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Chapter Fifty three
When Amore touched down Madrid, he was cold. The weather in Spain was much colder than he had it in New York and so, one of his escort pulled off his jacket and wore it on his boss. His ride was already waiting at the airport.
“Greetings sir, it is a pleasure seeing you for the first time” the man who Amore eventually found out was Sanchez said, shaking his hands firmly. He got into the car and they sped off away from the airport.
As they moved along the road, Amore could not help but admire the beauty of Spain’s capital. The last time he was here, things hadn’t quite changed until this moment.
“Where are we headed to” He suddenly asked as Sanchez who sat down beside him as they moved.
“To Plaza Mayor sir” Amore had heard of the place only once and he was told that it was a main square.
“Isn’t the place supposed to be a main square where people come for soght seeing” He aired out his mind.
“Yes sir. But once the convention is almost a week to starting, we make a pact with the Spanish government to order a total lockdown of the place. As you know, they don’t need to know more see our faces” From his peripheral vision, Amore noticed the smirk on his face.
They arrived at the designated location. Amore was amazed by the size of the building, it was even more beautiful considering how the night lights embraced it’s interior.
“This way sir” Sanchez said leading him into the building itself.
“Beside Plaza mayor happened to be a huge hotel which was constructed by my grand father and it would be hosting every leader”. Once they arrived at the hotel which happened to be just close by the plaza mayor, Amore was rather surprised about how it’s structure was almost similar to the Plaza Mayor.
“You can easily take up a befitting room Sir, I would have a private receptionist attend to you soon” Sanchez indicated and left
When Amore entered the building, he noticed series of people walking briskly and he instructed one of his escort to meet up with the receptionist.
While he waited for sometime, he decided to FaceTime Bianca who he believed would probably be sleeping.
“Hey babe” He said once the image of a sleepy Bianca appeared on his screen.
“Did I woke you up” he said with a smile seeing how Bianca held a grumpy face on. Even with the pregnancy situation, Amore had to admit that she was just too beautiful.
“How was your trip” Bianca said yawning in the process and rubbing his face.
“Went well, take a look at this place” He held out his phone, showing her the entire structure of the hotel.
“This is where I would be lodging for the convention” His escort had gotten the key while the other grabbed his luggage and they moved towards the designated room.
“The place looks beautiful” She said still with the grumpy voice.
“You know what, let me leave you to catch up with some sleep, good night babe” he said before she could switch off the FaceTime.
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Later that night, Amore decided to go downstairs; Sanchez had informed him on the phone that there was a swimming pool amd he needed to just enjoy the night bliss alone. Changing into his swimming pants, he had his googles on. While he was at the hall, he noticed how some of the receptionists looked at him amd he was particularly interested in one. She was petite and from her facials, Amore knew she was certainly Latino.
Once he reached the swimming pool, he pulled off his robe and hand it over to his body guard. He had instructed one of them to get him a bottle of beer and a blunt too. He did into the water and stretched his arms and his legs apart and swayed along the water.
After few minutes of swimming, he decided to stay at the corner of the swimming pool. He made the gesture to his bodyguard who handed him a glass of beer and he gulped the content immediately.
While he was puffing his smoke into the air, he noticed movements and turned around to see someone who was almost the same age with him approach the swimming pool. From the bodyguard the followed him, Amore could deduce that he was certainly a Mafia leader. He held up Amore’s gaze and approached him. Amore noticed the tattoo on his left arm which was a picture of a rose.
“Marco Amore” Amore’s bodyguard brought out their guns amd aimed it at the man whose escort also reacted immediately with their own held out.
“Its rather surprising seeing you here” The man spoke, puffing the smoke on his face. Amore was amazed by his audacity. There was certainly no Mafia leader who would dare this.
“I know you might be wondering, who is this dude” He indicated inhaling another smoke and puffing it out on Amore’s face.
“Well, let me give you a clue amigos; Russia, tax, war, warehouse shutdown” Amore’s eye widened in surprise knowing what he was referring to
“I happened to be Shrevolsky’s estranged son; Lemar Shrevolsky” Amore smirked at him, swam to the other edge of the pool and got out, putting on his robe, he approached him.
“How does your father’s death feels?” Amore asked “I know you must have cried your ass out like a teenager” Amore could see the rage on his face.
“You will not speak ill of my father” Lemar threatened as more guns cocked up at Amore’s face.
“Didn’t your father teach you some manners? I see you are nothing but a spoilt brat who knows nothing of the underworld business. I will say this and I will say it once, I will have my revenge for what you did to our warehouse” Amore stared down at him for some minutes before shuffling him with his shoulder while heading inside the hotel.
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The day of the convention had arrived and Amore was rather surprised to see several men; he never knew the underworld was an entirety of world on its own, judging from the sea of heads packed in the same hall. Everyone was chattering amongst themselves but the moment he stepped his foot into the hall, there was a minute silence as everyone stared at him.
“Marco Amore, leader of the Elite family” They announced as he was ushered into the big table at the centre of the hall. Before he sat down, other leaders of various Cartel and syndicates, shook hands with him. Amore noticed various reactions that he was given; while some were jealousy, others were hate.
“Attention everyone” He turned to see Sanchez already gracing the podium.
“I welcome you all to this annual convention. It is a much delight to be the chairman of this year’s convention. Now before I proceed, I will like everyone to know that the days of holding grudges against one another is over. I need every leader here to embrace peace as we grace this event today” Suddenly, the door burst opened and the leader of the SKULL gangstar burst into the room with his gang members behind him.
Amore noticed they were headed directly to his table this, his own escort came to his view by standing at his front.
“Step aside fools” the leader of the gang spoke as he eyed up Amore’s escort.
“Uhmmm…. Tevez, I do hope you understand that this is a convention?” Sanchez indicated staring down at the leader of the skull gang from the podium.
“Shut the fuck up and stay out of my business. I have scores to settle with this coward” Amore was pissed that he was called a Coward.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
“You have the guts to call me a Coward?” Amore said, urging his escorts to step aside so he could see the man.
“What else are you? That is the more reason Marco Amore your brother would still earn my respect today; he was never some sort of pussy like you” Amore swiftly brought out the gun from one of his men’s body and aimed it at Tevez.
“I see you want to shoot me. Go ahead, shoot me and I will raise hell in this place. Everyone of you seated will also feel the heat” As Tevez mentioned it, every leader’s escort had their own gun aimed at the Skull gang.
“Tevez, I suggest you leave this place…..” Before Sanchez could finish his sentence, he was dropped dead by a bullet.
The killing of Sanchez caused chaos and pandemonium as every squas opened fire. Amore was covered by one of his men who also shot at anyone who had their target on his boss.
“Tell Scorpion to get the car ready, we headed back to the airport immediately” Amore instructed as headed up to his room to gather his luggages and head towards the car. The sound of gun. Continued to rain in the air. He had collected a short gun from one of his men for defense.