Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 96: dead men can’t tell secrets.. Gianna came awake with a gasp and a flush of pain. She jerked instinctively, sucking in a deep lungful of air, and then several more, eyes darting around the room.Oh, god.She was somewhere very bad.From across the room Clyde looked towards her, breaking off the conversation he’d been having with Hagrid. He said a few, soundless words to his companion, then began making his way to towards Gianna.Panic, in the meanwhile, was an overwhelming dagger to the gut, stabbing Gianna over and over as she looked from the dried blood on the floor of the room she was in, to the plain, gray cement walls and the flickering light above her.This was the torture chamber that Mariposa always joked about, knowing it existed in some form, but never having any hard proof.Because people who came into this room—this room that was cold like an ice house and probably several stories underground, didn’t come out. At least not breathin

Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 98: organized chaos .Gianna tried to give the most helpless, hapless shrug she’d ever managed in her life. “I know he’s one of my brother’s friends. I guess you’re telling me he’s a member of Mariposa right now, but I really didn’t know. I just thought he was some punk kid who thought his stupid nickname was clever. I put up with him for the sake of my brother. No other reason.”Without warning Maddox scooted forward to the front of his seat to peer at her. “What if I think you’re bullshitting me?”Gianna felt her heart give a stutter, but after that it was back on track, so she was able to breathe some kind of relief and answer, feeling faint, “Then I assume you’ll have your dogs drag me back to where I was before. And you’ll hurt me until I tell you a different story.”With a shrug, Maddox asked, “Don’t you think this is a good option for me? I let Clyde flex his more … eccentric interests, and I learn the truth. I shouldn’t have to tell you peo

Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 100: we go down together .Maybe Infinite would have always been there. No, Dante knew they would have. Infinite had been building for the better part of a decade. Dante knew enough about Maddox to know he’d been in the game a long time. Like Dante, Maddox had grown up in a rough part of town, barely scraping by, getting bullied and hassled and downright terrorized by the gangs in power. And then Maddox had pulled himself up, like Dante had. Maddox’s rise to power hadn’t been so different from Dante’s at all. In fact, there wasn’t much different about them at all, except for their modes of operation.So it was stupid to think that removing Gia from the equation, would have removed Infinite as well. Infinite had been on the cusp of true power before Gianna had even opened her clinic. Maddox had been making power moves ages before Dante had met Gianna.And inevitably, Dante had always know, right from the start, that leading a gang meant one thing

Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 102: Gia is Mariposa now . “For Gia, right?” Giovanni asked, staring hard at Dante. “We’re going in for Gia, right?”And not for Maddox. The second half of the question was left off, but implied all the same.Rio said hotly, “If I come across that bastard, I’m going to take a shot.”“You’re not alone,” Ezekiel interjected.“Of course,” Dante said, voice going rough. “If any of us has the chance to end this by cutting the head off the snake, take the shot. But this is about getting Gia out. Leave Axel and his men to gun for Maddox. If we get Gia out, then we can hit Maddox later, on our own terms, and without him dangling someone we love over our heads.”Jovani leaned back, unease on his face, and said, “There’s one thing I’m really worried about.” He looked to Sal. “The cops.”“They could be a problem,” Sal agreed.“They will be a problem,” Jovani corrected. “They’re not just in Infinite’s pocket. They’re owned by Infinite. There isn’t a cop on th

Helping Mr. Gang Leader . Chapter 104: infinite bastards .The moment she injected the morphine into herself, feeling the buzz of the drug kick in, chasing away the pain, she sighed in relief. It made her a little loopy, relaxing back against the bed in a useless kind of way, but she was so thankful to be free of the pain she’d felt constantly for a day, that it was worth it.And it was hard, so terribly hard, with how exhausted she was, and lonely and scared, but after that Gianna forced herself to sit up and keep going.In the other syringe she loaded a likely lethal dose of sedative. It was hard to tell though, even for a doctor, as Infinite employed various sized people. The dose she’d filled would kill someone like Donald, put someone like Clyde into a coma, and likely only knock out someone Hagrid’s size.She wasn’t looking to kill anyone, but if they sent Hagrid after her, Gianna couldn’t take the chance that a smaller dose would barely have any effect. Hagrid was strong, in