Chapter 160

Giovanni

The silence in my office was never just silence.

It was a weapon. A weight. A promise.

The last thing that I would have expected was to send men following her, the one woman that I expected to never betray me. But if her mother had done so, why was I surprised when she did?

I took a whiff of the cigarette that I had in my hand before blowing it. I waited as I listened. My arms crossed, one foot tapping idly against the marble floor, while one of my men, a lower enforcer I didn’t bother to remember the name of, stood with sweat sliding down the back of his neck.

Of course he was afraid. She was the last person that he wanted to find himself crossing.

But after that new made Mira I believed died, I knew that I was going to need to put a stop to everything that was around. I knew that I was going to need to keep an eye on her, though she did not admit it. I was no fool. I knew that she was going to be the one person who would be able