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"Have you landed?"
"Yeah, we just got here."
"Get to the villa now."
If I didn't know the man better, I'd say there was panic in his voice.
"Vinnie, what's going on?" I asked.
"My grandfather just called. Someone just took out the D'Angelo family."
"Which ones?" I assumed there was more than one family member that had died considering how he had phrased his words.
"All of them."
My breath caught. "What?"
"Apparently everyone got together for a wedding. Someone placed a bomb at the venue. It took out every member of the D'Angelo family plus another thirty guards."
"Who would do this?" Family members fell under the family veil. Spouses and children of mafia families were off limits in disputes because of that veil.
It was a sacred rule that no one violated because they wanted their own spouses and children to fall into that category as well and if they didn't respect it with others then they couldn't expect others to respect it for them.
Unfortunately, not everyone followed that rule, but most did. It also meant that there was a high probability if someone violated that rule, the other families would get involved.
"Who did this?" I asked again. "Was it one of the other families?"
There were four major families based in Italy, my family being one of them. Borelli's family was another one, with D'Angelo being the third, and the fourth being the Romano family.
I knew it wasn't my family that had done this and I doubted that it had been Vinnie's. That left the Romano family. "Could it be the Romanos?"
"This isn't like them," Vinnie replied. "I could see them taking out the old man, but not the entire family."
"Well, it wasn't me. I wasn't even in the country."
Not that that I couldn't have ordered it done from Canada. I just wouldn't. Like Vinnie, I refused to cross that line because I wanted my own family to fall under the veil.
"It may not have been one of the families," Vinnie stated. "We won't know until there is an investigation."
"Police or...?"
"Oh, this will be investigated by the police. I have no doubt about that. Children were involved and the body count is over eighty people. I just think there will be another investigation behind the scenes that they won't know anything about."
"Is anyone in charge now?"
"Vito Antonelli is still in charge."
My eyebrows lifted. "He's alive?"
He was a good man, even if he wasn't from the main bloodline. I'd worked with the underboss on a few occasions and he had a sense of honor that went bone deep.
"His Uncle Carmine was flying back from a business meeting so he could attend the wedding. Vito went to the airport to pick him up. The bomb went off before they got back."
"You don't think—"
"No, no, everything about Vito going to get Carmine checked out. My grandfather already looked into that. Vito is going to need some help with all of this and my grandfather wanted to clear him before we agreed to work with him."
Good idea.
