A/N: Zadie is up at the top
Ring Ring Ring
Ring Ring Ring
Ring Ring Ri-
I grab my phone off of the night stand and answer the call.
"Hello," I say groggily.
"ZADIE WAKE UP WE NEED YOU NOW!!!" yells Zach, my loud and annoying older brother.
I shot up on my bed fully awake now.
"What do you need me for at," I look at my clock, "4:30am? You know I have to take Katie to daycare at 6:30 before coming in and that's early enough."
"Have Aaron or someone do it for you. We need you down here ASAP!" he says.
"Ok ok I'm coming but what even happened?" I ask as I get up and start getting dressed.
"Someone paid with fake money last week and and it need to be flushed out of the account now before we use it to buy more dru- I - I mean clothes."
Yes my brother did say drugs initially. You see I'm a part of the DeLuca mafia. I'm the head accountant and have been since I was 18 years old. My whole life everyone here has tried to trick me into thinking I would work in a clothing business with my big brother but I've known about that lie for a while now. You don't buy clothes in large shipments weighed in kilos. Plus they names they use to try to hide the real substance of the boxes are whack. 120 kilos of binky's? Seriously that only worked when I was like 10. I don't necessarily want to work here but my family has a history of working for the DeLuca's and God forbid I break that cycle now. My brother Zachary is one of the top people in this 'family' as they like to call it. We all live in this mansion together so that Jimmy, the leader of the gang, can keep watch on his workers. It's not mandatory but it's the safer option. The job has grown on me but it's still a dangerous life I'm apart of whether I'm doing the dangerous things or not.
I'm finished getting ready now so I have to go over to the office where all the money and stuff is dealt with. Before I leave I check and make sure Katie is okay. Katie is the love of my life. She is three years old and has been in my life since I was 21. It was a big responsibility but she's totally worth it. When I walk outside my room I find Aaron and ask him to take care of Katie and get her to daycare on time. The upside of this gang is that we really are a family. I may not like working here but I do love these guys & girls and would do anything for them. And it goes both ways for me and especially Katie. It's like she has a house full of uncles and aunts, they all love her and spoil her way too much, but since her environment isn't normal I let them get away with it.
I get to the floor with the office on it and immediately see men and women freaking out in the hallway. They are all runners or dealers and they are worried that boss will fire them for letting this slip past them. Normally only the one who handled it would be fired but since it's gotten blended with the other money and nobody knows who did it specifically they could all get possibly fired. And when I say fired it could be actually fired or 'tortured' then fired. Whichever boss is in the mood for and judging by the looks on their faces I would say he's in the mood for torture...
I walked into boss' office and saw Zach, Jimmy (the boss- I'm one of the only people that can call him that... It's because I'm awesome!!! Lol) and a few other important people in the room.
Oh boy boss looks real mad. Just what I needed today.
"Hey guys I'm here lay it on me."
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT ZADIE!!!" boss yells at me.
Oh no he did not. I am not okay with that...
"Okay first dial it back Jimmy I did not ask for that 'tude. Second how is this my fault? My job is to make sure the money gets into the account and out without any discrepancies. Yes this is a discrepancy but I didn't know it was in my job description to examine every dollar your boys bring in. I thought I was supposed to just make sure you got your money, that it's the right amount, and that nobody steals money from the account, which I do. I deal with the accounts, not the actual money and you know that."
"Plus you have to admit that it's pretty funny how you got fake money right," I say as I start laughing.
Honestly I'm the only one who can get away with all of this but I use it to my advantage.
"Zadie no it is not funny. But you are right, this is not your fault. I'm sorry okay." Jimmy says. When you get past his evil side he is like another brother, that I have to listen to, who is dangerous. Basically my brother though right?
"It's all good. Plus I think I know a way to fix this."
"Really that's awesome Zay," my brother interrupts.
"Yes it is awesome and so am I thank you very much," I say sassily.
While this is going on the other guys in the room just stand by looking amused. This kind of happens between either Jimmy and me or Zach and me quite often.
"Would you two shut up so we can start fixing this," shouts Jimmy.
"Okay geesh don't get your panties in a twist," I snicker and say.
"Someone is still getting fired though even if we do fix this..." Jimmy says.
"Yea yea I know but can you only fire this time and not torture," I ask him and give him puppy dog eyes.
"Fine... gosh do you have to be so compassionate?"
"Yes yes I do" I tell him as I smirk at him.
"Zach go tell Monty and Marco that we need to get some new runners. Tell them to bring as many as want to join... we'll weed out the weak ones later," Jimmy tells my brother.
"You got it boss," Zach answers him.
Yup just another semi normal day with the added drama...but I have a feeling that this is just the beginning of something big.
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