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Chapter 1

I opened my eyes, and my hand instinctively flew to my throat. Only when my fingertips touched bare skin did it finally sink in.There was no wire. Just skin, whole and unbroken.I froze for a second. Then I started gulping down air.My chest heaved as the terror caught up with me.I wasn't dead. I really wasn't dead.I slowly pushed myself up and looked around.According to the calendar on the desk, the cross-border hit was exactly 24 hours away.I clutched my neck, still trembling, and dragged in another breath.Just then, someone knocked on the door.Riccardo came in with a mug of hot cocoa.He set the mug beside my hand and casually rested his hand on my shoulder."Elowen, looks like you pulled another all-nighter.""The route is finalized. Go get some sleep before you run yourself into the ground."He watched me with a soft, intent gaze.I'd grown up with this man, clawing our way through the same mud.Yet in my last life, he'd pressed that gold-plated Browning to my forehead and

Chapter 2

Breakfast was as tense as ever.My father, Don Salvatore Cavallo, sat at the head of the long table, his eyes lowered as he cut into his medium-rare steak."Elowen, Riccardo leads tonight's op, as usual. You stay at the estate and monitor everything from here." He didn't even look up, and his voice was cold. "Dante Rossi and his crew have already scouted the site. All they need now is your exit route."My gaze darkened as I sliced the bread in front of me.In my last life, an hour before the op, Riccardo had come down with acute appendicitis and been rushed to the hospital.Dante had stepped in to take command at the last minute.In the end, Dante and 24 of our best men died in the kill zone, mowed down by the enemy's heavy machine guns.Meanwhile, Riccardo lay in the hospital, cleared of all suspicion. Then he returned to the estate as my interrogator and personally sent me to my death.I finished the bite in my mouth and looked at Riccardo across the table."Riccardo, I hope tonight

Chapter 3

Three p.m.According to the tracker, Riccardo hadn't gone to meet Dante after he left the estate.His car had headed straight south and pulled into a private golf club on the coast.The club was in Sophia's name.I sent someone to pull the club's security footage. Then I sat down in front of the monitors in the war room and opened the dark-web monitoring dashboard.Ten minutes earlier, the thirty-million-dollar listing had been updated with a new attachment.The attachment detailed a brand-new backup escape route through a rail maintenance tunnel.The price had gone up to 50 million.And at the same time, an offshore shell account in Sophia's name had received a 20-million-dollar down payment.The money came from our sworn enemies, the Guerra family.A cold laugh escaped me.Just then, there was another knock at the door.It was Dante."Consigliere, Riccardo sent me to pick up the final escape plan."Dante stood in front of the desk, looking serious.I looked at the scar on his face.I

Chapter 4

Silence fell over the hall. Even the men who'd been speaking up for Riccardo looked stunned.My father stubbed out his cigar and fixed Riccardo with a cold stare."Faking sick right before an op. What are you running from?"Riccardo struggled to lift his head."Don, I didn't know there was anything wrong with the shot. Elowen's setting me up!""Whether it's a setup or not, we'll get to the bottom of it after the op."My father gave the order in a cold voice: "Riccardo is relieved of command. Elowen takes over tonight. Lock him in the cells for now.""Father, wait."I turned to my father."If he chose to fake being sick right before the op, then someone's definitely waiting to back him up tonight. Lock him up now, and we'll only tip them off.""Father, let me take him with me in the armored SUV we're using as a command vehicle. As long as his car pulls out of the estate on schedule, whoever's hiding in the shadows will think everything's going according to plan."My father thought it ov

Chapter 5

In the passenger seat, Riccardo couldn't hold back a laugh."Elowen! You think you're the only one in the world with a brain!"He lifted his chin and stared right at me."You think I didn't know you were playing me? You think Sophia's really dumb enough to trust coordinates you left lying around on purpose? We knew those coordinates were bait all along!""The Guerra family was never after the field team tonight, or this car! They're after that old bastard!""As long as that old bastard dies at the estate tonight, it won't matter if Dante's crew gets shot to pieces out there! The Cavallo family will be leaderless. Once the Guerra men arrive, who could stop us from taking over?"I listened to him taunt me without batting an eye.The first rule I learned during my 20 years in Sicily's underworld was this:When your enemy thinks he's shown you every card in his hand, that's when he's closest to his own funeral."Riccardo, barking like that doesn't hide how nervous you are."I kept tuning t

Chapter 6

On the way, the drug still seemed to be affecting Riccardo.A thin sheen of sweat covered his forehead."Elowen... when did you figure it out? Or did you never trust me in the first place?"I kept my eyes on the road, my hands steady on the wheel. My voice didn't waver. "From the moment you snuck into my study at two in the morning, I had every detail of tonight planned out: every traitor and how each one would die.""You really are ruthless... 20 years together, and you're just going to watch me die?""Spare me the sentiment, Riccardo. You're the one who betrayed the family."He didn't say another word. I yanked the wheel, and the SUV fishtailed onto the main drive leading up to the estate.By the time I got there, the estate's iron gates had been blown into twisted scrap and were hanging off to one side.The once-smooth lawn was pocked with craters. The whole place was chaos.Thick smoke was pouring from my father's study on the top floor of the main house.Empty magazines and discar

Chapter 7

The second I walked in, thick gun smoke hung in the great hall.The bodies of two of my father's bodyguards lay on the rug, their chests riddled with bullet holes.Seven or eight gunmen from the Guerra family were pushing up toward the second-floor study with submachine guns, taking turns covering each other.At the top of the spiral staircase, Matteo, my father's longtime butler, was the only one left. He returned fire with a handgun from behind a ballistic barricade, but the sound of his shots was growing fainter.I looked up and saw that Matteo had been shot in the shoulder. Blood had soaked through the entire sleeve of his suit jacket.One of the Guerra gunners raised his rifle with a vicious grin, ready to move in and finish him off.I moved in from the side, submachine gun in hand.But the two Guerra gunmen at the rear sensed something was wrong. They spun around and aimed at the entrance."Who's there?"Their only answer was a burst of gunfire.I kept the submachine gun up and d

Chapter 8

Sophia's pupils contracted.She took in the blood on my trench coat and the smoke curling from the barrel of my gun, and she stumbled back."No... this is impossible! The Guerra family gave me their word! They sent 200 men!""They even blocked your backup escape route. How did you make it back?!""That backup route?"I gave her a mocking smile."You mean the rail maintenance tunnel I filled with 800 gallons of jet fuel?""By now, there's probably nothing left in there but rubble."Sophia staggered, then froze where she stood.Right then, the study door creaked open from the inside.I looked up. It was Vito Moretti, the Guerra family's field commander.The scarred, middle-aged man emerged holding my father hostage. Blood streamed down my father's face.Vito jammed a Desert Eagle against my father's temple and gave me a vicious grin."Consigliere Cavallo, you really do live up to your reputation.""But take one more step, and I'll blow this old man's head off!"My father's face was ashen

Chapter 9

The smell of gun smoke was fading in the hallway.Matteo, clutching his wound, came out from behind cover and steadied my father.My father leaned against the wall, breathing hard. He looked at the wreckage on the floor, then at me."Elowen..." His voice was hoarse, still trembling from the ordeal. "Tonight... what exactly happened here?"I didn't answer. I motioned for the men beside me to restrain Sophia.Then I picked up Sophia's phone, pulled up the group chat she'd failed to delete, and handed it to my father."Father, take a look."My father started scrolling, his expression hard.The screen showed messages documenting Sophia's conspiracy with the Guerra leaders, along with the receipt for the 20-million-dollar down payment.There was also a detailed plan for luring the Cavallo family's main force into a trap and wiping them out. It was all there, laid bare.My father's face grew darker and darker.Sobbing, Sophia rushed toward my father and clung to him desperately."Father! No!

Chapter 10

Click. The car doors unlocked.I pulled the door open. The wind swept in, carrying away the heavy smell of blood.Riccardo sat in the passenger seat.At the sound of the door opening, he slowly raised his head and leaned back against the window, a faint smile on his face."The Guerra family lost, right?" His voice was perfectly calm."Yes. They're all dead."I raised an eyebrow and braced one hand on the car door, looking down at him."Sophia's locked in the cells. I killed every man the Guerra family brought."Riccardo closed his eyes and exhaled slowly."You really are the same old Elowen."He gave a faint, self-deprecating smile."I've known since I was ten that as long as you're around, nobody can take your place.""Then why did you do it?"I stood there in the wind, staring at him in confusion."Why?"Riccardo turned to face me, his eyes full of ambition and arrogance."Because I'm not some guard dog you people keep on a chain!""Elowen, for 20 years, after every firefight, every

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