I shake my head. “No. Ajello has been keeping his word and staying out of our business. Let’s keep it that way and focus on the Albanians for now. Unless someone here has another idea?”
There are some muted mutterings, but no one offers up other suggestions. As expected.
For over three years, I’ve been following Massimo’s guidance and minimizing any potential conflicts between our Family and our partners, as well as with our competitors. I can handle the business aspect of the Family, but I won’t be able to manage a Mafia war with another criminal organization. Cosa Nostra is strictly patriarchal. Getting capos to follow a woman’s directives is difficult, but as long as those orders bring in a lot of money, it’s doable. But if the war does break out, the capos will never allow me to make
