The Four Mafia Men and Their Prize by M C

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Third Person POV

FIVE MONTHS LATER

Jason. Charlie, Kai, and Ben, leaders of the Irish French American Mafia, were buried in their respective duties. Jason and Kai spent their days training with the men, running orders around the world with such vigor and malice. They increased their production ten–fold and although shipments were still ambushed, only one in every ten raids were successful and each attempt ended in a bloodbath. No mercy was their new motto.

Charlie was busy opening new businesses and merging with companies to keep up with the expansive illegal tender that their mafia was overhauling.

Jason, Kai, and Charlie would spend their evenings at various bars and strip clubs. They would drown themselves until they felt numb, allow women to feast upon their flesh and shower them with pleasure just to ease the pain in their hearts. They killed people, young and old, men and women in flashes of anger without mercy and without a second thought. Their men were always afraid of the monsters who held the seats of power, but now they quivered in their shoes at merely breathing in their presence.

Each man had their way of coping at the loss of their girl. They missed her presence. They missed her wicked sense of humor. They missed touching her and watching her reactions. They were angry, sure, but more deeply they were depressed. She was theirs and she was gone without a trace. Each day that she wasn’t found, brought out more beast than man. Even Thomas and Draco kept their distance.

But Ben was a little different. He was the only one who channeled his rage into productivity. Ben spent his days with his nerds, coming up with more and more advanced technology. But at night, when the others were passed out drunk, Ben was combing through security footage. He hacked every network he could get his hands on, developed a new recognition software, continued to look. He would only close his eyes for a few hours in the early morning before starting back up again.

It has been five long tortuous months since Aurora disappeared. There was an explosion in one of the warehouses at the other end of the compound. To the men, she somehow left during that time and it short wired most of the cameras. Even our secret cameras and tracker they slipped into the necklace she always wore was not responsive

either.

Every time there was a lead on her, a person of interest brought in, a smidgen of hope, it would disappear before anything could be done. The footage would disappear. The witnesses or people would be missing or dead. The soldiers who saw her flee, dead. The guard at the gate, dead. The store owner in the next city where she got gas went missing two hours before they arrived to question them and his whole building was destroyed in a gas leak explosion“. They were running in circles. The guys knew she was smart and resourceful, but someone had to help her and that was the most upsetting of all.

It was particularly infuriating for Ben as he prided himself on being the best in the tech world and they surrounded themselves with the best! How someone managed to be two steps ahead when they were already seven steps ahead

themselves.

be obvious once he found it, he just had to

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he and his nerd squad were searching the archives and one of his pals, Christina, mentioned something about all the raids they have been getting in the last few years. And something clicked where Bem decided to have his team pull all records from

he did.

friends in months. So he sent out a text demanding Charlie, Ben, Kai. Thomas, Draco, and their visiting buddies Tom and his

drinks and tun.

their main of course, but Tom was one of the commanders for their European division.. Tom grew up with Kai and them when Charlie and Jason came into the picture, the guys all clicked instantly and became good friends. Jason evem presided over Tom and Camden’s wedding a few years back. They were in town to pick up their new baby twins Common and Tabitha who were graduating from the NICU in the morning. Jason, Charlie.. Ben, and Kai all helped sponsor them and helped make all the arrangements. Tom was just as cruel as the lot of them and when it came to his family, he could match Rai’s sadism. Those

Jason raised his full glass of whiskey to the other men who were taking sis of their amber liquids around the pool tables. Thick Smoke filled the

and Camden were beaming. For the first time in months, the guys were smiling and enjoying each

Kai, Jason, and Camden were playing pool. Tom and Thomas were entranced by the video game consoles playing some sort of post–apocalyptic shooting game, and Ben and Charlie were trying to

and it was confirmation about a

deal bitches” Jason cackled, lining up his sont on the

“Yes!” He celebrated.

are we doing this” He was already trying to assess the new properties he was going to have to invest

This was by far one of the lingest diralls they

some of the obscenities the guys screamed out. This was going to be a massive operation but it was going to

and raised his glass to all his closest men who followed suit and they all clapped and cheered. They

Charlie said, a

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and Ben nodded and