All Chapters of THE MAFIA'S BLOODY POSSESSION: Chapter 71 - Chapter 77

 Nikolai's Pov The evidence package was detailed. Rem sent it within the hour. The police had video from the secondary building exterior, eyewitness accounts from two Rossi men who had survived the east side breach and identified Ace by description, and a digital trail that connected Ace to the building that had been used as a staging ground. None of it was fabricated. Most of it was accurate. The interpretation being applied to it was wrong. I sat at the desk in the secondary building and went through it and built the counter case. Ivan sat across from me and worked his side of it. He had contacts inside the department that I did not have and he used them carefully over the course of the day.  By evening we had the shape of the alternative. A man named Castor Reyes. Midlevel Rossi operator who had been in the area durin

 Ivan's Pov Castro was in the penthouse when we got there. He was sitting in one of the main chairs with his hands visible and the lights on and he looked at us the way men look when they have already decided how something ends. "Nephews," he said. Nikolai said nothing. I said nothing. "You were always going to find me," Castro said and leaned forward with his elbows on his knees. "I did not come here to hide. I came here because this is where it ends. The penthouse, the family building, the city your father built." He spread his hands. "It felt appropriate." "You had inside help," Nikolai said. "In the facility." "I did," Castro said. "People are loyal to whoever pays them properly." "We know who it was," I said. "They are already handled." Something moved in Castro's face but he kep

Ace's PovThe rooftop was cold and the city was just starting to get light at the edges and I stood at the railing and held my mother's letter and read it again.I folded the letter and put it in my jacket pocket.The hit was ordered by their father. They were nineteen. They did not know about me. Those were the facts and I had gone over them six times since coming up here, they had not changed.What Nikolai had done was carry the knowledge of those facts for four months without telling me and that was the part I was sitting with.I heard the roof door.I did not turn around."We said we would give you time," Ivan said, "but you have been up here for two hours and I cannot verify your body temperature from inside."I almost laughed. "I am not cold.""You are visibly cold," he said. "Nikolai would have said the same thing but he sent me because he thought you would be less likely to tell me to go away.""He was right," I said.Ivan came and stood beside me at the railing.Nikolai came