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I’ve been on the receiving end of his ire, and I know how dark that can be.
Elio mutters again. Then, his voice gets clear. “Nico, what else is happening, if the investigation doesn’t have any updates.”
What investigation?
“Nothing much, boss. The Irish are trying to say that we sold them bad guns, but Declan was there and says there’s nothing wrong with them.”
Elio snorts. “They’re trying to get a refund.”
“Si, well I think so. I think someone is trying to bring down a local biker gang.”
“Interesting,” Elio rumbles. “Gia, did you know about this?”
“The motorcycle gang or the takedown?”
“Boss, you don’t wanna know,” the guy on the phone says.
Gia snickers, and I hear Elio sigh. “Gia, what do you know?”
“According to the guy I met…”
“Boss, she didn’t just meet…”
“Stop being a fucking rat, Nico,” Gia snaps.
The person on the phone laughs. “Ok. Continue, Ms. Boss.”
I’m surprised that they treat Gia with deference. My brothers aren’t misogynistic by any stretch, but there’s a lot of traditions in the business that exclude women, pretty universally.
One of them is having women in positions of power.
But clearly, Gia is important. Maybe not more important than Elio, but the man on the phone is clearly deferential to Gia as well as Elio.
Interesting.
“What I said before I was so rudely interrupted was that the guy I met says that there’s something weird happening out there in the boonies.”
“Weird like what?” Elio asks.
I press closer. The boonies? That could mean anywhere rural from Texas to Wyoming to….
“Well for one, it’s been rural New Jersey that’s being targeted a lot in the past week.”
I freeze.
Elio’s voice holds a frown. “What’s happening?”
“Break-ins. Couple of kidnappings. Mostly in places that people consider to be pretty stable and safe. Real Leave-It-To-Beaver type spots.”
“I don’t see what a couple of teenage hooligans have to do with targeting a biker gang.”
“It’s a little deeper than that, and most of the members have had their families targeted.”
Jesus. At least Nonna Mia doesn’t have anything to do with a biker gang, or I’d be more worried. I’m a little less nervous now, but still very interested.
“There have been more in the past two days,” Nico clarified on the phone. “Arson mostly.”
“More?” Gia’s concern is evident. “Where?”
