Chapter 17

Mafia. I had asked Alex for a laptop and he gave me one, not knowing what I wanted to do with it. I had searched for the term. I was finally getting answers, so I thought. Multiple hits came up. I thanked Evelyn silently in my mind for teaching me how to effectively use the internet.

Although I knew I still had not mastered it, I knew now better how to use certain sites, like Google.

I looked at the hits. The first hits were mostly about a game called Mafia, but I knew that was not what Alex and Edric meant with mafia. They talked about The Business and that meant a kind of organization.

So, I looked further.

Then, I stumbled on some hits about definitions. I read them and what I read; I could not believe it. They said the term mafia referred to a criminal organization that had its own culture, politics, and economy. This organization did business in different areas like gambling, drug trafficki