Page 21 of Inherting the Mafia

"Okay, my people will be there soon."

"Thank you." I hung up, ordered Mateo to make sure everyone stayed away from the airplane, and then walked over to join Tony. "Vinnie is sending someone to disarm the bomb."

"I gathered from your conversation that we're not calling the cops?"

"Not a good idea," I said. "There would be too many questions."

"Oh, there are still going to be questions." Tony stood up and started pacing again. "How did someone know I was going to be on that plane? And when did they have time to put it in place? Isn't this hangar guarded?"

"Maybe," I said, "but I'm pretty sure they have surveillance. They might have caught something on camera that can give us a clue as to who is after you."

Tony glanced toward the office where everyone was waiting. "Do you trust everyone here?"

"I do," I said without hesitation. "I vetted them and trained them myself."

"Then let's go check out the video surveillance and see if your trust in them was well placed or not."

I nodded and started walking toward the office. I wasn't sure the manager would share the video willingly, but he would share it. I probably just needed to slip him a little money to get him to cooperate.

These guys got paid crap.

When we reached the office, I told Mateo to wait for Vinnie's men and then went to find the manager. Tony was right on my heels as I went to negotiate with the manager.

Surprisingly, it only took a hundred dollars to get the guy to agree to let us watch the video recording. I shoved everyone out of the room except for Tony and Boris and then sat down in the chair in front of the monitor to start watching the video.

"If you see anything, call it out."

I quickly rewound the video to where the jet had entered the hangar and then slowly hit play and watched right up until everyone came off the airplane just a few minutes ago.

I didn't see a damn thing.

I rewound the video, going back to the beginning again and then watched it again. I still didn't see anything. No one went near the plane except the fuel guy, but he never entered the plane. The pilot got off the plane and went into the office, but he was back less than ten minutes later.

Nothing unusual there.

"I didn't see anything." I glanced over my shoulder to Tony and Boris. "Did either of you?"

My heart sank when they both shook their heads.

"Is there any way that someone could have put the bomb on the plane before you all left Italy?" Tony asked.

I didn't see how, but that actually made sense considering the last bomb had initiated there.

"It's possible I suppose." I'd know more once the bomb was disabled and I could get a look at it. Right now, I didn't want anyone going onto the plane in case it exploded. We'd already lost too many people. I didn't want to lose more.

"Who had access to the plane back in Italy?"

I shook my head. "I'll have to have Carmine look into it. I know there is surveillance there. It's our hangar. If there's something there, he'll find it."

"Can you call him?"

"I'll do that right now," I said as I stood. "Why don't you go out and wait for Vinnie's men?"

Tony nodded and walked out of the room.

I dialed my Uncle Carmine and then waited for him to answer. "Hey, this is Vito. There's a problem here."

"What happened?" Carmine asked.

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