~Nicolai POV~
I looked down at my phone and read Cas’s text message about Victor proposing a meeting tonight at the warehouse near the docks. I smiled in satisfaction. It was no small thing to have the Head of all Heads initiating a meeting with the likes of me. Especially when he had made sure to reduce me to nothing more than a two-bit, bare belly, low-level mobster sucking on his t**s to get a taste. That’s what the treaty Victor and I signed by blood at Don Valenza’s sit-down had reduced me to, and now he was coming to me palms up to negotiate a deal to save his poor “wife” and his mafia from open war.
I had all the leverage here. No one would believe Bella acted alone in her attempt to end my life and would see this incident as a clear violation of the treaty. Knowing the three-hea
