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Montana Roundtable March
Category: Stories
The official 'state of the union or whatever you want to call it', in Tony's words was an old style meeting to address the current standing of where the Montana Organization stood in terms of operation and current business.
The meeting took place in his office at home on the opposite side of the room, away from the desk. Two large black leather chairs were arranged for himself and Venus to sit and discuss. Venus sat on the right side while Tony took the chair to the left. An ashtray for a cigar was on the little table next to his, while Venus had a glass of wine.
Venus had quickly risen to an important position within the Montana organization. Tony found her in the Bahamas. What happened there had quickly become an afterthought, as she was now his partner in running the business. She was far more than his lover by this point in their relationship.
Standing in the room was a tall, muscular built man. His tattooed body was hidden thanks to a suit he wore for this meeting. Any other time when people saw Tino, he wore muscle shirts to reveal his many prison tattoos and artwork for gang affiliations. Tino was considered oldschool by street code. He was not a made man, but had proven himself years in the past as a reliable hired man on the street. That was before he went to prison on a coke charge. Tino kept quiet while he served his time and that respect had to be repaid now.
"This day's been a long time coming. Finally a free man, no longer stuck in a cage."
"You got that right, man." Tino laughed after Tony's remark. Tony gestured with his hand for him to lean closer. Venus watched as Tony pulled out a wad of cash from inside his jacket and handed it back to the newly free man.
"That's two thousand dollars to get started on the street. Do whatever you want with that money, but know that tomorrow morning, you've got a job. I want you to find Venus' salon. You go there and watch over things for her. You got it?"
Tino nodded. "Yes, I got it, thank you Tony." His eyes turned to Venus, who was his true boss now. Tony had promised her he would give her someone reliable to beef up security at the salon and help run her new business.
"Tomorrow morning at 6 AM, don't be a minute late." Venus gave him his first order before the man quietly left the room, leaving the boss and underboss alone now to discuss the rest of their business together.
"Alright, Tino works under you now. Next up, I need to call that kid Luis. He's gonna be our driver. I owed him a job and it's time to give it to him." Luis was the son of Diego Garcia, a legendary figure before Tony's era. There were many stories of Diego running a nightclub and hotel from the seventies in the beginning of the cocaine boom. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack shortly after Tony met him. His son had the lifestyle of a prince that had been torn away and replaced with hardships his father had fought to overcome for a comfortable life. Other people in town had made empty promises to the young man, so Tony had a point to prove by giving him a job.
"I'm working in that girl Leah I found off the street. I told her to come back and I'd give her a job. She's stuck around the salon so far." Venus crossed her legs after speaking.
"That sounds good. See what she's made of. Give her a test and see how she does." Leah was some poor girl that Venus found on the street a few weeks ago. She offered her a job, to keep the girl from starving to death. Since then, Venus could not keep her away from the salon. There was potential in her, if she could be a righthand woman. It was now on Venus to test if Leah had a trigger finger in her, and only then would she be worthy of meeting the boss himself.
"So you've got Tino, Leah and then your girls helping around there. That's Charlotte and Maria with jobs." Venus nodded at his words before she replied. "Yes, but I think they need a place of their own. Like a big house or something."
"Don't worry about that, baby. I know just the place. I need to pay a visit to the Sunburst Hotel. I think it could use some new management."
Venus sat back and relaxed. Her end of the business was taken care of. The organization was still small in this rebuild status, leaving Tony's side to be the one that needed to be addressed now.
"Once we get the hotel, we need to finally unload those 20 keys of yeyo we've been sitting on since we met in the Bahamas. We're gonna need to spend some money soon."
And with that, a new list of objectives for business was made: •Acquire the Sunburst Hotel. •Find a trade partner to sell 20 keys of cocaine. •Leah must 'make her bones' in a grand display of loyalty.
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