《UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD》全部章節：第 371 章 - 第 378 章

"The Covenant," Dimitri confirmed. "They're not just backing Dante, Mike. They're actively treating him. Providing experimental medical treatment that's accelerating his recovery beyond anything conventional medicine could achieve. They've invested in him. Seriously invested."Mike stood and began to pace, processing this."So Enzo was right," Mike said. "When you called him to investigate, when you asked him to confirm The Covenant's involvement, he found it.""Not just involvement," Dimitri said. "Direct, active, resource-intensive involvement. They're using pharmaceutical compounds that don't exist anywhere else. They're testing experimental healing technology on him. They've committed to making him a viable threat."Mike stopped pacing and looked directly at Dimitri."Then we kill him," Mike said simply. "We send someone, we take him out, we remove the asset they invested in. It's not elegant, but it's effective."Dimitri was quiet for a moment."You think that's the solution?" Di

Webb called at 4:33 AM."I found something," Webb said, his voice tight with the excitement of a journalist who'd stumbled onto real news. "Or rather, I found evidence of something. There are traces of a privately funded research organization that's been operating for at least fifteen years. They have government contracts. They have government protection. And they have funding from multiple sources including defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies.""What do they do?" Mike asked."That's the part that's classified," Marcus said. "But based on the funding levels, based on the contract language, based on the facilities they're operating from, my guess is biomedical research. Advanced biomedical research. The kind that might be considered unethical by civilian standards."Mike closed his eyes."The Covenant," Mike said."What?" Webb asked."Nothing. Keep investigating," Mike said, and hung up.****THIRTY-SIX HOURS INTO THE INVESTIGATION*Mike had compiled everything into a comp

"That's..." Enzo started, then stopped. "That's bigger than I thought.""Yes," Dimitri said. "Which is why we need your information more than ever. We need to understand what The Covenant is doing in Rome. We need to know if there are government officials there who are also involved. We need to know if this is a U.S. government operation or if it extends internationally.""I'll dig deeper," Enzo said. "But Dimitri, if government is involved at this level, if we're talking about federal agencies, then we need to be careful about how we respond. You can't fight the U.S. government the same way you fight organized crime.""I know," Dimitri said. "That's why we're not going to fight them directly. We're going to understand them first. We're going to map their operations, their assets, their vulnerabilities. And then we're going to figure out how to protect ourselves without triggering a response we can't survive.""And what about Dante in the meantime?" Enzo asked."Dante stays alive," Di

POV: DANTEThe morning sun was harsh on Dante's face as he stood on the terrace of his estate in Rome, looking out at the city spread below him like a kingdom he was about to reclaim.His legs were perfect now. No pain, he has complete mobility now . The experimental treatment The Covenant had provided had worked beyond anything he'd dared to hope for. The healing was complete. The recovery was absolute. And for the first time since the warehouse in New Jersey, Dante felt like himself again.He felt dangerous.He felt unstoppable.The memory of Salvatore came to him like it always did in moments of clarity. His brother, dead in a Rome alley because Dimitri Valentino had decided he wasn't worth preserving. Four months, and the wound hadn't closed. Four months, and Dante could still see his brother's face in those final moments, could still feel the rage of losing him, could still taste the hunger for revenge.Salvatore.And then there was Isabella.The obsession that had started as pol