UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD
Didn't understand the layers Dante was operating on.
By the time Dimitri figured out what was actually going on, it would be far too late.
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POV: JAMES CONLEY
The apartment in the Lower East Side was nondescript.
That was the point.
James stood in front of the mirror, looking at his reflection, forty-two years old, scarred, built like someone who'd spent his entire life preparing for war. Which, essentially, he had.
Twenty years in the Marines. Another eight working for Dimitri. Countless missions, countless scars, countless moments where he'd stared death in the face and refused to blink.