nap, it was more like we slept because I didn’t wake up till after five hours, and she was still asleep. I took a quick shower and changed into a different suit, I lay a kiss on her forehead before leaving.

I hope he has some good news.

“What’s wrong?.” I asked when I walked into the office, both Stephen nor my hacker didn’t look happy.

“It’s him isn’t it.” They both nod and I let out a curse.

“He destroyed their mafia. He killed the don and the Donna. The second in command took over years ago.”

They are executing a revenge strategy because of what he did.

“Any reason why?.” I ask.

“When your father was in the mafia, he wanted all of it. All power and and he was greedy. He thought it would be a good idea if he had control over the Spanish mafia, he tried to create an alliance but to no avail, and then he killed their leaders, what he didn’t expect was that the empire wouldn’t crumble a new leader instantly took over.”

I let out a curse when he said that.

“Now they want to take over my mafia,” I ask and they both nod.

“There are many more things to that.”