Noah I turned off the computer and got up from my desk, took my phone and slipped it into my pocket while I checked the time on my watch. I had asked Giovanni, my guard since Dad had retired, to gather all the guards of the house in the big hall while he stayed in the library to check on Mia and Irina who were there. It was my first day and dealing with everything that was really commanding was difficult. I had spent hours studying all my dad's data, the various agreements and the notes he had left me written with possible alliances. He had left an interesting note about a new boss in town, and it had intrigued me, not a little. It seemed that the new boss was very shrewd and intelligent. He had been weaving a web for years, and only now was he starting to emerge. But no one knew him,

