La Mà·fia

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"We've found them, dad," Marco said.

"Where are they?"

"Basiglio."

"What are they doing there? It's the richest town in Italy."

"We don't know dad. Once the snow has stopped falling we are heading there."

"Thanks for keeping me informed Marco."

"No problem dad. I'll keep you informed."

The call ended how the hell had they got her there.

Nicolo, Domienico, Vallea and his men had got on the private jet to the French alps for a four day skiing vacation, they were both looking forward to it mainly because they were booked onto the the same complex as their friends. The cabin held ten people, so he had booked two: one for them and some of the men and the other for the remainder of his men. The rest were at the house guarding it just in case of an attack, though it was snowing it could still happen.

They'd unpacked and headed down to the restaurant where there friends were and greeted them with beaming smiles and hugs. They'd all had lunch and got kitted up for the snowmobiles. They'd all got on two per snowmobile. Vallea and Domienico on one their friends on the other two, Nicolo and his men on the others They pulled away, they bounced over the snow Vallea holding tightly on to Domienico. "Don't worry Val. I won't let you fall off."

They bounced across the snow the snow crunching underneath the blades of the snow mobiles. They all pulled up to a clearing. "We'll ski down for here. I'll teach Vallea and you lot go ahead."

They all nodded getting off the snowmobiles snapping their skis on pushing away as Nicolo and two of the men stayed with him and Vallea as he showed her the basics pf skiing . They practiced for a while. "Do you feel confident enough to try on your own?"

She nodded.

"Great let's meet the others."

She swallowed and nodded. "I'll be still with you Val so will my men just incase you get onto any difficulty let's go.'"

They pushed away she hoped she could remember it all as they went down the hill side to meet the. Others using her feet turning in to break before them their mouths dropped open.

"I'm impressed Vallea seen as it's your first time I'm surprised that you didn't fall on your ass."

"Me too."

They all laughed.

"Come on We'll ski s little further there's a cafe not far away from here we can have a hot chocolate, a latte or what ever you prefer."

They continued skiing till they came to a shack apparently, it was the cafe.

They all took their skis off heading inside they placed their skis against the wall taking a seat, the waitress came over and took their order. "We'll head back after we have a hot drink so we'll get back before dark and we can have supper."

The drinks were placed down and they sat there for almost an hour letting them cool down before drinking them leaving the bill and a tip before gathering their skis heading back. They ski'd back to the hill where they took them off and hiked the rest of the way getting onto the snow mobiles heading back to the log Cabins to change for supper. After supper they all said their goodbyes.

"So did you enjoy today Vallea?"

"I did thanks."

Nicolo smiled.

"Tomorrow,you, Dom and your friends will be going snowboarding."

"Aren't you joining us?'"

"No."