*beep* beep* beep*
The alarm rang, as I got up and went to my closet full of suits.
" Which one am I going to put on today?"
I asked myself as I looked in a closet of black suits that all looked the same.
"Hmm guess we'll go with this one."
I scurry out of the house and went down to Cornelia to grab a coffee.
"Hi, I'm I-."
She stopped.
"Didn't I meet you last night? it was your birthday. "
She said pointing her pen at me with a soft smile.
"Yea Iyanna right?"
I said with a small chuckle.
"what can I get you?"
" You can get me some more coffee doll and stop running that mouth."
A big white man with a trucker hat and a plaid shirt with a vest over it said as he slid his coffee cup across the counter.
"Now that's no way to talk to a lady now is it."
I said with a smirk as I stood up facing the man.
"Oh yea, well what are you gonna do about it pretty boy, your just a boy in a suit."
He said as he flicked my shoulder.
I chuckled.
" I can ensure you that I'm not just your ordinary boy in a suit."
I said as I unbuttoned my middle button on my jacket.
" Then how about you do-"
"OKAY is there anything I can get you, Mr.Casanova."
She said interrupting us, again with this adoring smile.
" I'll take a coffee light and sweet."
I said leaning on the counter with a light smile back before looking back at the man and giving him a devious look.
I arrive at my office and when I open the doors I'm surprised to see the leader of the Costello group standing over my desk looking up at my father's painting.
" Mr.Costello what brings you to my office today."
I said placing my coffee down on the table.
"Your father was a very well and liked person."
He said turning around.
"But your father was on the outs with some people, my people."
"Is that so ."
I said bland .
"It is."
He said as we began to walk around the long table to each other.
"So get to your point Giovanni."
I said as we now we're face-to-face.
"That debt gets passed down to you and every debt has a deadline."
"Hmm."
I said with a slight chuckle.
"Funny I didn't see you at the welcome meeting with the rest of the mobsters, would have been an appropriate time to bring up such matter."
"Well you know us Costello's we don't like confronting."
"Funny you say that cause here you are standing in my office."
I said as we're still face-to-face.
"It's not good to have enemies in this industry fewer people to watch your back."
"Well from one powerful family to another I sure hope that wasn't a threat, you know how us Cortex tends to deal with that."
"Now if there nothing more Ms Gomez!"
"Can you show our guest out?"
I said as I stepped out from in front of him and pointed to the door.
He walked out not breaking eye contact until he exited out the door.
The Costellos were strong and wealthy they could never be like the Cortex but they were runner-ups, they were also known for making messes.
And at the head of their mess was Giovanni.
"Get Fernando in here now."
I said to Ms. Gomez I walked over to my desk hands placed on it, I was infuriated.
" Hey kid what's up?"
" He thinks he can just walk in here and talk to me, TO ME. Like that he thinks that he's the leader of this he thinks he can just come in here unannounced and throw threats in the air THIS IS MY BUSINESS IM THE MAFIA KING ,ME!"
I said filled with rage as I yelled and paced up and down the office.
"Calm down what happened." Fernando said with his hands up walking over to me.
"Giovanni comes in here talking all about how my father was on the outs with his people and how he owed this debt and it was now passed on to me."
I said still filled with rage but Fernando fell quiet.
"What?"
He still stayed quiet.
"You know something about this?"
He still stood quiet.
"You better start talking now or so help me go-"
" Your father."
He spoke.
"Your father was a very love and respected person but he didn't always meet gun to gun with other leaders."
I glanced at him as he spoke.
" Before your father died he had got into some business with the Costello's he never spoke on it to me, all I knew was it was messy and Giovanni wasn't happy. They had unfinished business and he's come to settle the ties."
So many thoughts flooded my mind but the only words I could make out were.
"I'm taking a walk home."
I grabbed my jacket and I walked right out that door.
"STEFANO, STEFANO."
Fernando yelled but I never turned back once.
I walked through the midnight street with heavy thoughts on my mind about the outs my father had with the Costellos.
"Hey beautiful re-remember me."
A drunk man spoke as a girl walked out of a diner, she walked fast trying to get away from the man.
"HEY, H-hey come here I know you hear me talking to you."
He said as he grabbed her arm.
She pulled and she tugged as she tried to get out of his grip.
"Let go of me." She screeched and scrambled.
He soon knocks her down to the ground and gets on top of her.
"How about we stop all that talking now hun."
He said breathing heavily as she tussled to get him off of her.
"You see I've been having a really shitty night and considering that I've already met you this morning at the diner and we didn't end off on a good start you probably already know how I feel about you. So I'm going to give you two options; one, you get off of her and get out of here or two I blow your fucking brains out all over this ground and recycle you like a cardboard box." I said with my gun pointed to his head.
He quickly got up and stumbled away.
"We gotta stop meeting like this gorgeous."