The Seventh Family

The Seventh Family

“I need to be there.” Danilo said. “I know you are the …family head or whatever but there are things you don’t know because you were not born back then. We are going to have a conference with the other families to unravel our common enemy. This must be someone or people from the past. We all have our suspicions but it does not seem possible because the seventh family was totally taking away from the picture.’

“Taking away from the picture?” Camillo asked.

“That is what I am talking about. You think you know all you need to handle this family but you don’t. Our parents lived a very cagey life and only chose what to let out to even family members. Some of these things, we had to discover ourselves. If we must have a conference with the other five families, I must be there.”

Camillo thought about it for a few seconds.

“Okay Uncle Danilo. Come inside please.”

They went into a room with a very large screen.

“The conference will start in five minutes.” Camillo said, getting a bottle of wine and two glasses and brought pout a pack of cigarette. He lit one and sat before the screen besides Danilo.

Danilo poured himself a glass of wine and also lit a stick of cigarette.

“What do you mean by the seventh family was taken away from the picture?”

“It is a long story and two minutes is gone out of the five that was left for the conference to start.”

Camillo inhaled smoke thoughtfully.

“Do you think the members of the defunct family are into this?”

Danilo shook his head.

“I thought about it but it does not seem possible but whoever they are, it seems they know much about the past. Maybe a more recent past.”

“Hmmm…”

“This virtual conference, is it secured? Do you trust them?”

“we are going to discuss top secrets so matter the amount of differences we have, no one will like it to get disclosed. I do not think anyone would let it out. This is easier than a physical meeting especially after the last burial day incidence where you invited them.”

“Yeah… I am glad you see the wisdom in my idea of calling them. No matter what, we must come together and figure this out because whoever they are, they are after us.”

Camillo looked at his Rolex wristwatch and drew his laptop close. It was connected to the large screen hanging on the wall. He connected and the screen was divided into six portions.

At that moment, the faces of the five family heads displayed. It was time for the conference to begin.

“Good evening gentlemen…”

“I thought it was a meeting between just the family heads.” Carlos said. “I can see Danilo and another young man.”

“My name is Camillo Harry Nicolas, the new head of Andy Family.”

Danilo saw the astonishing reactions on the faces of the men and he felt a bile rise. Only if he knew when Nicolas was going to make that stupid will, he would have killed him before then. He did not regret that his corpse was blown up.

“Gentlemen, we had a unanimous decision to let the younger generation to take over while we guide them. As you can see, the reason I am here is to guide him. But you all know who I am and he is my nephew.”

“That is alright.” Leonardo said/ “May we being, please?”

“Thank you very much.” Camillo said. “I must apologize on behalf of the Andy family for the unfortunate incident that happened during the burial of my grandfather. It was a misconception cause by some cowards who intend to thwart the road to peace and reconciliation amongst the families. These families have come a long way together and have common goals. We are like a body where a pain in one part affects the whole body. We know so much about each other and are connected. After my grandfather’s body was blown, we had our suspicions but when a similar incidence occurred to the bodies of the former heads of the other families, we had a second thought and fact began to consolidate.

Each family lost hundreds of millions of dollars mysteriously; every family head here inherited the position after the former was slain. We discovered that my grandfather was killed too. These could not be a coincidence. It was all premeditated murders with similar words or phrases always appearing: love or love day.

There is no doubt, the people behind these are the same and I perceive a long term nursed sinister. These makes it imperative for us to put aside our differences and figure out how to tackle this menace. Whoever they are, I don’t think they are done. In fact, it seems to be the incipience and it looks like an arranged list of attacks. First it was stealing of our money which all of the families experienced within a period of two months. From the sources, we all lost a total of two three billion, three hundred and sixty million dollars without trace. The manner at which these was carried out is worrisome. I see highly efficient professionals, computer hackers and organized crime gang.

Then the manner at which my grandfather and your fathers were killed was a slap on our faces. My father was killed right in our presence and we did not know. Don Vito was killed in presence of his family and friends.

And the worst is annihilating their bodies to insult us and course us pains and anger.

We do not know how they plan to attack next and what to expect. We don’t even know who they are and why they are doing this.

I just got aware that there was seventh family which I never heard of until a few days to my grandfather’s death. I do not know what happened to the family but intuition tells me that the family is responsible to whatever is going on.

This family feud and the victims are all connected. There were other families during even before the original seven but none of them experienced these.

We must know who our enemies are and dig out whoever is doing these and deal with them with no mercy. Thank you.”

Camillo said and sipped wine before inhaling smoke.

The older men saw a reason why this young man was chosen to head the family and this may have come from Nicolas himself because they knew Danilo would never relinquish power to anyone like he claimed.

“You have spoken well Camillo and I guess each of us have been thinking about this. We cannot help thinking about the seventh family but it does not sound possible. The seventh family was called Van Family and they are no more. They were totally incapacitated so we don’t see how they can do this.” Fred said.

“I agree with Fred.” Giovanni said. “I feel a friend of the family is involved in this. Don Van had so many loyal allies who worshipped him.”

“I think suspicions would solve the problems.” Anita said. “We have to go forensic. This must be done collectively.”

“The problem is they leave no trace. The money that were stolen were transferred to faux account before disappearing via cryptocurrency.”Camillo said. “I am not saying we won’t go forensic but we need to know more. It does not matter if it the seventh family or the ally. We must know more about the seventh family, the whole members and like I said, I do not know how they were incapacitated. We should know the possible allies still in existence to have a start.”

“Why did you not tell him what happened to the Van Family, Danilo? He deserves to know.”Fred asked.

“I felt saying the family was incapacitated is enough. Do we need details?” Danilo said.

“But….” Carlos began but paused as the screens of each of them scrambled for a few seconds only to display again. This time, it was divided into seven and the seventh part had someone wearing a hacker mask.

“I am sorry for coming late gentlemen.” The person said in a changed voice.” Please forgive my indulgence. It took a few minutes to hack my way in. Now the conference is complete. I am Shoe-Man Jnr. I represent the Van Family: The Seventh Family.”

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