Bound by Vows and Vendetta
The target: Club Basilica — a high-end front run by Don Silvano Velluto, a New Cosa sympathizer who once sent her a wedding gift laced with cyanide.
He wouldn't get the chance to apologize.
They entered during peak hours, no announcement, no mercy. By the time the first scream shattered glass, it was already over.
The Ash Blades didn’t spare DJs, waitresses, lieutenants, or lovers. They painted the gold-tiled floors red and left one message burned into the wall in accelerant:
THE QUEEN DOES NOT KNEEL. SHE BURNS.
When the security footage reached Lorenzo’s war room, Matteo just whispered, “Madonna.”