(Jaime’s POV) The two weeks that followed were some of the most stressful in my life as a businessman and leader of the Skulls, but I held myself up pretty well and rose to the challenge of moving on to the next phase of Aaliyah’s genius plan. There was still too much to do—too many loose ends to tie up, too many corrupted remnants of Guillermo Morgenthau’s empire that needed to be swept away and dealt with, but that was all going to be taken care of now that we had the right people in place. I have to admit that I, of course, couldn’t have done any of this without my outstanding team. But even then, we still couldn’t have done it alone. We had the help of the one man I had least expected to rise to the occasion, much less to come to my aid now that we had established ourselves a

