Chapter 8

CHAPTER 8: Sweet but Psycho

I wanted to see what I would be up against.

"The nerve of this man to rat us out to the authorities." Adriano was clearly upset.

"I-I didn't d-do..."

"Who told you to speak, fucker?" Adriano slapped him and wiped the blood off his palm. That must have hurt. I grimaced.

"Did you or did you not leak the warehouse's location?"

"I-I."

"I hate liars, Rico. I really do. I saved your family, gave you my undying protection, let you off with your debts, and the only thing you could do to me was rat me out?"

The man shook his head violently.

Must be hard for him, I thought.

I had dealt with men like him in the past, men who would lie till they die. Telling the truth should at least redeem them somehow at their last breath, but some things can't be helped...some things have to go to the grave.

One of Adriano's warehouses in Sicily was raided. From their conversation and the file that Adriano threw on the floor before he brutally hit Rico, I gathered that the