The Don's Wife, The Brother's Whore
I sat alone with a drink in my hand and the reports spread across my desk, though by now I knew every number on those pages well enough to recite them without looking.
The warehouse loss still hadn’t settled properly. One shipment recovered, another delayed, two routes compromised, and too many men speaking to me with the careful tone people used when they were afraid of saying the wrong thing. The fight between Damien and Sokolov had reached me days ago. I had listened to the report without interrupting, then asked for it again from a different source just to hear whether the details changed.
They didn’t.
Damien had gone after Victor like a man who had forgotten his own limits. Victor had t