If the secret of the "Battle of Northriver Southside" were to reach the ears of the wrong people, it wouldn't just be the Lee Family that would be annihilated. The Sutton Family, and anyone else within a ten-mile radius of this conversation, would be reduced to ash.
That battle was a curse. Ignorance was bliss; knowledge was a death sentence. Knowing about the Ring of Divine Retribution and the involvement of Tiger Ray meant living in eternal, suffocating fear.
Ron Lee regretted it. He regretted coming here today. He regretted being born. But most of all, he regretted ever opening his mouth about that day to his father while Mitch Lee was listening.
"Grandmaster?" Jack Brooks sneered, his voice cutting through Ron's panic. "Just an ant. I will avenge my mother, Lana Way. I want to see w
