Mafia's Innocent Witness

Prologue There was complete silence, and it was eerie. Night life in the neighborhood of Granville was consistently the rowdiest. It wasn't the finest or safest neighborhood to live, in fact it has the largest crime rate in all of Bridgeport.Normally upon arriving at the bus stop there would be other destitute people lingering the street. Peppers, otherwise seen as the whorehouse of Granville, always have loud music thundering from the speakers. The sound of the music was so intense that the ground would rattle.Tonight was peculiar. The club was closed, and I was alone on the streets. Clutching my bag closer to my side, I increase my speed. There was an abandon building five minutes away where I lived. After what happened ten years ago I couldn't afford a decent apartment and the pay I get from Little Haven diner wasn't even enough to pay for my nursing course.I started a month ago at the Community College over in Bullard; it was ten minutes walk from the diner and

Chapter 2 I woke up with heavy breathing and sweat drenching my body. My dream of a handsome guy coming to steal my heart and treat me as if I was the only girl in the world was altered into a nightmare when Ace appeared and put a bullet through his head. I was sleeping on the floor of a public lavatory; I had nowhere else to go. The shelter a few blocks away did not have any room left. I didn't want to stay there anyway, especially when a perilous man was most likely searching for me. I check my watch to see that it was two minutes to four; it was time for me to wake up, anyway.I had to wake up every morning except Saturdays and Sundays in order to catch the bus in time to reach the diner for my six am shift, which ends at three. After that I have to make my way ten minutes away from where I work, by foot, to arrive at the community college in time for class.I remember when I was growing up I constantly told my papa that I could not wait to be grownup like him. He alway

Chapter 4It has been two weeks since my last encounter with Ace. I was still unaware of what the deal was with him, people seem to fear him. Sure he looked like a bad guy, but I'm the only one who saw him putting a bullet though a man's head. A man who turned out to be the Mafia. I thought there would be havoc in the city considering that he was dead. I thought that his men would be out for the blood of their leader's murder. If anything the entire city especially Granville was the calmest it have ever been in years.I walked the streets as if I wasn't a walking target. Today being Saturday means I have no class or shift at the dinner so I decided to see if I could find another job. I want to be able to save more inorder to continue school and I wanted a cheap apartment or at least to be able to stay at a motel for two nights. It would be better to sleep on a bed rather than road sides, park benches and random public restrooms. After what I witness I made sure I stayed away from aba

Chapter 6 The man was my father. Was I hearing right? The Mafia, the man who Ace killed was his father? Questions after questions took over my mind. Why would he kill his own father? Is he really that bad for killing a man who took the lives of thousands? Does this mean he is now the Mafia? Did the Captain know this? Is that the reason why everyone seem to fear him or do they just think of him as a troublemaker like Dorine had mentioned? No wonder he had so many bodyguards. "Joeniya breathe properly." I heard him say on the other line. Only then did I realized that I was breathing like I was going to have a panic attack. "The man deserved it, okay?" "Deserved it! He was your father how could you kill him?" I was angry, despite him being a bad person he was also the man who help conceived Ace only for him to put a bullet through his brain. I would give everything to see my Papa again. "You don't understand Joeniya, so don't start judging me. The man trafficked women, he tortured

Chapter 8 I didn't like the idea of Ace knowing so much about me. Only God knows how much he know. It terrified me, did he know everything that happened in my past? I felt like he had a book filled with information about me. Finger prints, birthday, favourite things. He probably even know where I can find the woman who gave birth to me. Ace and I stared at each for felt like an eternity. He was most likely waiting for me to prolong this conversation. I wanted to scold him, he can't just walk into my life and tell me what to do like that. It wasn't something I was used to. I always did things on my own without anyone, ever since dad died. "You should not have done that because I don't want it. I already accepted living with you, but what I did not accept is you offering to buy me new stuff." I condemn. "Do you know why? It's because I don't want your corrupt money to go towards anything that have to do with me. I don't know what you are involved in so I don't want anything