Kudos of Mafia

Prologue

"Daddy! Will, I ever see you again?", a four-year-old boy with chubby red cheeks and captivatingly beautiful emerald eyes, clenched the lower boundary of the gray-white t-shirt, Salvo was wearing. "Cause they say you are being taken to never-land, and won't ever come back."

"Oh my little charm, Olivio! You know your daddy loves you more than the jelly bean candy you love.", a husky voice fluttered in the dusty air of lockup.

The rusty bars that caged Salvo inside was about to lose the battle it fought. Salvo won the battle. He got the freedom, freedom from the bars and chains. Salvo was a free soul now but it wouldn't be easy to make understand his son what a free soul actually is. The clock was ticking. Time felt so precious. Salvo would even trade it with the breathe he was taking at the moment.

The jailer waved the hand from beyond the bars hinting it was the time.

"Daddy where are these people taking you? Tell me, otherwise I am gonna tell mamma you left me alone knowing how I hate to sleep alone. You said she has her eyes on me and would grant me any wish I will make.", tears started dribbling down the chubby cheeks of Olivio.

"Olivio, do you think daddy will leave you alone? No, never ever my boy! Daddy will be back shortly. I promised to bring jelly bean candy, lots of them.", Salvo gently wiped the tears of his son with his t-shirt. "But only under one condition; promise me you will be a good boy while I am away."

"I promise you, daddy, I will be the best boy in this whole Palermo.", Olivio smiled with those cheeks struggling to dig a hole for a dimple.

Salvo gave a tight hug to Olivio. A hug he was going to miss forever.

The jailer handcuffed Salvo and held his shoulder blade taking him out of the cell. Salvo was approaching his death.

"I love you, daddy....", Olivio screamed echoing the whole prison." Don't forget those jelly bean candies!"

"Love you too, my boy. I will bring it.", Salvo continued his walk to death with tears. Tears of fear and agony.

Salvo doesn't remember those tears accompanying him since the last time when he sat beside her wife in her death bed. She died of a car accident two years back.

How a four-year-old boy would know that it would be the last time he would have a glimpse of his father. 
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The story rolled up from a son who believed his father would return one day. It all began in a beautiful country, Sicily and a stunning town, Palermo.

Though widely known as an autonomous region of Italy, Sicily has its own coherent identity and lifestyle enriched by Greek ruins, Mt. Etna, Norman castles, Neoclassical theaters, seafood, street foods, and...The Mafia? The word 'Mafia' gets the most of the attention of the people, particularly when Sicily arrives in the conversation. 

The Sicilian Mafia was one of the predominant association of criminal groups that led to bloodshed and a series of chaos in Sicily. After the Sicilian Mafia was grounded, there appeared a new nightmare called 'The Red Mafia'. 

The history of The Red Mafia dates back after the time when Salvo, one of the owners of the fishing company in Palermo was sentenced to death by the Sicilian government in charge of involvement with the Sicilian Mafia. Stefano, the leader of Red Mafia believed that he was illuded by the Sicilian government with the help of the people.

 And the questions start to crumble into pieces asking why was Salvo sentenced to death? It was believed that the fishing industry of Salvo started to climb the height of success and Salvo, being one of the richest men in Sicily was funding the Sicilian Mafia.

Every story has two sides and Stefano had his own. Stefano believed that the Sicilian government and it's people were not pleased to see the progress made by an Italian American(Salvo) and were nosy about the fact that the national currency was widely being transferred into America as Salvo had his major businesses in America. It was hard to accept the untold truth and this led to the rise of the Red Mafia which since then converted Sicily into a coffin.

 Stefano led his revolt and his cousins Marcus and Mancuso supported the cause of Stefano. Saverina, an unknown face too joined the cause.

 A son who had a glimpse of his father when he was four wouldn't take it easy. Olivio was thirsty for blood and it changed him to Stefano who had no interest in jelly bean candy anymore.

The Red Mafia was the burning issue for the Sicilian government. Murders and raids were increasing at an alarming rate. The audacity for a better tomorrow had just sunken in a void sea.

What was going to be next ????

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