~Nicolai POV~
I was happy to be back in New York, even if it was for one night, and I was otherwise preoccupied with mafia business and some unexpected house cleaning business that Dallas, my Diamonds club manager had saddled me with regarding one of my men. I was meeting with the three Mafia heads that were financing this little Bernardi Coup at the old factory off of Queens. I knew these fuckers were going to want an update on the Suez Canal, and I was smart enough to know I could not tell them that I had s**t, and that Victor had out best me, so I had to play the game. I still can’t believe that Victor was able to outmaneuver me. I thought I had thought of all possibilities. I had turned some of his close men, kidnapped him and had hacked into his Bernardi Mafia mainframe on the Estat
