While Running With Wild Dogs: A Mafia Story (BWWM) ON HOLD

VII

Spencer Addison

"Ok so we'll start in the east wing of the house, the. Move back through the kitchen to the west wing. Find anything that seems like it's linked to Gianni's past. God, I've always wanted to be a detective." I say as I scan the map. As me move through the kitchen I hear someone's stomach growl. I turn around to see that Yomi has stopped walking and is hovering over one of the chef's shoulders, I give her a death stare. " Sorry" She softly says while looking at the floor. " We don't have time for this now, we'll eat later." I say grabbing her arm and yanking her along. Once we make it to the east wing of the house, we come across a door made from stainless steel. " I wonder what's in there." I say I inching closer to the door. "Oh hell no we are not going in there. What if that's where he keeps his vicious guard dogs or...or where he keeps something weird like the heads of cats or his maids drain hair?" Bianca spouts with a troubled look on her face. I look T her and tilt my head, " Then I really need to go in there because not about to be in a relationship with someone who collects decapitated cat heads and drain hair as a hobby." I place my hand on the doorknob and twist, " it's unlocked." I push the door open. "Oh. My. God." I gloss as my jaw hits the floor. "What? What is it? Is it the axed cat heads?" Yomi asked. She and B peek over my shoulder. In unison both B and Yomi parry," Oh my god!" "I know
Right, it's... magnificent." In our speculation is a beautiful indoor pool.

There were what seemed to be Angels hanging from the ceiling. The room was painted a light yellow. I was captivated. " This is a beautiful pool room and I would love to swim in it,  but this isn't what we're looking for," Yomi and B had an honest look of sadness on their faces. "We can swim later, I promise." We exit the pool room and search the rest of the east wing as best we could, but we came up short.

" Welp looks like we couldn't find anything so...can we go swimming now?" Bianca pleads. " No." they both groan. " We still have the west wing to search, after that I promise we can swim until your hearts give." They agree and follow me back through the kitchen to the west wing of the house. The first thing we see is a larger than life sized portrait of Romina and Giovanni Marino.
" Who's that? That is a gorgeous lady." "They're his parents" I answer. As we near the picture I read out loud, " Don & Mina '88." His mother was so beautiful. She had big hazel doe eyes, long curly black hair, and a baby face. Looking at his father was like looking at a picture of Gianni himself, literally. The only difference was Giovanni had chocolate brown eyes instead of hazel eyes. "Don? His dads name was Giovanni..." I claim feeling puzzled. Bianca looks at me, "Maybe it's a nickname?" She suggests. " Yea, you're right." I shrug it off and keep walk. Everywhere we searched led to dead ends. The dining rooms, spare bedrooms, living rooms, family rooms, home theater... literally everywhere we looked we found nothin.

"Ok so now that we've searched the last bathroom, the only two rooms we haven't searched are Gianni's room and the Library." Yomi utters. "We're not searching Gianni's room... so let's head to the library." As we approach the library Yomi congers up a plan, "We should look for photo albums and books about their families history, with a house like this his ancestors have to have been some type of royalty. And who knows we'll probably find out what happened to their parents." Searching each shelf we pull out five photo albums and two books about Marino family history. We crack open one of the photo albums. "Awe look at Gianni and his sister, they look so cute." B says. They had to be to be at least 3 in the photo, he was so pale with rosie red cheeks. "Well,
he's not royalty but look here, it says Gianni's parents came over to America in 1987, a year before he and his sister were born." Yomi reads flipping through one of the history books. " Woah, I'll look for more stuff keep reading you guys." I walk over to the book shelf my boot clunking against the floor. As I scan the books I over look a slate grey book, I double back and read the words on the spine of the book. ' Segreti Marino .' I pull the book and the bookcase creeps open like a door, the opening is only big enough for a small mouse to fit through. I peep through the crack and see Gianni sitting at the end of a large table surrounded by men. I turn head to try and hear what they are saying. " Uh Spence I think you should see this..." Yomi calls out. " Shh" I retaliate and continue to listen in on the meeting. "So Don, what are we gonna do about Santo and his little 'empire' he's trying to build on our territory?" Why does Gianni have the same nickname as his dad? "Spence, you really need to see this." Yomi said once again. I shush her, continuing to listen, Gianni began speaking, "We make it a drought. Nothing is available unless it's coming from us. No guns, no snow, no problem." Guns? Snow...does he mean snow as in cocaine? "Spencer! Come look at this now!"
Yomi basically yells. "Okay! Okay! Keep your voice down!" I get up and walk over to her,"look at what it says here your boyfriends family came here to expand their ' brand' by sending the current 'Don' and his 'successor' to the states."
" What does Don mean?" I ask, B pulls her phone out of her pocket. " Siri what is the definition of 'Don'?" "Spencer I...I think your boyfriend is a mafioso." I instantly froze. " No, th-that isn't possible." B chimes in, " It says here that Don is a honorific tittle in the Italian mafia." This can not be happening. I am freaking the fuck out. I can't believe this shit. "It says here that his parents migrated from southern Italy, and his Father , Don Giovanni, became head of the the Marino mafia after his father died, so you know what that means right, your boyfriend isn't a mafioso... he's THE mafioso, he's the Don, it says here people will address him as Don Gianni." Yomi continued. I can not handle this right now, I got kicked out of my apartment, I broke my ankle, and now,
I have just found out my boyfriend
is a Italian mafia boss. Great. "Someone's coming!" Bianca says shooting up from her seat. All of the sudden the bookcase swings all the way open. Standing in the entryway is none other than Don Gianni himself.

"What are you doing in here?" He gives me a look. It was stoic. Draggy. Cold. I don't know why, but I just became very angry. I wanted to kick. His. Ass. But given the fact that that was nearly impossible, I settled for just giving him a tongue lashing. " We were just exploring the house. How was your meeting Mr.Marino? Or should I refer to you as Don Gianni you fucking asshole?" I didn't even give him the chance to retaliate, I instantly turn on my heels and walk out of the library as fast as I could in my boot, Bianca and Yomi closely following me. I really hope I don't know what I'm talking about because I can't take another letdown.