The Mafia Kings' Deadliest Temptation
Rafael studies him a long moment, something unreadable passing behind his eyes, and for a second it seems almost like mercy might follow the confession.
"Alacrán," Adriano repeats, quiet, testing the shape of the word like it might mean something once he says it aloud. Nothing surfaces. Just a name, unfamiliar, dangerous precisely because it's unfamiliar.
"That's not enough," Rafael says finally.
"It's all I have! I told you everything I know!"
Adriano steps forward instead, pulling the gun from his waistband, and without another word, without hesitation, presses it to Fernandez's temple and fires.
The sound is deafening in the enclosed space, blood spraying across the floor, the wall, Rafae