Alessandra's world fell apart when her sister Raffaella committed suicide rather than marry the son of a powerful mafia family. When they tried to make her marry him instead, she told them, "You marry me to Vittorio, he'll be dead in the morning, I promise."

When Vittorio Benedetti heard those words, he turned and told his father, "Forget it, they're not that important. I don't even want to marry the bitch, she's ugly."

Gianni Morandi had been gun running and heavily involved in the drug trade, but one of his lieutenants had turned on him and diverted the profits and Gianni had come up short for his payment to the powerful Carlo Benedetti. He had offered his daughter as a bride to Carlo's favorite son, Vittorio, but Raffaella had refused him. When he told her she would marry him whether she wanted to or not, Raffaella had said nothing, but the next morning he had found her dead in her bed, a bullet through her head.

Now Alessandra was not only not cooperating, she had threatened both Carlo and Vittorio. She was  stronger willed than her sister, and he was sure that she had meant every word that she said. She was beautiful, brilliant, and cold blooded, and he had no doubt that she meant what she said.

"Do you know what you did to me just now, you've declared war on the family, he lamented.

"Good," she said, "Because I am going to kill them to avenge Raffaella's death. You had better be careful, Father, I might kill you, too, after all, it's because of you my sister is dead."

I don't know why I wrote this, most mafia stories are stupid, maybe to point out they are writing stories that glorify evil people?