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Chapter 1

When I still hadn't submitted my orders, Lorenzo frowned and told me to hurry."Emily and I have already locked in access to the central estate. Move it. Pick a border outpost and take it over."I stared at the decoy coordinates marked in red on the tactical terminal and felt nothing.I'd gotten top marks on the family's live-fire evaluation, better than I'd ever done in a combat drill.I was more than capable of running the central defense grid they'd just been fighting over.But once the evaluation was over, nobody asked about the wound on my arm.When the results were posted, nobody cared about my firepower rating, either.All because the moment Emily left the smoke-filled training ground, she'd burst into frightened tears."Those explosions were so scary. My hands have gone all weak. How am I supposed to get away if we're attacked?"My mother said a firepower rating didn't mean anything. If they had to, they'd spend a fortune on an entire mercenary unit to protect her.Lorenzo just

Chapter 2

Once the tactical orders were sent, Lorenzo assigned Emily and me our weapons and supplies.Emily finished checking her list and nestled against Lorenzo's shoulder."I knew you loved me best, Lorenzo. You even saved the newest portable gas grenades for me."Out of habit, she turned and asked me, "Selena, how much firepower did Lorenzo give you?"I opened my encrypted terminal and answered flatly, "Two crates of old grenades."Emily's pretty face broke into a smile.She still put on a show of concern."Lorenzo must have been worried you'd misuse the heavy weapons and draw the enemy in, so he gave me the armored car."Selena, if you ever run into trouble you can't handle, just call for backup on my channel."Lorenzo pinched her cheek fondly."That car's your reward for passing the evaluation. It has top-level armor, so you can drive it without a worry!"Then he turned and glanced my way."As for you, your reflexes are worse than Emily's in every way. Once you're on the front line, watch

Chapter 3

I forced down dinner. Every bite tasted like sawdust.Afterward, Lorenzo showed up on the terrace with two freshly mixed drinks.Two glasses of tequila packed with ice.He handed one to Emily and pushed the other toward me.Emily took a small sip and smiled at him."You know exactly what I like. Before a firefight, you need a stiff drink for courage!"I stared at the tequila and felt the cold seep through the glass into my hand.When I first came back to the family, before I'd seen what Emily was capable of, Lorenzo had promised to be a good brother and treat us both the same. Back then, he would shield me from scornful looks at dinner and comfort me on stormy nights, when I still felt like a stranger in that house. It all ended the day Emily threw herself down the stairs on purpose and, covered in blood, sobbed that I'd pushed her. The brother who'd promised to treat us equally wouldn't hear a word in my defense. He slapped me in front of everyone.Even knowing he didn't trust me, I s

Chapter 4

After I switched off the radio, I calmly started packing up my things in the safe house.I only took a few black tactical outfits I could move easily in. I could get heavy armor on the black market in North Africa.Everything else, including the cheap ring Lorenzo had once tossed me, I left on the table.But when I pried open the combination lock on my hidden compartment, the waterproof bag I'd stuffed full was empty.The three million dollars in Swiss bank bearer notes I'd kept inside it had vanished.I searched every corner of the safe house, even the air ducts, and found nothing.How could bearer notes just vanish?I gripped my gun and was about to run a program to trace the intruder when someone kicked the blast door open.Emily strolled in without a care, fingering a blood diamond necklace."Isn't it pretty? Mom just had a black-market dealer send it over. It's super rare. It cost three million dollars."That was exactly how much was missing from my compartment.I turned in disbel

Chapter 5

Meanwhile, at the central estate in Sicily.In the bulletproof glass conference room on the top floor, cigar smoke curled through the air as guests swirled champagne in their glasses.Nearly every mob boss and leader of the allied crews had shown up.Lorenzo worked the room in a custom-tailored suit. Mary kept Emily close, proudly showing her off to the society ladies. "This girl of mine has our family's blood running through her veins! Bullets were flying everywhere that day. Any other girl would've been terrified, but not her. She directed the bodyguards to cover her without batting an eye." Mary laughed behind her hand and bragged to anyone who'd listen about how composed Emily had been under fire."Ms. Caruso, ever since she was little, Emily's had more nerve than any other girl in the mafia. This time she ran the command post like a pro. She's definitely going to be the queen of the underworld someday!"A beefy, bald boss raised his glass in a loud toast.Mary lifted her chin prou

Chapter 6

Lorenzo snatched the holographic console off the table.When he saw the kill count on the screen and Selena's unique biometric code, his tall frame swayed.It was all real.This was the sister he'd so casually dismissed as nothing but cannon fodder.This was the woman he'd belittled for supposedly having slower reflexes than Emily.And she was a legendary killer whose name would go down in mafia history! Mary staggered back. It really was her daughter.Mary had poured the family's resources into boosting Emily's command score. Now that meager score looked ridiculous beside Selena's.Worse, just minutes earlier, Lorenzo had told the society ladies of Sicily he wished they'd never brought Selena back into the family.The whispers around them cut deep."That mother must be blind. She had a top-tier hit woman at home and treated her like a servant?""If you ask me, she was so taken with that fake daughter that she buried her own daughter's record. Now she's made a fool of herself!""Steali

Chapter 7

The armed smuggling boat cut through the dark sea.From the window, I watched Sicily fade behind us. Ahead lay the scorching North African coast and its crowded markets.I leaned against the steel hull that reeked of engine oil, watching the sun rise in the distance, and felt as if I'd been reborn.It was like cutting out a tumor that had been rotting inside me for five years.It hurt, but at least I'd never have to breathe in the stench of their hypocrisy again.In September, even the North African wind carried the sharp smells of gunpowder and spices.When I hopped off the boat with my light tactical bag, a contact from the area's biggest black-market arms dealer was already waiting at the dock."You must be Selena. New in town? Who do you run with?"The contact approached with a shrewd smile."Independent dark web access.""Good Lord, an S-rank VIP! Our boss sent me to pick you up. Come on, the armored car's over there!" When we reached his estate, Vito, the local warlord, welcomed

Chapter 8

Three months later, Lorenzo paid a fortune to a few low-level smugglers and tracked me down to my neighborhood.After a burst of gunfire, I came down from the sniper tower with my gun and found Lorenzo disarmed and pinned to the ground by my people.After just a few months apart, he looked like the life had been drained out of him.His jaw was covered in stubble, and his expensive custom suit was coated in North African dust.The moment he saw my face, his eyes reddened, and he struggled to reach me."Selena! I finally found you!"I took half a step back and watched, unmoved, as my men held him down."Did you come here to die?"Lorenzo froze, and his usual arrogance gave way to a pleading smile."Selena, come back to Sicily with me. The family business is a total mess."Mom blames herself every day. Her eyes are almost swollen shut from crying."I lifted his chin with the barrel of my gun, my voice cold. "What does that have to do with me?""How can you look at me like that! I'm your o

Chapter 9

I ignored her and brushed imaginary dust off my tactical suit.Then I raised my eyes and looked at her as if she were already dead."What bigger picture? I was your cheap hired muscle for five years. Now I've just moved somewhere I can do what I want. What's wrong with that?"Emily had no answer. Red-faced and humiliated, she jabbed a finger in my face."You're cold and heartless! I knew no one could ever get through to you. Deep down, you're a killing machine, and leaving the family has shown everyone who you really are!"Lorenzo's been so busy looking for you that he hasn't had the heart to go to the negotiations with the Russians. Mom's sick. And you still won't come back? How can you sleep at night?""That's their own fault for being useless."I tucked the map into my vest and walked back to the armored car without looking back."And if you ever block my convoy again, I'll turn every last one of you into mincemeat."Emily screamed in fury behind me, but with my people's guns pointe

Chapter 10

Five years flew by.My code name topped the High Table's list of incoming elders.In all that time fighting in North Africa, I'd seized every major smuggling route I could.I'd also built three independent armed bases and, with my people, monopolized the intercontinental arms trade.I was no longer the unpaid muscle huddled in a shabby Sicilian armory, swallowing every insult to beg my family for a scrap of attention.I'd forged the hardest armor, crushed countless obstacles, and built a dark empire of my own.My share of the profits could buy any number of estates like the one in Sicily.Now and then, I took my yacht into the Mediterranean just to feel the wind.I carried the deadliest new weapons and wore top-of-the-line tactical gear that fit me perfectly.I lived completely free, 10,000 times happier than I'd ever been in all five years with the Caruso family.The elders had also tried to contact me a few times.After a string of bad calls, Lorenzo lost his territory to rivals. Wit

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