Lady Boss (3 page)

"And then what, you go back to school in the evenings so
Tommy can follow you home?" 

"About that young blood..." Her uncle Alphonso cleared
his throat, how did I know that I wasn't going to like what came out of his
mouth next. 

"Tommy's ours..." 

"He's what?" 

"We sent him to you, when we learned about the hit on Roberto
and the takeover here, we didn't know too much about you at the time so we
thought to play it safe and get a man on the inside." 

"You know him? So that shit you gave me earlier about him
following you?" I had Mouth by the shoulders. 

"I didn't know he was here until you had him tailing
me." She held up her hands. 

"So why did you still give me shit, you knew by
then...." 

"Just
my way of messing with you....." Cocky grin, I pulled my hair, what the
fuck, I felt like I was spinning out of control, how had all these things
happened without me knowing, I obviously had to go through my organization for
any more moles. Most of the guys were from grandpa's time, if not his men then
their sons and nephews. That's how it was; the mob is an incestuous
bitch. 

  I turned to Mikey and Tony.
"When this shit is done I'm calling a meeting, I don't want any more
surprises, the fucking Chicago mafia infiltrated us, and we had no fucking
clue, who else did?" 

"You're clean Flanagan, we did a run on all your men, not
only did your grandfather run a tight ship, but you've got a good head on your
shoulders. You were looking for the best and you got it, Tommy is the best at
what he does, the fact that you put him on my daughter goes a long way to
proving to me where she stands with you. Trust me if these things weren't
adding up in your favor there's no way she would be marrying you?" 

"Wanna bet?" I'd shoot his ass right here...... 

"Take it easy Tommy two thumbs don't shoot the cadaver, we've
got things to do." She pushed me towards the table. 

Prince of the City

We went back to reading and
planning. I called out for food around seven in the evening we'd been poring
over her notes for hours. 

I had her sitting next to me so I could feel her, know she was
safe, because each time I read how she had broken into some place or the other
my blood ran cold. 

The fact that she'd been in danger all this time, in my own
backyard made me see red. When I got to the part about someone breaking into
her bedroom back at home in Chicago I wanted to tear the motherfucker
apart. 

Luckily she'd been out gathering information that night and had
escaped whatever the fuck had been in store for her. She'd left the next day,
no wonder. 

Now
we knew the Staccos had tried to make good on their kidnapping threat. Dead
motherfuckers, they were getting more and more dead by the minute. 

   I pulled out my phone at
the end of my rope, fuck this shit. 

"Where the fuck is Stacco?" I listened to the voice on
the other end of the line. My men knew better than to make any excuses to me,
especially when I used that tone of voice.  

I hung up after getting the information, not what I wanted but
it'll do for now. 

"Let's roll." I was talking to Mikey and Tony but the
other three got up as well. 

"Fuck you two coming with?" Who the fuck was supposed to
lead in this situation, I don't brush up on mobster one o one like these
Chicago freaks, they probably had some kind of etiquette attached to this shit,
well I never had any intentions on going on a hit with another boss, the fuck
do I know about this shit? 

It's my turf, but this guy outranks me in our world, sorta, know
what I mean, not to mention he's my new father in law on top of that, they'd
tried to hit him, he deserved retribution, fuck. 

They were checking their guns; including my little gentle violet.
Breathe the sarcasm. 

"Mouth you’re not going." 

"What...you promised." 

"Yes I did and I will keep my promise that you can help us in
this situation, you can be of great help by trying to decode those cryptic
messages you intercepted." 

"Nice try Carmine Persico, but no dice, a deals a deal
welch." 

"Fuck." I had my head down, my hand to my forehead as if
thinking really hard. Know your enemy. The Art of War one o one, she read that
shit too though, she'd be watching for my play, my baby was smart. Gotta be
smarter, how was I gonna play this?  

There's
no way in hell she's going, fuck that. Ma would have my balls for sure I take
her new daughter in law out on a hit, uhuh. 

  "Okay, but if we're
gonna do this then you have to wear a vest.......I don't want to hear it."
I cut her off as soon as she opened her mouth to argue. 

"If you want to come along you have to wear one." 

"Where am I supposed to get a vest?" Now we were in a
face off. 

"What am I an amateur, let's go." 

She gave me a suspicious look before following me to the
door. 

"I don't know about this new son in law of mine Alphonso, he
doesn't seem to be any better at handling her than I am." 

 I
ignored the old man as I led her to my place. Mutt and Jeff were behind us with
shit eating grins on their faces. Assholes, I gave them each a glare which did
nothing to stop their disrespectful behavior. No doubt ma and the girls will be
getting a play by play first chance they get. Gossiping fucks. 

    Unlocking the door I
walked ahead of Ari as the boys who were now joined by the two old gangsters
waited in the living room. 

I walked into my walk in closet and touched the crease that hid
the mechanism that opened my weapons slash safe room. 

I walked in so she would see I wasn't up to anything. Grabbing the
new ultra thin bodysuit that's really a bulletproof vest in disguise, I passed
it off to her. 

When she reached to take it I cuffed her left hand, pulled it
behind her back, and attached it to her right. 

"You asshole jerk." She rammed her head back into my
chest. 

"Oomph, stop it Mouth, you know you don't have any right
being in on a hit, you know I can't do it, I can't take you into danger baby
please...just stay here I'll make it quick." 

She turned her head away from me. "Mouth, Mouth look at
me." I had to turn her head to me, she looked ready to kill, but she
didn't say a word. I gave her a quick kiss not trying for anything longer since
I needed my tongue for the duration of my existence on this earth and I was
quite sure she'd do her damnedest to chew it off it I tried. 

"It's
going to be okay." I brushed her hair back and kissed her forehead. She
pulled away from me. 

   Fuck me, and so it begins.
The last thing I saw before closing the reinforced steel door was the look of
betrayal in her eyes. Now I felt like shit. 

"Let's move, I'll give you guys the Intel on the way
there." I talked as I walked. 

"Where's Ari?" Rossi looked behind me as though
expecting to see her there. 

"Don't ask she's safe." 

"Oh shit son, you sure you wanna do this?" 

"Yes Alphonso, what do you suggest, should I take my wife on
a hit, would you take yours?" 

"Well now, I don't have a wife and the one you're planning to
marry isn't exactly the norm if you know what I mean. Arianna is........well,
let's just say she's not going to take this lightly." 

"Tell me something I don't know, at least this way I don't
have to worry about her little ass being hurt. Now are we going or do you have
more marital advice to share?" 

"Come on Al, Flanagan's got it all figured out, don't say we
didn't warn you boy, my little girl isn't known for her forgiving nature, shit
like this could play out for months." 

"Yeah
Roberto, remember her senior prom, that finocchio she wanted to go
with.....?" They went out the door reminiscing about Mouth and her
penchant for retaliation and holding a grudge. 

   I gave one last look
in the direction of my bedroom, my heart heavy. I know she felt betrayed but
I'd rather have her pissed the fuck off than dead. 

She'd just have to get over it, and I'll just have to love her out
of her funk. See no one before me had that weapon in their arsenal. I could use
my charms on her, give her some good loving and all's forgiven. Yeah if she
doesn't castrate my ass first. Ouch. 

I had to put that shit away for now; I had an asshole to
burn. 

Prince of the City

   I'd decided, my
turf, my woman, my hit. 

My guest will just have to take a back seat, it's not like I could
move into their territory and make a hit. Besides I owed the Staccos, they'd
been fucking with me for way too long. 

The son was still hiding somewhere but I had a bead on the father,
one’s good enough for now. I had no doubt that if I hit the father the son
would come out of hiding. 

Him I
wanted to spend some time with, marry my girl indeed. The fuck, what he'd
planned amounted to rape. He was going to force my Ari, like fuck. I'm gonna enjoy
fucking him up. 

   "Carmine Stacco is
holed up in a cabin in the forest two hours outside of town, no word yet on
where his spawn is but I'm sure when news of his father's demise reaches him
we'll flush him out." 

I imparted that info while we rode down in the elevator, everyone
had their game face on now; everything else was forgotten as my detail fell in
behind me when we reached the ground floor. 

My guards didn't seem surprised to see the two new additions and I
understood when Tommy showed his face. 

I
gave him a look that said I didn't appreciate the bullshit even if he was there
to protect me, I should've been told from the get what the fuck was going on.
He fell in with the others as we headed to the garage. I'll deal with that shit
later; right now I was fighting to keep my mind off the she devil I'd just
locked in a safe room. My balls curled up at the mere thought of what hell she
was gonna unleash on my ass. 

     I put all thoughts
other than what I was about to face out of my head, you never went into a
situation without a clear head. 

There wasn't much to it anyhow, they already knew what they needed
to know about the set up, what Stacco and his counterpart had had planned,
after this I would have to sit down with them and get names and shit because
there's no way they thought they could bring us down without inside help, which
meant most likely that someone in my organization was a sellout. Another dead
mother fucker. 

   
No one said much of anything in the car, this was serious business, we were
about to end a man, that shit was not to be taken lightly, the only thing I
killed without mercy was a roach. 

  The cabin was hidden
in the dense woods, there was very little light inside or out, and my Intel had
three men here with him on guard. 

Mikey and Tony got down to business using heat seeking equipment
to find the bodies. 

We had parked away from the place and walked in on a spread out. I
only had Tony, Mikey and the Rossis with me, my other boys were back up and
lookouts, I didn't need a whole platoon to take out one old man and three
guards, usually for a hit like this it would just be the three of us but these
two wanted in, I was even tempted to let Rossi take him and save mine for the
son, but this fuck had caused me to trap my girl in a room and I know she was
gonna be pissed as fuck, so I should at least get to kick his ass. 

 So
much for putting that shit away, even here she was never far from my
mind. 

    There were three
bodies spread out in one room in the cabin and a solo form lying prone on a bed
in one of the bedrooms. 

The blueprints had shown that there were four bedrooms, Stacco was
in the third from the front, there was a window there which had been discretely
left unlatched for us, we could go in, do him, and walk away, the guards would
never know, but if we wanted to fuck him over first we'd need to off them
first. 

"You want him?" 

"Fuck yeah boy." 

"Window." I stepped back, my sign that he should take
the lead. 

"You leaving the guards?" 

"They didn't do anything to me; they're just doing their jobs
that are not how I roll." 

Rossi turned and looked at Alphonso, then he smiled slowly,
nodded, and walked ahead. 

I spent ten seconds wondering what that whole exchange was about
before putting my head on straight and following him. 

  Tony, Mikey, and I stood
watch keeping an eye on the bodies in the living room watching TV while the two
old mobsters went around the other side. We could watch them as well so if
anything went awry we could step in. 

We saw them pull the window up and had a tense moment when the
body on the bed moved. Okay, he was just turning over. 

Rossi
stood over him with a hand over his mouth and a gun to his temple, I wish I
could hear what he was saying to the other man, maybe I'll ask him later. 

    We saw the recoil from
the gun, the head drop back to the bed and the two men leaving out through the
window. The guards never moved from their places. Silencers were the
shit.