Chapter 12: The Russian Mafia

Mysterio's POV

I listened as Dante narrated the message sent by the Deans.

They were the group of foolish old men who were acutely scared of me but didn't want to appear as the wimps they obviously were.

I had no problem letting them live though ...... Probably because I knew they were no threat and would probably never be a threat to me.

I knew everything about them

Romano Steifan

Denver Remires

Clover Sean and

Bolt Atler.

All of them probably around their middle or late 50's.

I had no problem with them as they were easy to handle.

They all knew I had all the info I needed about them and if they weren't scared for their families.

They were scared for their businesses as I tend to be ruthless when dealing with people who crossed my paths.

We held a meeting once every year held by the Deans.

All the mafia families....... atleast the ones who were left alive.

I preferred clearing up my enemies before they became strong enough to strike.

Everyone under the mafia line was supposed to be in attendance....... I always attended as it gave me a chance to either watch them all cower in my presence or notice the ones who'd grown a pair over the years.

If any of them had a plan, it was easy to know......just from their actions that time of the year.

They'd seem cockier.....eager to get in my way. But I always cleared them up before they could dream of executing anything.

And it would continue to remain so.

Now that I think of it.......every single member of the mafia families were married or atleast engaged except me.

Although they'd been a rumor saying Celine and I were together........ which not-so-sadly enough cost the lives of those who'd tried to harm me cos they thought I'd taken up my father's woman.

It was a shame they died over something so stupid as a rumor but people had to learn didn't they?

Power was everything...... If you had power then you had information, which led to knowledge.....

Which was exactly where the money was.

Now unlike the books like to put it.

People don't make money from just being in the mafia.

Ofcourse not.

The money was in the illegal business we dabbled in and the legal ones which kept us out of the papers.

Even the police in this country knew better than to mess with Mysterio Kieran but I'd rather I didn't have to kill anyone from the FBI or TEA.

So I ran a couple of drug dealing, weapon trading and money laundering businesses while I had substantial amounts of malls and restaurants scattered around the country to keep my wealth abrassed.

I almost wanted to laugh out loud at the ignorance of the cops...... If there was one thing that was always true, it was that behind every successful business, there was always the money of illegal businesses right underneath.

That was Knowledge.

This time though, the thought of sitting down for another meeting with the Deans didn't seem to settle well with me and my feelings were never wrong.

"Boss the annual meeting is being held tomorrow, Friday........ And they also said for you to not forget about the party that would hold a month afterwards" Dante continued.

If the party was holding in a months time why was I being reminded now?

Of what use would it be to me?

"Who's holding the annual party this year?" I throwed the question at Dante...... My mind far away from the topic though.

He paused before saying " The new leader of the Russian Cartel......." I stopped him before he could continue

The Russian Cartel had a new leader?

Why was I just finding this out now?

If the Russian Cartel had a new leader , I of all people should have been privy to this information ages ago.

Someone wasn't doing his job right!.

Dante saw the apparent confusion on my face cos he finally added "Ivanovich boss...... His name is Ivanovich Avery" he finished off.

The name didn't ring a bell...... infact Avery wasn't the last name of the former Russian Cartel leader so who was this Avery guy?

Maybe a distant relative?

But the former leader had a son right? I remember his son's name was Mendeleev Galentino.

Not Ivanovich Avery?......

I sensed something was very wrong... And my feelings were rarely ever wrong.

"Get rid of the current Tech man, and get a new one for me" I finally said without glancing at Dante who I was sure must have been nodding at my commanded.

"Yes boss"

"Also get every single information possible on the new Russian guy" he nodded stiffly before walking out.

You might have been able to not be in my radar Avery....... But I would soon find out why I was just hearing about this mystery.

By the end of the day Dante had gathered everything about Ivanovich....... which to my greatest surprise and anger, was very little.

I trusted Dante but even after sending him to gather information, I immediately contacted my other contacts in Russia and to my surprise

They brought the exact same information back to me....... Meaning the Russian Cartel was hiding something.

They obviously didn't want anyone knowing anything about their new heir Ivanovich Avery.

The first inconsistency I had noticed was the fact that the exact same day Mendeleev's father died , he'd run away and that exact same day This Ivanovich guy took over.

No debate or anything just straight up transfer of power....... I knew the Galentino's very well.

I wouldn't say they were good people but whoever killed Old man Galentino was obviously worse.....far worse than the greedy Russians.

The only valuable thing I could gather from the new Russian mafia leader was normal information.

He was a normal 24 year old guy.......quite young for a leader, although I was 22 myself. I was by far the youngest, he was apparently a tall blonde guy , schooled in New Mexico weirdly enough and was next in line after Mendeleev ran away.

This was utter bullshit!

What kind of worthless piece of information was this?

And more importantly why did Mendeleev run away...... Whoever had killed his father would definitely come for him obviously.

But why didn't he stay and fight?

Worthless coward!.

He was better off dead anyway if he couldn't fight for what he deserved.

I remembered when my dad dad died also.

I'd escaped myself but only to recreate all that we'd lost.

Everything I was today, was my own doing.

I knew my father would be proud of me.

I took nothing and made it all this.

Maybe he was going to return and do the same right?

If only I knew how wrong I was of that.

I was soon going to find out after attending the next annual meeting though.

Another chapter done!.

Sorry for the short chapter guys but as I'm not into anything illegal....yet lol. I don't really know how to express the business Mysterio is into. Still working on it though.

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