HEIR OF PAIN
His mind, however, was replaying the past.
He had been ten years old when everything changed. His father, head of the feared Shadow Cartel, was the most powerful mafia leader in the country. Strong, untouchable, respected. Until that night.
Until Deluca Dinte.
Ryder could still remember standing in the grand hall of their mansion as men carried in his father’s body—cold, lifeless, drenched in his own blood. His mother had collapsed in shock, and Ryder had stood frozen, too young to understand but old enough to feel hatred bloom in his chest.