A loud annoying sound rang out. it was her alarm. she made it annoying so she wouldn’t be able to ignore it. she yawned as she lazily stretched her hand and put it off. she picked her phone. it was eight o clock in the morning.
events of the previous day came flooding in.
she picked up her phone , unlocked it and scrolled through the call log. she stopped when she found the number she was looking for. it was Lorenzos
she inhaled as she waited for him to answer the call.
“uh… good morning, Bianca” she heard him say over the phone.
“how was your night?” he asked
“it was good” she replied
there was a momentary silence between them and she knew he was waiting for her to tell him why she called this early.
“let’s meet” she said “let’s meet up, Lorenzo”
“uh… sure” she could clearly hear the surprise in his voice.
“I’ll text you the location, okay?” he said
“that’ll be great, since you’re good at doing it” she said
“okay, see you” he replied and hung up.
she let out an excited scream when the call ended.
she was crazy. she really was crazy.
she woke up in the morning and she hadn’t gotten up from bed or washed her mouth or said thanks to God or … she hadn’t done any frigging thing except calling a guy.
was she that desperate? would he think her to be cheap? for a moment, she thought about calling him again and cancelling the plans or explaining herself.
she wasn’t going to do that.
she got up from the bed and headed straight to the shower.
shedding her pyjamas, she stepped into the bathtub. she’d decided against a bubble bath today because she wasn’t relaxed. she’d only bubbled her bath whenever she planned to stay for hours in the bathroom.
she wasn’t going to stay for long now, she had to go see Lorenzo.
what the hell was wrong with her? she hadn’t been this eager to see any of her lovers in the past, why was she acting this way?
minutes later, she was out of the bathroom.
towelling herself dry, she applied lotion and combed her hair. she was going to wear a ponytail today. it was a new look that she wanted to try.
she was out in a matter of minutes. how was she going to busy herself now? Lorenzo hadn’t texted her the location of their meeting so it meant she had to wait.
as she came down the stairs, she saw her mum seated with her uncle Luigi and June.
“good morning mum” she greeted “good morning Zu,” she greeted Luigi.
“you came right on time ” her mom smiled. she didn’t know if she could call her mom’s smile, an actual smile because it didn’t reach her eyes.
“come here ” said her mom “you need to know about this ”
finally! Bianca sighed, there was something to do while she waited for Lorenzo to text her.
“the Sforzas have finally retaliated” said her mom “our extortion from the shops in the outskirts of Parlemo”
“the one I told you about, a day before yesterday?”
“yes” she replied. she remembered all too well. she didn’t joke with information concerning the Sforzas.
“those jerks beat us to it” her mom ground out.
“why Madre?” she asked “they know that’s our turf. Why’d they butt in?”
she thought again, she didn’t joke with information concerning the Sforzas. in fact, she wasn’t interested in anything mafia, unless it had to do with the Sforzas.
those empty vessels had finally crossed the line. they left the shops they usually extorted from, and came to theirs.
“what are we going to do about it, madre?” she asked her mom.
“it’s a cycle going on between our families now” her mom smirked “we’ll strike back ”
“how?”
“that’s why I called you, Mia figlia. you and your uncle should think of something ”
she was pretty good at this. plotting revenge wasn’t a hassle to her.
“why don’t we hijack their goods again?” she suggested
“that’s dangerous” Luigi finally spoke ” they’ll be prepared for us this time”
“we can go when they least expect it” she added “look Zu, I sent a soldier to the Sforzas to gather information. although he wasn’t doing well, he still managed to get some”
her mom and Luigi sat up. their expressions meant she had them hooked. she smiled.
“the soldier I sent brought back a rough estimate of their schedules” she explained “the young Sforza don is working, but he’s not too focused. he leaves the Sforza villa everyday. their underboss covers literally everything. the Sforzas usually smuggle goods on Saturdays and Wednesdays. they smuggle drugs on Monday and Sunday. they sell their stolen goods on every other day” she explained
“And?” her mom prompted
“patience, madre” she replied “according to my source, they load the amount of goods they want to sell in a truck, and they drive it to different venues where they’ll sell it”
her mom didn’t reply. she sensed that the pieces were starting to fit.
“so what you’re saying now is that we should ambush them on their way to sell?” her mom’s eyes glinted
“yes, madre” she replied. “I was also told by my source, that, the Sforzas usually packed the largest goods to sell, on Tuesdays”
“so we’ll hijack their goods on Tuesday?” her mom asked and she nodded her reply
“la mia amica del coure” her mom gasped “you have it all figured out. I’m so proud of you”
“thanks ” she smiled
aside from the time she spent almost everyday with Lorenzo, she also planned stuff for the Sforzas everyday. she didn’t want to rest until she ruined every single one in Giovanni’s mafia. her only problem now was the new mafia don. she only knew that his name was Lorenzo Sforza. her source hadn’t given her a detailed report of him. she needed to know everything about Giovanni’s family in order to take them down.
“that’s what your dad would want, even in his grave” her mom said to her, interrupting her thoughts.
her phone beeped. she opened it. it was a text from Lorenzo and it said
‘let’s meet at the amusement park from the other day’
she smiled as she read it. finally, she was going to meet him.
“we have just struck a truce with one of our mafia foes” her mom said to her “we’ve been invited to celebrate the peace between our families”
“okay?” she didn’t know why her mom was telling her that
“I want you to come with us. the Grecos will be delighted to meet our new boss” her mom said
“um–sorry mom, I’ll pass on that one ” she replied
“there’s no passing here ” her mom frowned “you are coming with us”
she couldn’t forfeit her meeting with Lorenzo because of her mom
“I’m not going. I have plans elsewhere”