"Reuben was always a small-time thug," Celia dismissed him with a wave of her hand. "If he folded, it means he’s weak. But this... this complicates things. Who did Dante use to break him?"
"It doesn't matter," Stefan said, turning around. "Because Reuben isn't the biggest fish in Monterio, If we want to end this, we stop playing with street gangs. We go to the top. We call Collin Fisher.”
The name hung in the air like a death sentence. Collin Fisher was the shadow king, a man whose elite forces operated with the precision of a private army.
"Fisher doesn't take sides in family squabbles," Celia noted.
"He does if he thinks someone is encroaching on his territory," Stefan countered. "We tell him Dante is trying to seize the valley through Reuben. We bring Collins in to 'clean up' the si
