A BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA LORD
If he’d had the diamond, there might be more clues hidden in here.
The laptop was password-protected, but a few keystrokes bypassed that. Amateurs.
As the screen loaded, I plugged in the external drive I’d recovered alongside it. A video immediately popped up. Intrigued, I clicked on it.
The screen flickered, revealing a grainy recording of the detective sitting nervously across from a man. The man’s face was shadowed, but his voice was clear—direct, sharp, and unmistakably French.
He spoke rapidly to the detective, the words incomprehensible to me, though the tone suggested a mix of commands and threats. Then the man slid a thick envelope across the table—money, no doubt.
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