All Chapters of THE MAFIA PRINCE AND HIS BODYGUARD: Chapter 71

Chapter 71We didn’t go straight to the private wing.First there was Elena in the main hall, pale and furious and alive, confirming every attacker was accounted for and every system locked down harder than before. Then Luca with a short, grim report and the quiet understanding that the bodies at the cathedral would never become stories. I gave the necessary orders. I looked every remaining loyal face in the eye and told them the contingency was finished. No more heirs in the dark. No more letters. The old ghosts were ash.Only after all of that did I let myself look at Kai properly.He had cleaned the cut on his cheek but hadn’t changed out of the clothes still marked by the night. He stood a few feet away, watching me work, patient in the way only he could be after violence. When the last person left the room he didn’t move. He simply waited until I crossed the space and stopped in front of him.“Upstairs,” I said.His eyes darkened. “Lead the way.”The door to our rooms shut with a