Rise & Fall Of A Don

Chapter 24

Tommy Pov

I stayed quiet. I didn't move. I held my gun up, finger on the trigger. It's like they were waiting as well.

"Tobais, you good?" I asked.

"I'm straight. You?"

"Never better," I replied.

A dark chuckle came from the side room. He was reading something as he walked out. "You were a stubborn boy."

I looked on. Still not saying anything. He looks to be around 59 or 60. He had dark skin, too dark for an Italian. He had curly hair with gray in it.

He pointed to the paper he was reading. "These are all the notes that Hause was supposed to send me. But looking at you, I kind of see why he didn't."

I already knew the answer, but I asked anyway for distraction. "Who are you?"

Before he could explain I shot the guy who was holding a gun to Tobais head. He dropped the gun to hold his arm. "Don't ever try to strong arm me." I moved the gun back to the old man.

"Talk."

He chuckled again then made a signal. Everyone lowered their guns.

The guy I shot glared at me.

I kept my gun up high on the leader.

"My name is Detrex. I am your father."

"What do you want? Where the fuck you been. Your brother was brutally murdered almost two years ago. If you didn't come to ride for him then what do you want?"

"That was of his own making. I told him what to do and he didn't do it. So he paid the price. I wanted him back in Italy years ago. I was going to avenge him but imagine my surprise when I was rendered useless."

"Ok, good talk. Now get the fuck out."

"Watch it boy. Do you have any idea who you're talking to?"

"Yeah, a deadbeat."

"And you think you got to where you are with luck. I'm the one who had Hause hire you when you were 10 years old. I'm the one who kept the police off your ass."

The audacity. Him bringing up this dumb shit pissed me off. So fucking what. He did a couple things here and there. I really wanted to shoot him. All this time. All this fucking time. He could have fucking been there. I felt that killing heat come over me. My vision tunneled in on him.

"Stop man." Tobais grabbed the gun out of my hand. I gasped and blinked. I took several deep breaths. My skin tingled as I came down off that killing high. I wanted to end them all.

"That's your pops. At least hear him out." Sometimes I hate that my boys are so familiar with me. They congratulate me all the time on not changing when I got to the top. They have always checked me without consequences and continue to do so, but right now I wanted to punch Tobais in the face and grab my gun from him.

He saw the look on my face and smirked. I smirked back. "You can kick my ass later, but this might be good for you. He's a dick but that doesn't mean the rest of them are."

"They had a gun to your head."

"I let them do that. I wanted information first." He shrugged.

I turned back to Detrex. "What do you want?"

"You. You are my son. It's time you came home and worked under me."

I laughed. I laughed for a while. I grabbed my stomach; I was laughing so hard. I wiped away tears. I was done with shit. I wanted some pussy. I turned to walk away.