The Starlight Club: The Starlight Club (Mystery Mob Series Book 1) by Joe Corso

Author:Joe Corso [Corso, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Best New Fiction 2014
Published: 2014-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Shortly after midnight, Yip locked away his personal items, cash, receipts, and closed the lights of the Corona Gentleman’s club. He met Jerry and Richie Pigeons by the bar and all three began to head out toward their cars. Before leaving the club the two men performed their daily routine. They checked the street in front of the club to see if it was safe to leave. They didn’t see anything suspicious. It was a nice New York night for a walk and Yip’s car was just a short distance away, parked in a lot around the corner from the club. The streets were quiet, just a few stragglers coming home from the movies or a bar. Sometimes Yip couldn’t help feeling a tinge of jealousy as he watched a couple strolling hand in hand - probably going home where they’ll lock the door behind them and make love - the normal things that most people do - things he was missing from his life. His life was not his own. His life belonged to his business and his business dealings. Deep inside, he knew that he would never have the satisfaction of coming home to the love of a woman. He had been married once, for a short while, but she couldn’t handle his life and the closest he ever came to having a kid of his own was Red - his sister’s kid. He loved Red like his own. He had practically raised him after his father was killed on the east side docks. Those docks were now unused, rusting columns of steel, Frankenstein piers he called them, because they looked like they belonged in a horror movie. Red was loyal, smart, and had guts. He would take over Yip’s operation. Yip felt he was ready now. He had set it all up. He, “it,” was ready for Red. Everything was in motion. There were multiple savings accounts in different banks and a hidden safe in his apartment in Jackson Heights.

Yip’s family arrived from Sicily at the turn of the century. His mother had kept in touch with her family and friends in the old country. When any of them decided to move to America, she always found a way to find them a home, one that was move in ready once they arrived. She always used her resources and found the men jobs according to their skills. Yip’s mother was quite the woman and he loved her. His father, well he was another story. Each of his parents had taught him the importance of being a man of honor. They had instilled honesty and loyalty into their only son. But Yip wasn’t brought up in normal times. He had grown up in a melting pot of New York’s various cultures and he had grown up fighting for everything in his life. Fighting bullies in school was routine because his parents, being immigrants, couldn’t fight for him. Immigrants couldn’t risk the attention that it would bring them. Yip’s father would simply say, “Fight ‘em.

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