After the fire at the Caruso house, New York changed hands faster than anyone expected.Don Angelo was dead. Vivian was missing. Most of the Caruso captains had either been captured, killed, or forced to kneel before the new Bellandi name.Matteo did not give them time to gather courage.With the men he had built in secret and the old Bellandi loyalists who came out of hiding after his name was restored, he took control of the Caruso ports, clubs, warehouses, and security routes within three weeks. A few men resisted at first. They called him a pit man, a traitor, a boy pretending to be a Don.After the first two disappeared, no one repeated it in public.By the end of the month, the Caruso family existed in name only.Matteo sat in Don Angelo's old office one rainy afternoon, signing orders over a desk that had once belonged to the man he killed, when Luca came in with a file."Boss," he said, "we found her."Matteo's pen stopped.Luca placed several photographs on the desk.The first
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