Chapter 19 - Ricardo Learns The Real Truth
The heavy steel door of the bunker shuddered violently as someone slammed a heavy explosive charge against the exterior keypad.
I scrambled backward, grabbing a heavy metal wrench from the tool chest just as the reinforced door blew inward with a deafening blast.
Smoke billowed into the room, obscuring my vision until a tall figure stepped through the hazy wreckage holding a silenced weapon.
It wasn't an anonymous hitman; it was Dominic Moretti—Ricardo’s trusted uncle and senior advisor within the New York syndicate.
“Well, well, the little runaway waitress who caused a war,” Dominic sneered, raising his pistol directly toward my chest.
“You’re the one who ordered my brother’s murder in Chicago,” I said, my voice shaking with rage as I gripped the metal wrench.
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“Julian was poking around accounts that didn't belong to him, just like you are now,” Dominic smiled coldly, tightening his finger on the trigger.
Before he could fire, a gunshot cracked behind him, and Dominic dropped his weapon as blood spurted from his shattered shoulder.
