Semua Bab THE MAFIA'S BLOODY POSSESSION: Bab 61 - Bab 70

 Nikolai's Pov The call was from Rem. Elias Castro had taken one of our lieutenants. A man named Farrell, midlevel, not irreplaceable but loyal and not deserving of whatever was happening to him in whatever location Castro had chosen. The terms of the demand were simple. Farrell released in exchange for Ace delivered to a specified location within twenty four hours. I ended the call and looked at Ivan and Ace. "Castro has Farrell," I said. "He wants Ace in exchange." Ace went very still. "No," I said, before either of them could speak. "The answer is no. We are not trading Ace for anyone." "Farrell," Ivan said. "We are going to get Farrell out," I said. "Not by trading Ace. By going in." I spent three hours with Rem and the team building the extraction plan. The location Castro had in

Nikolai's PovThe warehouse had three rooms and I was in the third one.They had been careful. Professional enough to use zip ties instead of rope, professional enough to position a guard at the door at all times, professional enough to check every two hours. What they had not been careful enough to do was empty my left boot.The blade was small and it took forty minutes to work into position with my hands behind my back and another twenty to use it effectively. By the time I had the zip ties off my wrists my hands were not functioning well and the guard at the door had already started his check cycle twice.I waited for the third cycle.When it opened I moved.What followed was not something I would describe in detail afterward. I was in the warehouse for three more hours, working systematically through the people the Rossi family had left to manage the situation. By the time I walked out the front I had what I needed and none of them were going to be a problem.I called Rem from t

 Ivan's Pov The doctor had just finished stitching up my wound when I heard them talking through the slightly open bedroom door. Ace and his uncle, the man who had ordered the attack that nearly killed me. "Kill the twins and inherit everything, or watch them die," the uncle's voice was cold, calculating. My blood ran cold. I waited, my breath held, for Ace's response. There was silence for a moment, too long. "I... I need to think about it," Ace finally said, his voice barely audible. Rage unlike anything I'd ever known surged through me. He was considering it? Even for a second? After everything we'd been through? I pushed past the doctor, ignoring the pain in my shoulder. The bedroom door slammed open under my hand, hitting the wall with a bang. Ace jumped, turning to face me with wide eyes. His uncle simply raised an eyeb

 Ace's Pov The assault hit the east side at four in the morning. Nikolai had been awake for it. I had been awake for it. Ivan was awake for it despite the shoulder and the instructions and the fact that he was supposed to be in bed. The three of us were in the main corridor when Rem's voice came through on Nikolai's phone.  "East side breach. Three men through the service entrance." "Position," Nikolai said. "Third floor service corridor. Moving toward the residential level." Nikolai looked at Ivan. Ivan looked at me. "You stay back," Nikolai said to me. "No," I said. He looked at me. "I have been trained," I said. "I have been in the building for four months. I know every exit on this floor, I know how to move and I am not waiting in a r

 Ivan's Pov Nikolai sent me the compound name at five in the morning and I started moving. The compound was a modified derivative of something that had been used in Eastern European contract work for about a decade. It was not common but it was not impossible to find.  The antidote existed. The people who had it were specific. I called three contacts before six. Two had what I needed in principle. One had it in location. The location was a warehouse on the north side of the city run by a pharmaceutical black market operation that had been doing business with both sides of the criminal network for years without taking a position.  They did not care about the Rossi war. They cared about payment. I took the payment and drove north. Rem offered backup and I took two of his people because I was still