The Don's Ruthless Empire
"Protecting a name now only delays the inevitable, Pietro. Give us something, and we can still protect you."
Pietro closed his eyes, and for a long, terrible moment, I believed he might refuse entirely. Then his shoulders sank, defeat finally overtaking fear. "It was not Vittorio directly who asked me. It was someone claiming to speak for him, someone I had never met before that single conversation."
"Describe them," Matteo said immediately.
I watched Pietro closely as he searched his memory, terror still shadowing his features, and I found myself hoping desperately that this single description might finally give us something solid to follow instead of another circle of suspicion closing in