Page 76 of My Mafia King

And that’s where their power lies.

This is true in life, business, crime business, or for women like her. No matter how good you are at the game, you can swiftly get obliterated by someone who doesn’t even play that game.

I’ve had tons of people in my life, and many were women.

Most of the time, most of the people fear me.

It comes with the territory, the type of business I am in, and being at the top of the food chain.

So, I’m getting different flavors of submission from men and women.

And I’m not talking about the sexual aspect of it. I’m talking about people trying to please me and having a shtick when dealing with me so they can stay alive.

I have a strategy too, and it has become my second nature.

I can go from being friendly to being menacing and lethal at the drop of a hat.

I can end someone in a second. And to be clear, I’m not doing it for pleasure. I’m doing it out of necessity.

Some things need to be taken care of quickly because there is no room for errors in this business.

The rules and a certain type of conduct are the backbone of our existence.

Once there’s a glitch, things become a gamble, and loss is unacceptable.

We all know we are bound by those rules.

We, the made men who have taken omertà oaths.

Soldato.

Caporegime.

Underboss.

Boss.

It doesn’t matter who we are.

We can all get bullets in our heads.

We know that, accept that, and live with that.

We act in a certain way, our interactions dictated by the foreseeable consequences of our words and actions.

People living outside our world know that and approach us with great care. Most have fear and a visceral need to make things good so they can survive.

There is a certain fascination with us, too.

Maybe because we’re caught between life and death all the time, and living wildly like us is freeing as much as it’s intense.

Whatever it is, we expect certain things to be done a certain way and people deliver.

If they don’t, there are repercussions.

In that sense, we have a lot of power.

So when Carmina asked me to stay with her so she could fall asleep, she destroyed the usual dynamic I have with people.

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