||Vito||
Vito stood in front of the building with fire writhing in his veins. The sign was crooked and the windows broken.
The room went silent the minute he stepped inside. He looked around the room, tables overturned, chairs broken, glass on the floor.
"What happened?" Vito didn't raise his voice, he didn't need to. "The place was attacked. Three guys came in, heavily armed and started pushing over tables and shooting. Killed Jimmy and injured Mark. The others are shaken up, but fine. And there's a note" Luca handed him a piece of paper.
It had eight words messily scrawled onto it. How about a game of cat and mouse? Vito growled, crumbling the paper. It didn't take a genius to figure out who did this.
No one in this world would ever be brave enough to destroy this restaurant. Any other restaurant but this. The Eliena was the first restaurant Vito had ever opened. Named after his late Mother, everyone who was anyone knew that this place was important to Vito. And it was off limits.
Only one person would be stupid enough to do this. "I want this place cleaned up and back to the way it was in the next week or it'll be your head on a platter" Vito growled. Luca nodded rapidly "yes boss."
"And not a word of this gets to my sister. If she finds out about this, I will kill every single person in this restaurant right now. Am I understood?" Every single person in the building had heard him.
"Yes boss" they nodded. "Luca, I want you, Joe and Dante in my office in two hours. And don't be late" Vito stormed out the door, vengeance on his mind. It had been a long time since he'd been so angry and he'd forgotten what it felt like.
But someone had awoken the storm Vito had worked so hard to bury and he would not rest until they, along with everyone they loved were wiped from the face of the planet. Vito knew exactly who it was.
Even with the absence of Vito's presence the restaurant remained silent. Nobody moved a muscle. They all knew what was coming. Luca ran a hand over his face and pulled his phone out, dialling Joe.
"Joe, it's happening" Luca could hear Joe's sharp intake of breath "when and where?" Were his only questions "Boss's office, two hours" Luca replied "I'll be there" and then he hung up.
And the building remained silent, the only sound was the clink of glass as it was swept off the floor. The next couple of months were going to be hell for the members of Vito's mafia and everyone knew why.
Luciano Russo had just declared war.
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