Chapter 13 - The Betrayal Unmasked
The victory at the council table was short-lived. Three nights later, late into the evening, digital security alarms began flashing red across the Rossi headquarters.
Tessa was reviewing supply manifests in the private study when Gabriel rushed in, his face grim, a suppressed pistol gripped in his hand.
“Bruno,” Gabriel spat out. “He’s been leaking our dock schedules to the Moretti family. He’s setting up an ambush at the central warehouse tonight to overthrow the council while my father is vulnerable.”
“We can’t just launch a frontal assault,” Tessa said quickly, standing up from her desk. “That’s what they expect. They’re walking into a trap.”
“What do you mean?”
“Bruno is arrogant. He thinks I’m just a girl playing mobster,” Tessa said, a cunning, brilliant smile touching her lips. “Let me make a phone call.”
Using an encrypted burner line, Tessa contacted Bruno directly, mimicking the exact tone and cadence of a high-ranking Moretti enforcer she had overheard at the docks. Speaking in rapid, coded Sicilian slang, she convinced Bruno that the Moretti leadership was planning to betray him and take all the profits for themselves, urging him to redirect his loyalists to an abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of the city.
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The trap was set with surgical precision.
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