All Chapters of Crowned in Carnage: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter Eleven - Broken Trust

They took Leonardo to a safe house on the edge of the city. It was a place Damien’s men controlled, somewhere they could keep Leonardo alive long enough to get everything he knew. During the drive, Elena couldn’t stop thinking about what he had said. Vincent Cross had planned everything. Her father’s murder. The attacks on her estate. Even her marriage to Damien. All of it traced back to one man she had met only once, at her own wedding. The thought that they had been following Vincent’s plan the entire time made her feel sick.Marco was hurt badly, but he refused to go to a hospital. He said hospitals meant questions, police reports, and attention they could not afford. Instead, they brought him back to the penthouse. Damien kept a private doctor on call, one who never asked questions. Elena stayed with Marco while the doctor worked on him. She kept apologizing for putting him in danger until Marco finally told her to stop. He reminded her that he had pledged loyalty to her father th

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Chapter Twelve: Escalation

Elena entered the penthouse at four in the morning and immediately saw Damien pacing the living room with his phone pressed to his ear. Anger clung to him like heat rolling off fire. When he noticed her, his expression shifted, relief flashing through the fury. He ended the call and told her Vincent’s men had hit the safe house with military precision, using information they should never have had. That meant there was still a leak inside their organization, someone feeding Vincent every move they made.Marco was awake despite the pain medication. He sat on the couch, pale but alert, his posture tight with focus. He said they had to assume Vincent knew everything now, including the documents Richard had handed over and the plan to form a coalition against him. Elena felt exhaustion pressing down on her, but she forced herself to stay present. If she fell apart now, Tony and the others would have died for nothing, and she refused to let that be the case.She told them about Tony’s death

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Chapter Thirteen: Going on Offense

They spent the rest of the morning planning how to strike back at Vincent. Marco pulled up files on his tablet that showed Cross family businesses and hidden operations. Elena was surprised by how much information her father had gathered over the years about people he once called allies. Antonio had been careful. He believed that knowing everyone’s secrets could save lives one day.The files listed Vincent’s legal businesses alongside his illegal ones. There were notes, numbers, and timelines. Marco explained that Antonio never trusted anyone fully, no matter how close they seemed. He always prepared for the worst.Damien studied the files quietly. Elena watched his face, trying to read what he was thinking. Seeing his father’s empire laid out like a list of targets had to feel strange. After a while, Damien spoke. He said they should start with Vincent’s casino because it brought in the most money and employed the most people. If they took it down, it would hurt Vincent badly and prov

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Chapter Fourteen: The Commission

The three days leading up to the commission meeting passed quickly, yet each hour felt heavy. Elena barely slept as they worked nonstop, going over the files Catherine had given them again and again. They were trying to understand what was missing and how to work around it. Damien had his tech team combing through every document, searching for traces of where the most damaging information might be stored. At the same time, Marco carefully contacted people from the other families, testing the waters and trying to sense where their loyalties might fall.Vincent’s phone call stayed in Elena’s mind. She replayed his words over and over, searching for meaning. He had warned them that the evidence was incomplete, and that alone felt like a move in a larger game. She asked Damien why his father would give them such a warning instead of letting them fail in public. Damien said Vincent enjoyed getting inside people’s heads. Fear and doubt were tools to him, and he liked using them before the r

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Chapter Fifteen: Running Out of Options

Elena stared at the text message as her chest tightened, a cold weight settling deep in her stomach. It meant Vincent had found them again. Somehow, despite every precaution they had taken, he was still one step ahead. It meant nowhere in the city was safe anymore.Damien was already on the phone, his voice low and sharp as he told the driver to change course. The car swerved, tires hissing against wet pavement as they turned away from the planned route. Marco lay stretched across the back seat, blood soaking into the leather beneath him. Elena pressed hard against the wound in his leg, her hands slick and trembling as she tried to slow the bleeding while her mind raced.How did Vincent keep doing this?Damien ended the call and leaned forward. “We’re not going to the safe house,” he said. “Take us to the docks.”Elena looked up. “The docks?”“We’re getting on a boat,” Damien said. “We’re leaving the city. Staying here means we die.”Her heart pounded harder. “Where could we possibly

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Chapter Sixteen: Inside Enemy Territory

The guard studied Elena’s fake credentials for what felt like forever. She kept her breathing slow and her face calm, like this was something she did every day. Damien’s voice whispered in her earpiece, so quiet she almost imagined it, telling her to stay calm. She fought the urge to touch the wire under her shirt. One wrong move would expose her.At last, the guard handed the papers back and waved her through. He said the main floor needed cleaning because of a spill earlier. Elena nodded, grabbed her cleaning cart, and walked into the warehouse, forcing herself not to look around too carefully.The space was large and mostly empty. Shipping containers were stacked along one wall. An office area sat in the far corner. Elena counted at least four guards stationed around the perimeter.She started cleaning near the entrance to sell her cover. While she worked, she watched the office area. She could see shadows moving behind the frosted glass windows. Without moving her lips, she whispe

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Chapter Seventeen: The Emergency Meeting

Getting the other family bosses to agree to an emergency commission meeting took every favor Marco had earned over thirty years. Even then, most of them only agreed because of one thing: explosive testimony about Vincent Cross.The meeting was set for the next evening at a neutral warehouse chosen by all the families. Security would be handled by rotating teams from each family so no one group could control the space.The day before the meeting, Elena spent hours rehearsing with Leonardo. She needed his testimony to be clear and impossible to dismiss. Once Leonardo understood they truly intended to protect him from Vincent, he became cooperative.He explained again how Vincent had approached him five years earlier with a plan to slowly remove the other family heads and divide their territory. He described how Antonio Russo had uncovered the theft operation and how Vincent had ordered Antonio’s death to keep the truth buried.Damien focused on security. Vincent would try something, bef

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Chapter Eighteen: The Hunt Begins

Elena spent the next three days carefully going through every piece of information they had on Vincent Cross while barely sleeping or eating, and Damien watched her with growing worry but didn’t try to stop her because he understood what she was doing. She was turning her grief and anger into something useful instead of letting it destroy her, and if finding Vincent was what kept her from falling apart then he would help her do it.Marco had his people tracking every property Vincent owned and every associate he might turn to for help, and they had already checked a dozen locations only to find them either abandoned or filled with people who honestly didn’t know where Vincent had gone. Elena believed Vincent had planned for this situation years ago and had escape routes and safe houses that nobody knew about, and finding him would mean thinking like someone who had spent forty years staying ahead of his enemies.She asked Damien where he would hide if he were Vincent and had unlimited

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Chapter Nineteen: Race Against Time

They had no more than six hours before the FBI raids began.Vincent had made sure of that.As the car sped back toward the city, Elena stared out the window and tried to think through the impossible. The FBI had real evidence. Not rumors. Not guesses. Solid proof. Once federal agents moved, they didn’t stop. There was no bribing them. No scaring them off.Damien spent the entire drive on his phone, calling anyone who might have influence with the FBI or the Justice Department. His voice stayed calm, but Elena could hear the strain beneath it. Marco worked just as hard, reaching out to the other families and warning them that everything was about to come crashing down.What made it worse was how careful Vincent had been.After his death, they’d searched his computer and found exactly how far he’d gone. He hadn’t sent the files to just one FBI office. He’d sent them to several. Names. Dates. Locations. Financial records. Informants. He had even sent copies to the media, just in case the

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Chapter Twenty: New Vulnerabilities

Elena spent the first week after finding out she was pregnant acting as if nothing had changed, even while her body told a different story. The nausea did not limit itself to mornings, and the exhaustion was so heavy she struggled to stay awake past eight each night. She told no one except Damien, because admitting the pregnancy meant admitting weakness, and weakness in their world was dangerous.Damien watched her closely, more protective than usual. Normally it would have annoyed her, but this time it felt gentle. He kept urging her to slow down, to rest, to let others handle things when commission meetings and FBI briefings filled her schedule. Elena insisted she could not afford to appear weak while power was still settling after Vincent’s death. Damien replied that nobody would think she was weak for being human occasionally.Marco realized the truth without being told. When Elena excused herself from the same meeting three times in one hour to be sick, he waited until she return

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