No One Knows The Mafia Lord

CHA 7: Painful Recalls

WEST

The drive back to the Mafia building was quiet but full of tension. No one dared to say a thing as we all kept cogitating on different thoughts but the same possible solution.

I need to have a word with Senator Jerrick Romeril. Soon we arrived at the Mafia building and straight into the Mafia Dungeon we went. Aerith handed the Senator's phone over to me as the guards guarding the Senator's dungeon opened the cell and I walked in.

"Aerith you know what to do" I signalled and she nodded before leaving. Rosa turns on the dungeon's lights due to how dark it is and there I spotted Senator Jerrick, he was chained on both hands and legs.

His eyes blasted with fiery the minute it casted on me, although I wasn't fazed by his show of anger I had pity on him. I barely recognized him with all the bones appearing visibly on his skin.

"Has he eaten yet?" my eyes were casted on the guards as I questioned

"Miss West ever since he was locked up in here, he has refused to eat anything but today he ate a little" one of the guards answered and I nodded briefly. No wonder he looks so half-starved, if he wasn't a persistent i***t his life wouldn't have been as pathetic as this.

"Get a platter of full chicken and a wine. He's going to need it when I'm done with him" I declared subtly as a smirk plasters on my face.

The second guard left to carryout my order, leaving just a guard, myself and Rosa with the pathetic Senator. I sat down at a stool in the dungeon with my eyes fixed on the furious man.

"You're a Mafia" he fumed, his rage was pissing me off so I simply rolled my eyes. I groped into my jeans pocket, pulling out a phone that obviously belongs to him and I flailed it over his face.

After a brief surprised look he started snickering so loud that my ears began to ache. Rosa looks at me with an expression that says "What's amusing the Casanova?"

"Who has a pathetic life now" he mocks and sniggered even more. I raised my eyebrows at him as he continues. "You couldn't hack into the phone and now you need me". His face etched a smirk as he chuckles even more. Rosa and the guard seemed confused as they looked at me.

"Of course I need you, that's why I locked you up here alive. If I had no use for you, I would have sent you to reunite with your dearly departed friends" I declared, my voice landing with resolution.

He glared at me with a scowl forming on his face and I snorted. "So are you going to open it or should I do this my own way?". My eyes morphed into a full grim and I stared at him for an answer. Judging from the look on his face, he's not gonna comply.

"Okay, I'll just do this my own way then" I signalled the guard to get something. About few seconds later, the guard returns back with a laptop; Aerith was live.

"Hi Miss West I'm out here waiting for the Senator's wife Lady Cassic, she's here at the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) since her husband has been reported missing" Aerith informs and I smiled.

"Now imagine what will happen to your wife when she walks out from that building. Remember there's something called 'A Strange Bullet' right?" I reminded as a half smile tugs at my lips. His bile and rage surfaced as he boils at me.

"You wouldn't dare!"

"Of course I will. Dare I ask? Aerith where are the Senator's children right now?" I asked as I darted my eyes to the laptop's screen and waiting for her reply.

"They are both on a vacation in Dubai, our men are already there waiting for your order" Aerith declares again with a strengthen look.

"You heard her right?, they're just waiting for my order. That simply means you're going to bury three loved ones all because of the password of your disfigured phone" I hissed, my smirk shrinking bit by bit.

Time seemed to have stood still around him and beads of sweat begins to form on his forehead as he cogitated. He's just going to be my pawn for the main time, at least through him I can find out who's behind the switching of my imported goods and if I do, I swear I'm going to give that person the taste of my wrath.

"SSR.com government official.com" the Senator's voice drops from nowhere as I gasped. I threw him a suspicious glance as I handed the phone over to Rosa to input what he just blurted. After a sec Rosa gave me a nod of affirmation and gave me back the phone.

Indeed his password is so complicating with the 'sss' accompanying it. I scrolled down his call history only to find a name that intrigued me as I gazed at the screen. Senator Cygnus Elrod, that name sounds awfully familiar.

My mind whirls to the past trying to recall where I've heard the name from but it was a dead end. I know almost all the Senators in this country by their names, but this one seems like I have known about it even before I became a Mafia.

"Who is Senator Cygnus Elrod and why was he the last person you called?" I inquired sternly. Judging from his expression he wasn't gonna say a thing that might be useful.

"That's my privacy, besides Senator Cygnus is just my colleague in the government. We were close friends before we got an advantage of going into politics. He replaced Senator Liam de la Cruz after his death and I replaced Senator Asher Johanson after he died in an airplane crash. Please I know nothing about what you want me to reveal" he quells in a pleading look.

I paused as my legs were rooted to the ground, frozen. It just couldn't be what I'm hearing. My blood ran cold as I went completely numb, I could hear indistinct voices from those present but their voices were too tiny in my head for it to be heard.

A limp in my throat forms and the colour drains from my face. Senator Liam de la Cruz, my Father! Tears brims in my eyes as the painful memories began flooding into my mind.

"Father, Father what will you buy me for my birthday?"

"Anything princess!"

"Dad has left to buy my birthday present!"

The phone call after four perturbing days

"We found Senator Liam's lifeless body in the woods"

"He was ambushed and murdered in cold blood"

The investigation

"The suspect is Senator Asher Johanson since they were rivals"

"The suspect Senator Asher has been reported dead due to an airplane crash in an attempt to flee the country"

Father!!!!

My Father was once a Senator who aspired to become a president one day. The elections and campaigns began, my Father was a strong and defined candidate for the presidency elections, I was still nine then with few months left before I turn ten.

My Father was undeniably happy because his winning of the election was guaranteed and he had the full support of the people. Along the line Father gained a rival, an enemy, a candidate from an opposition party; Senator Asher Johanson.

They went to an intense extent of the Senator threatening my father's life. I knew all these because I was pretty close to my Father. Once again the sun rose and it was my 10th birthday, dad promised to buy me whatever I needed for my birthday like he always does.

I wasn't so lucky this time because my life was going to drastically morph around. Dad left that faithful day with his escorts and they never came back. After several days, father's body was found in a bush.

My Father was brutally murdered, countless bullets and also deep injuries caused by axes; his killers were sure ruthless, merciless and cruel. After some investigations, Senator Asher was found a suspect because of his threat towards my Father.

According to them, Senator Asher tried to flee the country hereby escaping imprisonment but unfortunately for him, their airplane crashed and not even the airplane's wings survived.

But I've grown not to believe that, I have this strong intuition that my father's murderer still lives and I will stop at nothing to hunt him down, no matter how many decades it takes me.