The Ghost

35. follow their lead

3rd person POV

The morning after the fight Mark walks into Galaxy's room to find her spooning Jace, petting his hair. He pulls his phone out and snaps a pic of them. She glances up with a frown, but moves her finger to her mouth in a shush motion. Mark nods and mouths, "We need to talk" before walking out the door again.

She goes back to petting Jace's hair for a little bit before shifting off the bed silently. He moves for a moment before settling back down to sleep. Then she makes her way out of the room like the ghost she is, and walks into Mark's bedroom looking for him. He isn't there so she looks in his office and he isn't there again.

She finally finds him in the backyard running, so she sits on the porch to watch him let his stress out. Eventually he notices her presence, so he runs over to where she's sitting.

When he stands there opening and closing his mouth like a fish, she raises an eyebrow at him. "What did we need to talk about Mark?" Her annoyance is obvious in her tone, thinking she could still be cuddling with her little brother.

He takes a calming breath, "We need to make a move on Jackson today. You've put him in a frenzy and he's talking about hiring assassins to kill you. A lot of his men are questioning his ability to lead the mafia."

Galaxy smirks, "Fucking finally, I've been waiting for him to snap. The man was hysterical when I left that night. I was expecting this a few days ago. I'm gonna need two days."

He nods his head, "What's the plan?"

"We're announcing you as the new don today and within a few hours Jackson will try to take you down. At that point he's going to lose the respect of all his men and dethroning him won't be a problem anymore. Because of his rage we will stay tomorrow to cement his insanity with the mafia, then move to one of my bases where we will keep control over it." Galaxy says matter-of-factly.

After he returns from cleaning up, the pair heads to the base, a separate mansion solely for members relying on the mafia for everything. When they get there all of the men stare at Galaxy because it is their first time seeing the mafia princess, but the typical big brother glare from Mark makes them all turn away.

Restlessly Mark calls all of the men into the auditorium. Once everyone has gathered, the men ogle her while her fingers keep twitching towards the dagger in her waistband. Mark notices this, but doesn't address it till everyone has gathered and shut up. "We have 3 points of business today. One, if you don't stop looking at my little sister like a piece of meat I will allow her to pull out that dagger she's been itching to throw and cut off each and everyone of your dicks to feed to you."

Galaxy grins pulling the dagger out tossing it in the air to catch. She looks several of the men in their eyes and each one flinches back lowering their eyes in submission. When their full attention is focused on her, she makes her own announcement, "Second, anyone within this room who takes part in Jackson," she spits as she says his name, "trying to kill me, will be dealt with unimaginable pain not only for themselves but for everyone who has ever been involved with you."

Mark looks at her proudly as the men cower at her words, "And for our final piece of business, Jackson has finally decided to hand everything over to me. Now you may be wondering why he isn't here announcing this himself, well it's simple he has crossed boundaries that should never be crossed when it comes to family, especially our princess here." Galaxy grimaces at the mention of Jackson's problems.

She looks between him and the crowd, raising an eyebrow for permission, "My "father"" she says with disdain obvious in her voice, "is trying to kill me, but he is too weak to do it himself, so he has sent out a request to assassins asking them to kill me. They have all chosen to refuse his request because, as they should, they all fear me. You should follow their lead."

When she finishes Mark continues on, "I refuse to accept anyone disrespecting my family even within my family. If I hear of anyone talking like this again I will not hesitate to turn them over to the last ever graduating class of the Assassins School for Girls, the ones who ended it forever, for target practice."

Galaxy giggles at that, "Oh my sisters would love to practice some new torture techniques on them, and there's one I've been dying to try. Well, actually the last person I practiced it on died so maybe it's more accurate to say they're dying for me to try."

Mark looks at her smirking, "Oh I have no doubt at least 10 people will be yours by the end of the week don't worry." Then he turns back to the crowd, "I will be meeting with each leader soon to discuss the changes we'll be implementing. Dismissed."

His men and women all stand to leave when Jackson comes barging in, "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?"

"OH perfect timing Jackson!" Galaxy yells happily. "We just announced your big decision!" When he looks at her confused for a moment she continues, "Oh not the one where you were looking for an assassin to kill me. Well we did tell them about it, but that wasn't the major announcement. No, the announcement was you giving Mark here the position of Don."

The look of anger on Jackson's face was priceless. He was as red as a tomato, but not about Mark being Don. He was mad that she had found out his plans to kill her. "And what was that about me killing you my dear?"

Mark laughs at his sperm donor's words, "Oh you can try to deny it all you want, but when you decided that you should have your men calling assassins to kill the Ghost here, you should have remembered that after what she did, she controls the entire society assassins, especially the former students of that school. You should have been more careful who called and who you called."

The members watch this exchange curious if there will be a power struggle or if Jackson will hand over the mafia that easily. So when Jackson merely huffs and storms away, they are completely shocked.

The siblings smirk at each other. After all that they revealed about him at this meeting, no one will even bat an eye when he is kicked out of the family. Of course they are going to force him to slip up in front of enough of the mafia that if he wasn't booted out, they all would have done their best to push him out themselves. With their plan set the siblings start their takeover, and begin preparations for leaving their birth giver's mansion