The Devil In White
Heavy and suffocating, but it was mine.
Marco stepped forward and handed me a small box. Inside lay my father’s ring, still stained with blood from yesterday. I stared at it for a long moment, then picked it up. The metal was cold, the weight immense. A symbol of power. Of duty. Of vengeance.
I slipped it onto my finger. The boy they had known was gone. I was no longer just Adrian Moretti, the son. I was Adrian Moretti, the man they would learn to fear.
Luca clapped a hand on my shoulder. “You’re going to be a storm, Adrian. A real storm.”