Claimed By The Mafia Boss
“Do I look weak to you?”
Silence. Heads dropped. No one dared answer.
I set the glass down and spoke evenly. “They planted a bomb near my men. That isn’t business. That’s personal. And I don’t tolerate personal.”
Matteo asked carefully, “Retaliation?”
I turned my eyes on him. “More than that. A message.”
Hours later, night had fallen. We moved quiet, sharp, fast. The Russians had gotten sloppy, too confident. Their top man in the city — Viktor Sokolov — was at his mistress’s apartment, drunk off cheap vodka, his guards playing cards in the kitchen.