CHAPTER 5
"I really hoped you wouldn't be this good at accounting, Sienna," Agent Vance said softly, pulling a suppressed pistol from his jacket with calm precision.
Sienna froze, her body tensing as she realized that the deadbeat ex-husband, the mountain of debt, and the target on Matteo’s empire were all orchestrated pieces of a far larger game.
"You're working for the Moretti syndicate," Sienna gasped, her mind connecting the dots with horrifying clarity as the marshals closed in.
"The DeLuca empire controls eighty percent of the Midwest shipping ports," Vance explained smoothly. "Matteo refused to let our cartel partners run narcotics through his logistics network. He had to be removed, and you were the perfect, naive tool to do it."
"You set me up to take the fall for his murder," Sienna realized, her heart pounding violently against her ribs.
"And now, unfortunately, Agent Hayes died tragically during a violent breakout attempt by DeLuca's remaining loyalists," Vance said, raising the weapon to her forehead.
Suddenly, a deafening explosion shattered the reinforced glass of the two-way mirror, showering the observation room in sharp, deadly shards.
Matteo DeLuca burst through the shattered frame, his hands free from the handcuffs, using his massive frame to tackle both corrupt marshals into the wall.
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He snapped the neck of the first marshal before he could pull his trigger, slamming the second face-first into the concrete floor with brutal efficiency.
Sienna didn't hesitate; she kicked Vance’s arm upward as he fired, sending the suppressed round wild into the ceiling panels above.
