Chapter 171

He had five men in the car, more than enough for what the job entailed, and though he had believed everything Gia said over the phone, he knew he still had to be on the safe side, so he had three other vans behind him, undercover.

Axel could hear her muffling in the booth, Contessa Venditti; oh, how he hated her; she was the only one who had seen through him throughout his years living in their house as Venditti's son.

She had noticed his overprotective attitude toward Gia, and when she tried to pull her sister away from him, innocent Gia had trusted him so much and instead created a rift between her and her sister.

She also saw him as a contender for the leadership of the Cartel if Venditti eventually retired; knowing her father, even if there weren't Nathan, he'd instead have given it to the lowest-ranking soldier who was a male than to her.

And all of that had contributed to her hatred towards him.

And all those years, he kept compiling what he was going to