“Three,” Vitelli stated angrily. I started to tempo, worrying on the pavement. “That’s the cargo you advised Donato about.” Vitelli jogged my memory. “The one you used as bait?—”

“I do know,” I interrupted him.

“Cassio, this implies…”

“I do know, Vitelli,” I snapped. “I fucking realize it.”

Just a few months in the past, I had given my underbosses a time and place the place our cargo could be taken from and transported to a brand new location to be distributed and offered. Every of them obtained distinctive data. As time had handed and no cargo had been stolen, I virtually forgot about it, however now…now I had my reply. Now I knew who the spy was, who the conniving little fox was. I had a intestine feeling and it by no means left me hanging, however even when I had suspected it, a betrayal was a betrayal, and I felt the blade in my again being twisted.

“What now?” Vitelli inquired.

“We’ll use the fox to catch Grigori.” I answered merely.

“And the way are you going to try this, Cassio?” He threw his fingers within the air.

I used to be fascinated about it. “We’ll need to tread fastidiously,” I stated. “Donato Manci can not suspect we’re on to him.”

“He fucking betrayed us,” Vitelli stated in disbelief. “All these years serving Father and you then, and he betrayed us.”

“He’s going to pay for what he’s finished,” I stated, my imaginative and prescient turning pink.

This was all I wanted to make him pay. All I wanted was a cause to place him six toes beneath. “Name Marie, I need her and Francesca out of Chicago as quickly as doable.”

Once I entered the restaurant once more, I mustn’t have hidden my feelings as a result of Romeo stated, “Hassle?”

“Certainly one of my males betrayed me,” I confessed. If we have been to be pals, and if this alliance was going to work, then I wanted to study to belief others.

Romeo’s blue eyes turned darkish. “You’ll be able to have as a lot of my males you want.”

“I admire it, however I’d quite take care of him by myself.”

A terrifying smile ghosted the Capo’s face. “Then I bid you good searching,” Romeo stated extending his hand. “I’ll have you ever escorted to your jet.”

“Thanks,” I stated and meant it.

“That’s what pals do,” he stated and though there was no emotion in his voice, I might inform he meant it.

Three hours later after I arrived at my house, Francesca was mendacity in mattress, her fingers tucked beneath her cheeks. She was so goddamned stunning it harm.

Gently, I tucked a number of strands of hair from her face. “Principessa.” I attempted to wake her up. “Love.” I kissed her cheek.

Francesca stirred and checked out me, her eyes have been red-rimmed. She had been crying. I understood what it was to lose somebody you really liked, and I needed I might take that ache away.

“It’s important to get up.” I smiled when she shook her head.

“I need to sleep.”

“Principessa, that is vital,” I stated making an attempt to maintain my nervousness at bay. I wanted her out of this metropolis as quick as doable.

If I used to be going to behave towards Donato, I wanted to make certain Francesca was okay. That she was protected.

“What’s it? Has one thing occurred?” She sat up, her again towards the headboard.

I took a deep breath. “Really, sure,” I admitted. Her blue eyes went broad. “Your father betrayed us.”

She was in shock for a number of seconds and stated nothing, I puzzled what was happening in her head. “Cassio,” she blanched. “Just a few weeks in the past, Marco got here to me with a number of photos of Donato and a few males. I feel they have been Russians.”

I sat again. “Why are you solely telling me now?” I snapped.

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